Best Chrome Extensions by Use Case
Each shortlist states its selection criteria, then explains the trade-offs between the options.
Best AI Chrome Extensions
AI extensions do four different jobs — answering, summarising, writing and archiving — and most disappointment comes from asking one tool to do all four. These eight are grouped by the job they actually do well, with ratings synced from the Chrome Web Store.
8 extensions reviewedBest Productivity Chrome Extensions
Ten Chrome extensions that remove a repeated cost from your day: tab overload, lost sessions, screenshots rebuilt by hand, passwords reset again. Every rating and install count below is synced from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing.
10 extensions reviewedBest SEO Chrome Extensions
A useful SEO toolbar setup is one on-page inspector, one keyword layer and one competitor lens — not five overlapping overlays. These seven cover that, with live Chrome Web Store ratings and a note on where each one's numbers should not be trusted.
7 extensions reviewedBest Chrome Extensions for Developers
Developer extensions should extend DevTools rather than duplicate it. The ones worth installing add a panel or a transform you would otherwise write yourself.
5 extensions reviewedBest Chrome Extensions for Marketers
Marketing work happens across a dozen browser tools, and the right extensions collapse the research half of that into the page you are already on.
5 extensions reviewedBest Chrome Extensions for Students
A student browser has three jobs: stay on task, capture what you read, and get through long material fast. Three or four extensions cover all of it; more than that becomes its own distraction.
6 extensions reviewedBest Screenshot Chrome Extensions
Screenshot tools divide neatly by what happens after the capture. Some are optimised to produce a clean image in one click; others exist so you can annotate, redact and explain before you share.
3 extensions reviewedBest Tab Manager Chrome Extensions
Tab overload is a memory problem and an attention problem, and different extensions attack different halves of it. Some unload tabs to free RAM; others reorganise them into projects so you stop reopening the same twelve pages every morning.
4 extensions reviewedBest YouTube Chrome Extensions
YouTube extensions fall into three buckets: control the player, remove things you did not ask for, and extract the content without watching it all.
4 extensions reviewed