44 Best Chrome Extensions Worth Installing in 2026

If you already use Todoist, this is the fastest way to get tasks into it. Click the icon to see today's list, add a task without leaving the page, or save the current page as a task with its link attached, which is handy for "read this later" or "reply to this" items.

Grammarly checks spelling, grammar and tone in almost any text box: Gmail, Google Docs, LinkedIn, comment forms. The free version catches mistakes. Paid plans add full rewrites and AI writing help.

The company behind it renamed itself Superhuman in October 2025, but the extension is still called Grammarly and works the same way. Everything you type in a checked field is sent to its servers, so switch it off on sites where you handle sensitive information.

BlockSite blocks the sites that eat your working day. Add sites one by one or block whole categories, and use its focus mode to block them only during set hours. It also has an Android app, so your block list can follow you to your phone.

One click closes every tab in the window and turns them into a list of links on a single page. Restore them all at once or one at a time when you need them. It is the quickest fix for a laptop that slows down because 40 tabs are open, and it frees the memory those tabs were using.

Vimium lets you browse without touching the mouse. Press f and every link on the page gets a letter label, type the letters and the link opens. j and k scroll, H and L go back and forward, and ? shows every shortcut. It takes a day to get used to and then it is hard to go back.

Chrome already offers to translate whole pages. The extension adds the part it is missing: select a word or sentence and get the translation in a small popup, without translating the rest of the page. It is the most useful way to read a foreign-language site while keeping the original text in view.

One dropdown for Google services: search, Translate, Maps, Calendar, Keep notes, Gmail and more, each usable right in the menu. Handy if you check your calendar or jot a Keep note twenty times a day and are tired of opening a new tab each time.

Voice In types what you say into almost any text box on the web: email, chat, documents, forms. It supports more than 50 languages. The free version covers everyday dictation, and a paid plan unlocks more features. If your computer has no microphone, you can use your phone as a microphone.

Keeps a history of the text you copy in Chrome, so the thing you copied five copies ago is still there. You can pin snippets you paste often and use them as a basic text expander. Data stays on your computer unless you turn on sync.

Momentum replaces the new tab page with a photo, the time, a greeting, and the one thing you said you would focus on today. The free version adds a to-do list and links. The paid plan adds extras such as a Pomodoro timer, soundscapes, world clocks, and connections to task apps.

Every new tab shows a striking satellite image from Google Earth, with the place name and a link to see it on the map. It has not been updated since July 2024, but it is made by Google and still works. You can also browse the whole collection without the extension at Earth View.

The best ad blocker for Chrome in 2026, with 21 million users. It blocks ads, trackers and malware domains with very little memory use, because Chrome does the actual blocking from the filter lists the extension provides.

It has three modes. Basic works without permission to read the pages you visit. Optimal (the default) and Complete remove more annoyances, such as cookie notices and empty ad boxes, but need that permission. Compared with the original uBlock Origin, you lose the element picker and custom filters.

Please switch it off on sites you want to support. Ads pay for most free websites, including this one.

A password manager is the single most useful security extension you can install, and Bitwarden is the best free one. The free plan stores unlimited passwords and passkeys and syncs them across every device, including phones. It fills logins, generates strong passwords, and tells you when a saved site is involved in a breach.

It is open source and independently audited. If you prefer, you can even run your own Bitwarden server. The paid Premium plan adds built-in two-factor codes and security reports.

Made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit. Privacy Badger does not rely on a list of known trackers. It watches which third parties follow you across sites and blocks the ones that do, so it catches new trackers a list might miss. It does not block ads that do not track you.

Ghostery blocks ads and trackers and, with its Never-Consent feature, answers cookie consent pop-ups for you by rejecting tracking. Its popup shows exactly which trackers each page tried to load. Pick Ghostery or uBlock Origin Lite, not both: two blockers doing the same job just slow pages down.

NoScript blocks JavaScript on every site until you allow it, one domain at a time. That shuts out a lot of tracking and malicious code, but it also breaks most modern sites until you trust them. It is for people who want maximum control and do not mind the clicking. Everyone else is better served by the two blockers above.

Dark Reader gives every website a dark theme, including sites that have no dark mode of their own. You can tune brightness, contrast and sepia, switch it off for sites that look wrong, and set it to follow your system's light and dark setting. Seven million users, a 4.7 rating, and it is updated almost every week.

Adds the controls YouTube should have: change volume and speed with the mouse wheel, set a default playback quality, loop a video, keep a mini player while you scroll comments, and apply custom themes. You pick which buttons appear in the player bar.

SponsorBlock skips the "this video is sponsored by" segments inside YouTube videos. Other viewers mark where sponsor reads, intros, and "please subscribe" reminders start and stop, and the extension jumps over them automatically. You choose which segment types to skip and which to just highlight on the progress bar.

Where Enhancer focuses on the player, Improve YouTube! changes the whole site. Hide Shorts, comments, the sidebar, or recommendations. Stop autoplay, force a video quality, and pick a theme. It is open source and has hundreds of settings, so start with the defaults and change one thing at a time.

Pops the video on any page into a small floating window that stays on top while you work in other tabs or apps. Chrome can now do this by itself: use the media controls button in the toolbar, and since Chrome 134 a playing video can pop out automatically when you switch tabs. The extension is still useful as a one-click button, or for sites where the built-in option does not appear.

The highest-rated extension on this list: 11 million users and a 4.9 rating. Click the icon and it scrolls the page and captures all of it as one image, which you can save as PNG, JPG or PDF. The paid plan adds cropping, annotation and an editor. Chrome's own screenshot tool only captures what is on screen, so this is still worth having.

