63 Best Google Chrome Extensions Handpicked For Every Category

Chrome is an excellent browser and is used by millions of users every day because of the timely update and great power pack features. In chrome browser, you can install Chrome extensions that add new functionality in the browser and increase your competence in a countless way.

In Chrome Web Store there is an extension for everyone and for every use case you imagine in case you don’t find a chrome extension to your specific need you can make your own and publish on Chrome Webstore as we did. For how to make a chrome extension you can head over to Google Chrome Developer website after reading this post.

Best Chrome Extensions for Productivity

Increase your efficiency and be more productive, use extensions to ease the process and save time in your workflow.

Todoist

If you are looking for an extension to keep in check your to-do’s then Todoist Chrome Extension is for your, if you are using Todoist then you should also use Todoist chrome extension to better manage your to-do’s. The extension shows a badge with the number of tasks due today. You can even manage all settings of your Todoist Extension.

Grammarly

Grammarly will help you write on the internet without grammar and spelling errors, it will make sure your social media post, your documents and messages go without typo and grammar errors.

Grammarly checks your content on multiple levels to pick errors like by checking the context of the word to predict the correct word, even it suggests words you can use to make your sentence standout. By using this chrome extension you are enabling Grammarly features on all the place where you can write. Grammarly sends you a summary of your mistakes by email so you know where to improve your writing skills.

Block Site

Block sites so you can focus on your work, you can add sites to blocklist that are permanently blocked or you can add them to your work mode list so when you enable work mode then those websites are blocked for a specific time. All adult sites are also disabled by default you can enable them from extension options page if want to. Block site also has an android app so you can sync your website list with mobile too.

Black Menu for Google

This chrome extension gives you quick access to Google services in on single dropdown, you can translate, search on Maps, manage your calendar, add Tasks, edit Keep notes, view Google Analytics, Adsense, Gmail, trends, finance in just one customizable dropdown.

Black menu for Google is a swiss army knife for easy access to Google services, you will be delighted how helpful and time saver this extension is.

FYI

If you keep forgetting where your documents are stored is it in Google drive or in Dropbox or is it in any other cloud storage then FYI is for you it integrates with these websites and provides you one single place from where you can search, manage and share documents easily. FYI makes it possible to manage lots and lots of documents irrespective of where you store them locally on Google drive or in any cloud storage.

Wolfram|Alpha

Instantly search your query from any tab with one click and get your answers from Wolfram|Alpha. Wolfram|Alpha is a mine of knowledge, just ask your queries Wolfram will give you answers. you can select text and right-click to search on Wolfram or you can click on toolbar icon and enter your query there. If you never used wolfram then just enter your country name, city name whatever you have in mind and find how good Wolfram is.

Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides

You can edit Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint without MS Office in your chrome browser, just drag and drop your files in the browser and you can edit and save your documents. supported formats .doc .docx .xls .xlsx .ppt .pptx by this extension.
For Chrome OS user this extension is preinstalled.

Go Back with Backspace

If you hate pressing Ctrl + Left Arrow to go back to the previous page then this extension is for you. ‘Go Back with Backspace’ chrome extension gives the ability to go to the previous page with backspace button.

Best Chrome Extensions for Useful New Tab

Make your new tab from boring to something useful, get inspired and stay focused.

Momentum

Get momentum to start new tab with a beautiful image and your focus on your tasks, momentum is a simple yet powerful extension to manage your new tab, momentum lets you customise your new tab as per your need and shows the information you want it to show by integrating with Asana, Trello, Todoist, GitHub, Wunderlist, Google Tasks and more. You can disable and enable bookmark bar in a new tab.

Earth View from Google

As the name suggests this does extension does exactly that fills your new tab with breathtaking satellite images from Google Earth. You can download and save images to make it your desktop wallpaper, you can check previous satellite images in history option.

If you don’t want to use this extension but want access to all these beautiful images then you should visit g.co/ev where you will find 1500+ images

Best Chrome Extensions for Developers

What Runs

Internet is full of amazing websites, pretty often we want to know what technologies used to make a website. WhatRuns tells you exactly that, it tells you details like what CMS they are using, theme, plugins, Javascript framework, Web framework, Cache, CDN, Programming language, build CI system, Web Server, Analytics, Font, Tag Managers, Advertising. Depending on the website all these options differs.

This information is helpful if you know what to do with this.?

CSS Used

You landed on a website and want to extract a components CSS used you can use this extension. Just install this extension open the developer tools and head to Elements > CSS used tab, select the element on the webpage this extension will give you CSS used by that element.

