The Bardeen alternative for Chrome
If your job is “fill this form for every row of my spreadsheet”, RowPlay is built for exactly that — free, unmetered and with no account. Record once, paste your rows from Excel, run them all. Bardeen is an AI-powered tool aimed at scraping and lead enrichment, with a credit-metered free plan.
FREE · NO ACCOUNT · NO CREDITS TO TRACK
Short version: Bardeen’s free plan includes 100 credits a month, with scraping and AI actions costing 1–3 credits per row; paid plans start at $10 a month, and you need an account. RowPlay charges nothing per row: paste a thousand rows and run them all, with dry run, retries and a results sheet included, on Chrome or Firefox, with no sign-in.
One macro. Every row of your spreadsheet.
No credits per row, however long your sheet is. Record the task, paste your rows, run.
Three steps
- 1
Record the task once. Fill in the form the way you normally would. Each click and field becomes a step, shown in plain English.
- 2
Paste your rows from Excel and link each field to a column — or drop in a .xlsx or .csv file. A normal table with headers works.
- 3
Dry run, then Run remaining. Check the first row, then RowPlay does the rest, one row at a time, in your own browser.
Test before you commit
Dry run fills just the first row. If it worked, Run remaining carries on from row 2, so nothing is entered twice.
Retry only what failed
A failed row doesn’t stop the batch. Afterwards, one click re-runs just the rows that failed.
Resume after a crash
Progress is saved after every row. If the browser closes mid-run, pick up from the first row that didn’t run.
A results sheet
Your rows come back with a status column, the reason for any failure and any values you extracted — ready to paste into Excel.
Every kind of field
Text, dropdowns (including custom menus), checkboxes from yes/no columns, and fields that only appear when a box is ticked.
Values that fill themselves
{{today}}, {{row}} and {{random}} add dates, row numbers and unique codes without a column.
Full walkthrough: auto-fill web forms from Excel.
RowPlay vs Bardeen
| RowPlay | Bardeen | |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Active and free, for Chrome and Firefox | Active, Chromium browsers only (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera) — no Firefox |
| Free plan | Unlimited — no credits, ever | 100 credits/month, renewed each billing period, unused credits expire |
| Paid plans | None — one free tier, everything included | Basic $10/mo (+100 credits), Premium $50/mo or $480/yr (+1,000–12,000 credits), custom Enterprise |
| How you build an automation | Click record, use the page normally, stop | Recorder mode, a drag-and-drop block builder, or describe it in plain English for AI to generate |
| Looping over data | Paste rows from Excel, no setup, unmetered | Loop over a table/Google Sheets/CSV, metered by credits per row for scraping/enrichment steps |
| Scheduling | Built in, free — 15 minutes to 24 hours, or custom | Autobooks — scheduled or event-based triggers, also credit-metered per run's actions |
| Account required | No | Yes — sign-in required to use the extension at all |
If you're coming from Bardeen
If you're using Bardeen mainly to fill forms or repeat a browser flow across a list — rather than for its AI scraping/lead-enrichment features — the core ideas map over cleanly, without the credit metering:
When Bardeen might suit you better
Where each tool fits
- You need AI scraping or lead enrichment from third-party sources. RowPlay works with what’s on the page and what’s in your spreadsheet.