Captures the visible area, a selected region or the whole page, then lets you mark it up with arrows, boxes, text and a blur tool for hiding personal details. It also records your screen with a webcam overlay. Good for bug reports and quick how-to images.

Records a tab, a window or your whole screen, with your webcam in a corner, and gives you a share link as soon as you stop. It is widely used by teachers because it can add quiz questions to a video. The free plan is limited, so for long recordings a free desktop app such as OBS is a better fit.

Mozilla shut down Pocket in July 2025, and Raindrop.io is the best place to move to. Save any page, article, video or image with one click, sort it into collections and tags, and find it later on any device. The paid Pro plan adds full-text search inside saved pages and permanent copies in case a page disappears. To move your browser bookmarks between browsers, see how to sync bookmarks across browsers.

Clips a full article, a simplified version without ads, a selection, or a screenshot into your Evernote notebooks, with tags and notes. The clipper itself is excellent. The catch is Evernote: since Bending Spoons bought it, the free plan has been cut back to a very small number of notes, so heavy clipping now needs a paid plan.

The free alternative to Evernote's clipper. Save a full page, a region, an article view or a bookmark into any OneNote notebook and section. All you need is a free Microsoft account, and your clips sync to OneNote on every device.

Made by Google. Saves the current page as an image, HTML file or Google Doc into Drive, and adds a right-click option to save images and links straight to Drive. Useful for keeping receipts, confirmations, and pages you need to prove existed.

Click the icon on any website to see what it is built with: CMS, JavaScript frameworks, analytics, ad networks, CDN, web server and more. The extension is free. Bulk lookups and lead lists are paid. Wappalyzer used to be open source but closed its code in 2023.

Does the same job as Wappalyzer and is especially good with WordPress, showing the theme and plugins a site uses. It can also notify you when a site you follow changes its technology. Try both and keep whichever detects more on the sites you care about.

The official React extension from Meta. It adds Components and Profiler tabs to Chrome DevTools, so you can inspect the component tree, see and edit props and state, and find out which components re-render and how long they take. Essential if you write React.

An eyedropper for any pixel on the page, a colour history, a CSS gradient generator, and a tool that lists every colour a page uses. It has not been updated since May 2024 but still works and has 4 million users.

Select an element in DevTools, open the CSS Used tab, and it collects only the CSS rules that element and its children use, ready to copy into CodePen. It is a starting point, not a perfect copy: expect to tidy up the result.

Add your own CSS and JavaScript to any site and it runs every time you visit. Hide an annoying banner, change fonts, add a keyboard shortcut. For example, this gives Hacker News a quick dark look:

body, #hnmain { background: #111; }
table.itemlist { background: #111; color: #eee; }
a, .titleline a, .commtext { color: #eee !important; }

Newer versions of Chrome ask you to allow user scripts before extensions like this can run code. If a script does nothing, open the extension's details page in chrome://extensions and check for an Allow User Scripts toggle.

Checks every link on the current page and colours them green, yellow (redirect) or red (broken). You can copy the list of broken links for fixing. Perfect for checking an article before you publish it. For a whole site, use a crawler instead.

Made by Semrush. SEOquake runs an on-page audit (title, description, headings, images), lists every internal and external link with its attributes, checks keyword density, and adds metrics under each Google result. It sends browsing data to Semrush to power those metrics, so turn off the parts you do not use.

Shows search volume, cost per click and related keywords right inside Google, YouTube, Amazon and other sites. The free tier gives keyword ideas and some metrics without credits. Full search volume data uses credits, sold in annual plans that start at $84 a year (pricing checked September 2026).

Free without an account: an on-page report (title, meta, headings, hreflang), a broken link checker, redirect chains, and an image report with alt text and file sizes. With a paid Ahrefs account it also shows backlink and traffic data for any page. It fills the gap left by the Similarweb extension, which is currently unavailable.

Shows Moz's Domain Authority and Page Authority for any page and search result, highlights followed and nofollowed links, and grades on-page optimisation. You need a free Moz account, and some data is limited on the free tier. It has the lowest rating on this list (3.3), so try it before relying on it. Remember that Domain Authority is Moz's own score, not something Google uses.

Tells you when and how often someone opens an email you sent from Gmail, and whether they clicked a link. Tracking is unlimited and free. Many email apps now block tracking pixels, so treat "not opened" as "unknown", not "ignored".

Gmail can already schedule emails and snooze messages. Boomerang adds what it cannot: reminders when nobody replies to an email you sent, Inbox Pause to stop new mail arriving while you focus, and recurring messages. The free plan has a monthly limit.

Adds a price history chart to every Amazon product page, so you can see at a glance whether today's "deal" is really a low price. Set a target price and Keepa alerts you by email, push notification or Telegram when it drops. Works on most Amazon stores, including US, UK, Germany and India. More options in our guide to Amazon price trackers.

The browser button for camelcamelcamel, the long-running Amazon price tracker. Click it on a product page to see price history and set a price drop alert. Its extension has not been updated since June 2024, but the service behind it is active. Keepa has more features; The Camelizer is simpler.

For shoppers in India. Buyhatke shows price history on Amazon India, Flipkart, Myntra and other stores, compares the same product across sites, and alerts you when the price drops. It is one of the best-rated shopping extensions on the store at 4.8.

Hides every price on shopping sites such as Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra, so you (or the family member choosing a gift) pick the product first and look at the price later. Use the site's price filter first so you stay within budget.

Highlights your own sites and your competitors' in Google search results, so you can spot where you rank at a glance. You can also use it to highlight sources you trust, like Stack Overflow or Wikipedia, in every search.