Also keep in mind this extension is just to extract CSS and use that CSS to edit as per your need, do not rely on this fully because this extension has some limitations also.

Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is a similar extension like WhatRuns although you can use Wappalyzer directly by visiting their website and entering your website name.

Wappalyzer gives you the option to use it as you like the extension is open source on GitHub, you can use it as a Bookmarklet or your own Node Js application.

Speaking of Bookmarklet you can read Best Bookmarklet to use

Amino: Live CSS Editor

If you want to edit CSS of your website with live preview, you can use this extension to do it you don’t need any complex setup for this.

Amino packs feature that you will love like autocomplete, autosave, syntax highlighting, SCSS/Sass support, Sync data with Chrome Sync, Page-level CSS and Domain level CSS, Auto-update CSS, Dark Theme, Export. Don’t forget to enable autosave and auto-update feature from options for a better experience.

You can access your edited CSS in dev tools Elements > Amino
You can use Amino to edit CSS of any website you want and Amino will make them look how you want.

For Example, I just wrote a Badly optimised CSS you can use it to on Hacker News for dark mode just add it to amino at the domain level.

body,#hnmain {
  background: black;
}

table.itemlist {
  background: black;
  color: white;
  tr.athing {
    margin: 10px;
    .title {
      padding: 5px;
    }
  }

}
a.storylink, .commtext.c00, .commtext a {
  color: white !important;
}
a {
color: white !important;
}

Block Yourself from Analytics

Sometimes we want to block our page views on the specific website from going to Google analytics then Block yourself from analytics extension will come handy for you. Reason to use this extension is simple maybe you are developing your website and don’t want your page views to go to your analytics because while development you may visit your site too often to test things and that will affect your analytics data.

Google Analytics gets a lot of data of users like demographic of user.

Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google)

Useful when you don’t want to track your own page views into your Google Analytics.
All you need to do is install the extension and forget about it. No extra steps required.
You can install the extension into your entire office, development team system to reduce unnecessary page views.

After installing the Opt-Out extension no Google Analytics page views will be sent to any website your browser which isn’t good. As websites need event, goal, page views to improve their website for users.

We suggest you use the Block Yourself From Analytics extension because it will only work for selected websites which are yours not on every website.

Tag Assistant Companion

Ever wanted to know if your tags properly implemented or not, Tag Assistant will help you analyse in what steps events are fired at the time of tag firing what data was available in the data layer, custom dimension details sent with a pageview. you can generate reports to properly check details of all the events happened.

Tab Resize – split-screen layout

This extension is recommended for people who have ultra monitors, Tab Resize extension helps you resize opened tabs effortlessly few clicks in predefined layout and resized tabs can be restored also. You can customise layout how may row and column should be used when resizing tabs to fit on your screen.

Check My Link

Check My Link checks all the links on the current open tab to find if there any broken link. Nowadays every page has lots and lots of links checking every link manually is not possible. You can copy links if there is any broken link on the page.

Best Chrome Extensions for SEO and Marketing

All the extensions that help digital marketing people to do more.

RiteTag

Hashtags are important to reach more audience on twitter, Instagram and Facebook but finding and generating hashtags can take more time.

With this extension, you need to select text or image right click select Ritetag option and now you have a bunch of hashtags which are highly relevant for the text you selected.

For example, you are about to publish a tweet you can select all the text you have written and get a suggestion for hashtags within seconds or you are scheduling on hootsuite select text or image get hashtags copy paste and your’re done.

MozBar

An extension developed by moz.com to check Domain Authority(DA), Page Authority(PA) and Spam Score at once glance.
While we don’t promote any of there third party metrics but in the Digital marketing community DA is seen as the strength of a domain. If you want to know more about DA read here.

The extension also contains some utilities which are too good like highlight all no-follow, follow links and External or internal links. You can also see on page elements like meta description, meta keywords, H1, H2, Alt Tags for basic SEO analysis of page.

SimilarWeb – Traffic Rank & Website Analysis

Quickly find out the approximate traffic of websites you are browsing with additional information like country, traffic graph over a period of time, popular keywords, similar websites and paid traffic.

While data will be not accurate in all the cases still for a rough idea it works great.

If you are interested in how they collect data or provide insights read: SimilarWeb Data Methodology

SEOquake

Most popular SEO chrome extension among Digital Marketers. This extension has been built by SEMRush. It’s a toolkit for Search Engine Optimisation. You can connect the extension with SEMRush account to quickly get a lot of semrush data in the toolbar like traffic, backlinks count, display advertising-related data.
On each page, you can check all the on-page elements through diagnosis and page info along with the density of keywords to optimise your website.

