Google’s Best Chrome Extensions of 2024
Google Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world , which means it has a lot of extensions . As the year comes to an end, Google is now helping you make sense of all those add-ons with a list of the best Chrome extensions of 2024 . The following 12 extensions are the Chrome team’s favorites of the year and include games, translation tools, and more.
Increase the volume of any open tab
In a world where every site wants to show you loud auto-playing video ads, I still encounter videos that are too loud to be heard. Volume Master will help you solve this problem by increasing the volume level of any open tab up to 600%.
Download: Volume Master
Find the best deals on your favorite products
Keepa is a great browser extension for deal hunters. It shows price charts for items on Amazon and eBay and helps you decide if the deal is actually a good deal. Keep it on hand for major sales or use it to find out if now is a good time to buy something you’ve been eyeing.
Download: Keepa
Apply the best coupons automatically
CouponBirds is another great shopping extension. Whenever you’re looking for great deals, you can save time by automatically finding and applying the best coupon codes on most shopping websites.
Download: CouponBirds
Make videos easier to watch
Turn Off the Lights has been one of my favorite browser extensions for a while, and now it’s also made it onto Google’s 2024 Favorites list. It automatically darkens everything except your video when you watch YouTube, but it also has many other hidden features .
Download: Turn off the lights
Get things done with a to-do list
Lifehacker previously recommended Todoist as a great to-do list app , but its Chrome extension tends to fly under the radar. You can use the extension to add tasks or websites to your lists and check off completed items.
Download: Todoist for Chrome
Decorate your new tab
Use Momentum to turn your new tab page into something beautiful and more useful than just a blank white page. It will automatically find calming wallpapers for you, let you set a focus timer to get work done, and keep track of your to-do lists.
Download: Impulse
Customize the look of any website
If you’re tired of seeing the same website designs over and over again, try Stylish for Chrome to change things up. It has different types of themes that allow you to have a different look and feel for your favorite websites. Even if you don’t want to create your own styles, you can download community projects and explore different themes.
Download: Stylish
Save to Evernote
While Evernote isn’t as popular as it once was, its browser extension is still pretty good. Evernote Web Clipper lets you clip web pages or PDFs and save them to Evernote. This will remove distracting elements from your saved items, making them easier to read at your leisure. Or, as a good alternative, try Obsidian’s web clipper .
Download: Evernote Web Clipper
A fun game for your browser
Ice Dodo is a parkour game in space that can be played directly from Google Chrome. The extension allows you to press a button on the toolbar to launch the game, which is a platformer with enough levels to keep you entertained for a long time.
Download: Ice Dodo
Translation extension for Chrome
Immersive Translate allows you to use the translation service of your choice, such as Google Translate or DeepL, to translate web pages, PDFs, or even video subtitles. This is a great option to integrate translation into content that is otherwise difficult to translate.
Download: Immersive Translation
Use forward slash to enter emails
Use Text Blaze to quickly write entire phrases with just a few button presses. It allows you to customize slash commands like /thank you that expand to longer phrases of your choice.
Download: Text Blaze
Automate browser apps with AI
Bardeen is an automation tool that connects with the services you use every day. You can use it to create workflows to suit your needs, such as grabbing a list of employees from LinkedIn and copying it into Google Sheets, or using pre-built workflows to improve productivity.
Download: Bardin