AutoConvert now understands and converts common currency names, e.g. Dollar, Yen, Yuan, Rupee. In case of ambiguous names like the Dollar, similar conversion conditions apply as to their currency symbols ($).
Alternate names and spellings are supported for some currencies, e.g. Ruble/Rouble and Yuan/Renminbi.
Other updates
Added support for converting hectares.
Fixed a bug that affecting converted dates when converting time zone across dates.
AutoConvert now supports converting time zone for a range of time. Values in a time ranges may be separated by a dash or to. Each time value may also specify a different date.
Relative time
Time zone conversion also shows relative time from now, e.g. in an hour.
Time now
AutoConvert window always shows current time in all your time zones. For non-supporters, the time in current/home time zone is displayed.
Reorder your time zones
Reorder your time zones on the options page by dragging and dropping them to show in your preferred order.
New: Support for system dark mode
AutoConvert now supports system light and dark modes where supported by Chrome—currently on Windows and macOS. Extension window theming is only available to supporters at the moment.
New: Currency conversion upgrades
European number formats
Currency conversion recognises European number format (comma as decimal marker, period as thousands separator) for conversion. Conversion of values when space is used as separator works only when decimal digits are also specified.
Scale large value names—trillions, billions, and millions
AutoConvert now automatically scales values specified in trillions, billions and millions to show the appropriate output value.
Currency conversions are usually rounded to two decimal places. But if the converted value is less than 0.01, AutoConvert now shows as many digits as required to show a non-zero value.
Updates
Conversions to yard will now also show converted values in feet.
*F and *C will be converted as Fahrenheit and Celsius, respectively.
Two single quotes, '', will be converted as inches, not as feet.
Update to app architecture
Updated app architecture to support upcoming changes to Chrome extensions APIs. These changes also make the extension lighter, though they may adversely impact the speed of first conversion.
Bug fixes
Supporter subscription did not update sometimes. Fixed.
Changes to some settings did not apply till browser was restarted. Fixed.
Certain unit and currency conversions displayed incorrect decimal digits. Fixed.
Premium supporter membership is now available in AutoConvert Select.
Becoming a supporter helps fund continued maintenance and development of the extension. It also helps me determine if there is a genuine value being delivered by AutoConvert, and direct focus on requests from supporting users.
There are three levels of supporter memberships available:
Please pick a supporter level that reflects both your ability to pay, and how useful you find AutoConvert.
Features exclusive for premium supporters:
Currency conversion,
Currency rates are also fetched 4x more frequently for premium supporters than trial users
Custom target time zones (coming later), and
Alternate target currency and time zones in extension window
All premium features are available to all premium supporters, irrespective of premium level chosen.
Features available to all users:
Measurement unit conversion, and
Time zone conversion to detected current time zone,
Unlimited unit and time zone conversion from extension window
Free Trial
A free 5-day guest trial enables all premium features. The guest trial period starts when currency conversion is first enabled1.
A 30-day free trial period starts the first time you sign up for a premium supporter membership. This enables all premium features, including more frequent currency rates fetch. First payment is only charged at the end of this 30-day free trial period2.
Starting May 2019, 30-day free trial is no longer available.
The guest trial is now available for 10 days after installation. Currency conversion is available to all users during guest trial. After 10 days, a supporter subscription is required to enable supporter features, including currency conversion, multiple time zones, dark mode, and more…
Some common currency symbols are used by more than one currency. The dollar sign ($) is the most common example – used by the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, and more.
autoConvert will convert values with these common currency symbols based on domain of the website where the value is selected. Domain matching is only used for currency symbols, and not for the three character currency codes.
An example:
‘AUD 20‘ will always be read as Australian Dollars irrespective of the website,
‘$ 20‘ will only be read as Australian Dollars on websites ending in ‘.au‘. Elsewhere it will be read as US Dollars.