Also, keep in mind while you use the extension a lot of data is being sent to SEMRush which they use to provide more insights. Read seoquake privacy policy if you want to know more.

Buzzsumo

While using this extension you can find out the social presence of any page like how many times content has been shared.
It helps in deciding the title or topic for your next blog. You can write more content that people love sharing which you can analyse quickly with BuzzSumo.

If you visit their website you can find more helpful tools like live trending now, question analyser, Facebook analyser and Backlinks

Unlimited Email Tracker

Track if your sent emails are opened or not, if opened then how many time opened whether any link clicked or not. You can track it easily with Unlimited Email Tracker, the extension provides you quick options while you compose a message, you can enable and disable feature per email basis, by default extension shows a label on every email tracked and non-tracked you can disable this in the setting.

You can also schedule your emails to go at the time you specified, get a reminder if the email is not opened within a specified time.

Boomerang for Gmail

Full-fledged email scheduler right into your Gmail inbox, it has features you always wanted like, get a reminder if your sent email is not opened in the specific time or you didn’t get a response from a client, you can even pause your inbox from showing new emails in your inbox until you are ready.

Also, boomerang can give you an overview of your email you about to send that how likely you will get a response from your client based on artificial intelligent.

Keywords everywhere

Best Keyword Research Chrome extension choice for most of the people. This extension provides keyword metric details like search volume, cost per click on 15+ websites like Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Google search console etc.

The extension gives an idea about what queries are searched more on Google and what CPC they have whenever you perform any search on specified pages or visit reports on the dashboard. Although I recommend to use it only for getting a general sense about keywords traffic, do not totally rely on the data produced by this extension.

You can mark keywords favourite and export them as CSV, Excel and Pdf to further use case.

Best Chrome Extensions for Security

LastPass

You should start using a password manager if you are not using one, you can use any password manager whichever suits your need like Keeper, Dashlane, 1Password etc.

Lastpass helps you manage your passwords and secure notes, you can autofill, autologin to sites using LastPass, it offers to generate secure password also checks your saved websites if they are involved in any data breach recently.

By using Lastpass Extension you can share login password with others in few clicks even without revealing your password and obviously other people also need to be a LastPass user. The extension lets you manage every aspect of your LastPass account so you can update, delete and add new site password, extension auto adds new username and password when it detects account creation page.

Bitwarden – Password Manager

Bitwarden is an open-source free password manager with enterprise-level security. Bitwarden is a great alternative to other paid password managers out their in the market.

This extension helps you keep your passwords strong and safe, you can even host your own server for passwords while using bitwarden.

TunnelBear VPN

Bypass censorship and access the internet freely as you want, Tunnelbear VPN gives you easy access. You should use a VPN whenever you access the internet from Public WiFi or when you don’t trust your internet service provider.

Or you can also make your own VPN – How to Create Your Own VPN Server

Authy (chrome app) – Depreciated

Authy as chrome app still available but will be removed soon, this is due to Google announced that they are ending support for Chrome apps.

Having a secure password is not enough nowadays you should setup two-factor authentication for your important accounts to add another layer of protection. Authy Chrome app helps you manage your 2FA codes, Authy syncs your codes with your devices so you have access to your 2FA codes all the time. You can disable multi-platform sync if you want. Authy extension is just a quick access button for the Authy App.

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HTTPS Everywhere

Strictly follow HTTPS everywhere to secure your data from leaking, data sent on HTTP can be intercepted. So by using this extension, all HTTP links are changed to HTTPS and also you can block unencrypted request. If this extension breaks site you can manually disable this extension on this site.

uBlock Origin

uBlock is a general-purpose blocker that can be used to block anything on any website, you can also block ads also.

Source code of uBlock Origin is available on GitHub so anyone can check their code.

While UI of extension is not user friendly but functionality offered by extension is really great like you can use element picker to block any specific element on the page, use the zapper to quickly delete any element from page live. You can read more about how to use uBlock Origin on GitHub Wiki.

Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger is one of the best chrome extension that everyone should install, it’s an advanced tracker blocker, it analysis request sent by your browser when you visit multiple websites and if finds any websites that tracking you across multiple websites it blocks all future request automatically.

NoScript

As you already guessed it what this extension does it blocks scripts (Javascript code) from running, the extension allows scripts to load and run from trusted domains, you can allow other domains too if you trust them.

