Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, which means it has plenty of extensions. As the year comes to a close, Google is now helping you sort through 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.
Boost the volume of any open tab
In a world where every site wants to show you a loud autoplaying video ad, I still come across videos where the volume is just too low to be audible. Volume Master helps you address that by boosting 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 a deal really is a steal. Keep it handy for big sale events or use it to see if now is the right time to buy something you’ve been eyeing for a while.
Download: Keepa
Apply the best coupons automatically
CouponBirds is another great shopping extension. Whenever you’re looking for good deals, it lets you save time by automatically looking for and applying the best coupon codes on most shopping websites.
Download: CouponBirds
Make videos easier to watch
Turn Off the Lights has been among my favorite browser extensions for a while, and now it’s made it to Google’s list of 2024 favorites as well. It automatically darkens everything but your video when you’re watching YouTube, but it has many other hidden features too.
Download: Turn Off the Lights
Get things done with a to-do list
Lifehacker has 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
Beautify the new tab page
Use Momentum to transform your new tab page into something that looks beautiful and is more useful than just a blank white page. It’ll automatically find a calming wallpaper for you, let you set a focus timer to get work done, and track your to-do lists.
Download: Momentum
Customize the look of any website
If you’re tired of seeing the same website designs over and over, try Stylish for Chrome to switch things up. It features different kinds of themes that let you use a different look for your favorite sites. Even if you don’t want to create custom styles, you can download community designs and explore different themes.
Download: Stylish
Save to Evernote
Although Evernote isn’t as popular as it once was, its browser extension is still quite good. Evernote Web Clipper lets you clip webpages or PDFs and save them to Evernote. This removes distracting elements from saved items, making them easier to read at your leisure. Or, for a good alternative, try Obsidian’s web clipper.
Download: Evernote Web Clipper
A fun game for your browser
Ice Dodo is a parkour game set in space, which you can play directly from Google Chrome. The extension lets you click a button in the toolbar to launch the game, which is a platformer with enough levels to keep you entertained for a long time.
Download: Ice Dodo
A translation extension for Chrome
Immersive Translate lets you use a translation service of your choice, such as Google Translate or DeepL, to translate webpages, PDFs, or even video subtitles. It’s a great option to integrate translation into content that is hard to translate otherwise.
Download: Immersive Translate
Use slash commands to type your emails
Use Text Blaze to quickly write whole phrases with just a few button presses. It lets you set up slash commands, such as /thanks, which expand into longer phrases of your choice.
Download: Text Blaze
Automate browser apps with AI
Bardeen is an automation tool that links with services that you use every day. You can use it to create workflows to suit your needs, such as getting a list of employees from LinkedIn and copying it to Google Sheets, or use pre-built workflows to boost productivity.
Download: Bardeen