The currency symbols covered by domain-matching are:
‘$‘
US Dollar (default)
Canadian Dollar (.ca)
Australian Dollar (.au)
New Zealand Dollar (.nz)
Colombian Peso (.co)
Argentinian Peso (.ar)
Chilean Peso (.cl)
Dominican Peso (.do)
Jamaican Dollar (.jm)
Brazilian Real (.br)
‘£‘
British Pound (default)
Egyptian Pound (.eg)
‘¥‘
Japanese Yen (default)
Chinese Renminbi Yuan (.cn)
‘kr‘
Swedish Krona (default)
Norwegian Krone (.no)
Danish Krone (.dk, .fo)
Icelandic Krone (.is)
‘Rs‘
Sri Lankan Rupee (default)
Pakistani Rupee (.pk)
The top-level-domain (TLD) next to each currency above indicates which websites will use that currency for the relevant symbol. When the domain does not match that TLD, the default currency will be used.
That’s all, folks!
Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.
A free trial of Currency conversion is now available to all users
Currency conversion is a premium feature, but is now available as a free trial to all users. It shall stay free for at least 30 days for everyone.
One-time conversion to other currency or time-zone
autoConvert converts currencies to your default currency (you may change this on the options page), and time to your local time zone (from browser).
For those times when you may want to convert to another currency, there are now two extra buttons available in the popup:
Change target currency
Change target time zone
Use them to change currency, or time zone, for the current conversion.
The currency and time zone specified here is only used for the current conversion in the popup. When the popup is closed and opened again, it goes back to converting to the default currency, and the home time zone. Conversion by selection on a web page always uses the default currency and home time zone.
This is a premium feature, but is available to all users during the free trial.
Conversions appear in original order
Conversions appear in original order – both on web pages, and in the popup.
Earlier, they were ordered as time conversions, followed by currency conversions, followed by unit conversions. This forced sort order has now been removed.
Irrespective of the type of conversion – time, currency or unit – they will appear in the same order as in the text selected/typed.
Other minor updates
‘tbs‘ is now parsed as ‘tablespoons‘
Removed permission for reading clipboard contents
Minor bug fixes
That’s all, folks!
Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.
Two changes in this update – a minor tweak for pound/stone-using users, and announcing first currency conversion trial.
Convert mass to both stones and pounds
Some countries measure weight in pounds, others prefer stones. In the old extension there was a setting to decide which unit to use. In autoConvert Select, both values are now shown. Simple.
Currency conversion trial
Currency conversion is now available in autoConvert select. However, it’s currently in trial mode, and available only to a small (randomly selected) fraction of users.
I am not very comfortable about the durability of the exchange rates source I am using. So, I have restricted this feature to a small number of users. Exchange rates are also fetched only twice a day.
When currency conversion is available, an option to enable it, and to select your home currency will be available in options.
That’s all, folks!
Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.
autoConvert does not work well with many modern websites that use technologies like react, vue or angular. It also tends to slow down some websites ocassionally.
autoConvert Select has been designed to work smoothly with modern web technologies. Being request based, it does not impact website performance either. autoConvert Select even converts time zones! It will be the main extension developed going forward.
autoConvert Select is available on both Chrome and Firefox, and may soon come to Android as well.
Currency conversion
Currency conversion feature has been removed from autoConvert.
The previous (free) source for currency exchange rates was removed by the provider. I have been unable to find another free source, so the feature had to be removed.
I intend to bring the feature back in the new extension – autoConvert Select at some time in the future.
autoConvert deprecation
The old autoConvert extension will be deprecated near the end of 2018.
Unit conversion in autoConvert will continue to function normally as long as you have the extension installed. But there won’t be any new development on the extension.
autoConvert Select is the place to go for that, and more!
Currency conversion in autoConvert seems to have stopped working.
It appears that the (free) API that the extension uses to fetch currency rates was removed. This has broken currency conversion.
I’ll try and look for a new (free) currency rates API tomorrow (Monday, 22 January). If one is available, I’ll update the extension with it. If I can’t find one, I may have to remove currency conversion entirely.
App Updates 