Cookie AutoDelete

Cookie AutoDelete solves one problem that everyone has, you can use it AutoDlete Cookie of sites that you are not using so that site won’t be able to track you,

By deleting cookie you also delete current login session, you can add sites in multiple lists so cookie of those sites are not always deleted when you close tab or browser.

Decentraleyes

Ever wondered how CDN networks who host most famous libraries that are used in most of the websites keep track of how many requests they received for the resources by tracking every request,

Decentraleyes helps you block that CDN tracking and gives a little boost to sites you visit by loading the content from cached file locally, so won’t have to send a new request to their servers.

The extension works out of the box you don’t have to do anything to make it work, just install and forget.

Best Chrome Extensions for Utilities / Sharing Media

Picture-in-Picture

You will love this extension, Install it first thank me later

Picture in Picture extension is made by Google,

This little handy extension can popup video from any website to a resizable popup window,

So you can leave that webpage without missing a frame of video you are watching,

This especially comes in handy when you are watching a movie or documentary but due to this, you can’t move to another tab because you will miss the important part of it.

Another scenario is when you are watching something DIY video of any kind and also searching other required things in other tabs simultaneoulsy.

Clipboard history

Store all your frequently copied text in extension so you don’t have to find the document and copy that line again. You can select when to save your copied text in clipboard history extension when to no based on the word, symbol count. Sync your clipboard history with multiple devices using chrome sync, you can favourite your copied text and add a tag to them to easily recognised it. The extension also save the source of your copied text if you copied while on any webpage so you can go back to that page if want.

List of features is long like context menu support, export data in multiple formats, sync records, all data stored locally until you choose to sync it using chrome sync.

Voice to Text(Voice Typing)

You can write using your voice on most of the websites just put cursor in the text box and click on extension icon or right-click in the text box and select start recording. The extension supports 120 languages so you are well covered.

If you do not have a microphone on your computer then you can use your phone as a microphone by using WO Mic.

Ghostery -Ad Blocker

Block annoying ads on a website who just bloats ad everywhere on the website, by blocking ads you are also protecting your privacy from ad trackers and making your page load faster. Ghostery makes your privacy even safer by anonymizing your data.

Also, make sure you disable Ghostery on-site you support and love to read content because by blocking ads you are also stopping their revenue from ads.

Videostream for Google Chromecast

Cast all movies and videos stored on your computer/laptop to your Chromecast TV without any media server. Videostream supports subtitle, mp3 /music play, 3d Videos. Download Videostream app to control media library and what to play next right from your mobile, you can browse your media library added to the video stream on your computer.

If you like video stream you should read our post on Great Chromecast apps.

Improve YouTube! (Open-Source for YouTube)

Improve YouTube extension provides some handy features you always wanted like mouse wheel up and down to control media volume, switch back to classic YouTube design if want, set fixed video playback quality, Hide elements on YouTube page you don’t want like related videos, comments & live chat, thumbnail GIF on/off, Hd Thumbnail.

List of features goes on and on if you want to add your own features or fork the project just go to GitHub repo of project and do it.

Enhancer for YouTube

Another YouTube experience enhancer extension, like improve YouTube extension it also gives you same features with some unique one like block ads, white list channels from ad blocking, custom themes and execute your own JavaScript code on-page.

Full Page Screen Capture

As the name suggests it takes a full-page screen capture, you can set in settings in which format screenshot should be saved png or jpg,

Select directory in which in download folder where screenshot should be downloaded, you can auto-download screenshot if want. The extension also offers an option to download screenshot in pdf format, you can select page size US letter, US legal, A4 or full size.

Awesome Screenshot

Awesome screenshot adds more customisation feature you love it like you can record your screen with just an extension. You can take a screenshot in multiple sizes like only visible area, full-page, selected area, take a screenshot with delay etc.

After taking screenshot you can add multiple layers of customization like blur area of the image, annotate or highlight something with multiple available options and share images on a variety of platform like Slack, Trello, asana, Github or get a shareable link of the image by uploading it to cloud storage like google drive, dropbox and box.

You don’t need anything else only single Awesome screenshot extension does that all for you.

Screencastify – Screen video Record

Record your browser tab or any desktop application, Easy to set up and manage, if you do a lot of screen recording you may be already using OBS for recording. Screencastify is great if you want simple screen recording that is just one click away in your browser. Use Screencastify to help your friend by providing a small tutorial to anything.

User JavaScript and CSS

That’s one of my favourite extension, you can add your own CSS and JavaScript code on any webpage to make it feel like yours to add any feature you wanted and can be done with small code.

Keep in mind code runs in a browser so you won’t be able to do stuff that is server-side but can change other things. Look and Feel of a website, for example, we wrote a small SCSS in Amino: Live CSS Editor part you can compile that SCSS to CSS and use it to with this extension to make Hacker News Dark mode.

body, #hnmain {
  background: black;
}
table.itemlist {
  background: black;
  color: white;
}
table.itemlist tr.athing {
  margin: 10px;
}
table.itemlist tr.athing .title {
  padding: 5px;
}
a.storylink, .commtext.c00, .commtext a {
  color: white !important;
}
a {
color: white !important;
}

This sample CSS is just to give you an example what you can do with User JavaScript and CSS extension.

The extension can sync your JavaScript and CSS with chrome so you can edit on one system use it on another system using sync, this feature is in Beta so export your work and save it before using it.

Dark Reader

Add Dark mode to every website you use with single extension, Dark Reader is an open source chrome extension that gives you option to customize your dark mode settings, you can adjust brightness, contrast of background and text, you can even make website text grayscale to less distrustful to your eyes, the extension gives you two theme option light and dark, you can set settings globally and for every site individually.

Best Chrome Extensions for Better Website Experience

These are the extension that increases your experience with the website who offers an extension to save directly to your account.

Evernote Web Clipper

Every Evernote user should have Evernote web clipper extension because it makes it easy to clip content on the internet to your Evernote Notes, you can clip the whole page or selected part of the page, take a screenshot of the page and save it or just bookmark the page in Evernote to get back to it later on any device.

Save to Pocket

If you use the pocket to curate your articles to read later then this extension helps you do that with one click. Install the Save to Pocket extension log in to your account and when you find an article you like to save like this one? Click the icon of pocket and that’s it article saved you can add tags to easily categories it.

Save to Google Drive

Everyone has a Gmail account so they have access to Google Drive, Save to Google Drive extension makes it possible to save document, image, text, link anything that is open in chrome to your Google Drive. You can rename and edit the text before saving. Now when you saved anything to your Google drive you can access it other platforms in your Google drive.

OneNote Web Clipper

Clip the content from web to your OneNote, clip text, whole page, part of the page, a screenshot of the page, media from a page like an image or media. OneNote web clipper can save a lot of time doing things manually.

Bit.ly

Create Bit.ly link without jumping tabs, just click the icon and you have the bit.ly URL, you can tag your created link so can find it later easily if wanted.

Confused in selecting a good URL shortener? Read Best URL shorteners

Pinterest

Found something useful and want to add it to your awesome Pinterest Board then Pinterest extension got your back, you can easily select an image of your choice as extension picks all the images from the page for you.

Save to Facebook

Find Interesting things on the internet and save it to your Facebook account to share it later when you want, everything you save to Facebook is secure.? Share when you want it, make your own collection of cool, funny, interesting things.

GIPHY for Chrome

Like to share GIF everywhere then GIPHY for Chrome is for you, just click and see trending GIFs and search and select GIF to the link to share anywhere on the social media platforms or website where you want to share it.

Best Chrome Extensions for Saving Money

Extensions to save money while you shop on the web by applying coupons and tracking price to know the right time to buy the product at the right price.

The Camelizer (for Amazon)

Famous for price tracking on Amazon e-commerce platform, The camelizer supports Amazons (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, CN, IT, ES) website only. Check product price history to know if the current price is the right price to buy or its worth to wait.

Honey

Honey is a breeze for users who shop online and don’t want to spend time search for a coupon, honey automatically applies coupon for you so you save money, Honey currently supports sites in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and India.

BuyHatke

Compare prices of a product from cross websites, set price drop alert on products, view product price history with BuyHatke, BuyHatke even finds best coupons for you so do the shopping BuyHatke does the saving for you. BuyHatke works on most of the big e-commerce websites in India.

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Shop with Family – Hide All Prices

Hides all the prices from Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, Aliexpress etc so you can focus on product, not the price. Make sure to use price filters so you don’t pick products out of your budget.

Where is My Website

If you own a website and want to know where your website is in the search result for any keyword then this extension will help you by highlighting websites for you, you can add your competitor’s websites to keep tracking when their website show up in your search result.

Another use case is you can add websites you want to be highlighted in the browser whenever they are in a result like a highlighted website like stackoverflow.com in the search result.

Conclusion

We hope you found some useful chrome extension to use in your workflow if you like this post then share this awesome list of chrome extensions with your friends and co-workers so they can scoop more out of their browsers.

Sources

What are the best, most useful, must-have Google Chrome extensions? from AskReddit