The Best Free Google Chrome Extensions

By admin On Nov 12, 2019

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We have compiled a list of best Chrome extensions from categories like Social & Communication, Education, Entertainment, Games, Lifestyle, News & Weather, Productivity, Shopping, and Utilities. You can check How to install Google Chrome Extension from third party.

Social and Communication

Multiple Tools for Facebook

Multiple Tools for Facebook is a collection of tools for Facebook. You can prevent others from stealing Profile Picture, change the privacy of your messages in bulk on personal Facebook. scan interaction of friends on a personal Facebook wall. and much more with this tool.

Toolkit For Facebook by PlugEx (Free)

Toolkit For Facebook by PlugEx is a collection of automation tools for Facebook.com. Facebook Social Toolkit is a collection of Facebook automation tools that are created to save your time
while using Facebook.

Hootsuite

One of the most popular social networking management apps out there. Use this quick link to get to your account.

Gmail

Quick access to your Gmail account.

Google Calendar

Great for a quick link to your Google Calendar right from your apps tab.

Tweetdeck

Save clicks getting to Tweetdeck online.

Mappeo

Find Youtube videos in a geographic area. If you are looking to explore an area or even if there is something trending going on in an area. See what people who are there are uploading.

Pearltrees

An entirely different way to organize and share the stuff you find on the web. It is almost like mind-mapping mixed with a bookmarking service.

Quotes Book

For the quote lovers out there, get this app for fast access to your quotbook.com account.

Prezi

Prezi is an innovative social presentation tool. It is not a linear presentation tool, you can focus in on one topic then zoom out and jump ahead to something totally different. It makes for better crowd participation.

SocialBro

Social Bro is analytics for your Twitter community. If you are using your Twitter account for business, you may want to at least peek at the tools offered like: download your follower list, analyzing your competition and easily visualizing your data in charts.

IMO Instant Messenger

IMO is a great web-based IM service. There are no accounts to create, just access your Yahoo, GTalk or other instant message services on the web.

Education

Little Alchemy

This is a great learning tool for those interested in earth sciences. You start with 4 elements and you have to make 210 combinations in total. (i.e. water + soil = mud and wind + soil = dust)

Kindle Cloud Reader

The Kindle cloud reader can read all the books you purchase for your Amazon Kindle directly in your browser.

3dTin

3dTin is a great 3D model program for a beginner. The program works directly from your browser, so you don’t have to spend a fortune trying it out to see if this is your thing. Great practice app for those who are interested in design or if you want to create a 3D model for a project.

Google Books

Google Books is a fantastic alternative to options such as the Kindle and Nook apps. What distinguishes Google Books is that there are more books available. The selection contains more unknown authors or Indie books that are for sale.

Typing Test – KeyHero

Test your typing skills with different types of methods, ranging from memory to focus and special reasoning. It is a good app for those who want to increase or test their speed on the keyboard.

Biodigital Human

This is just a cool app. If you are studying anatomy or just interested in the human body and how it works, you’ll have a good time with this Chrome app.

Busuu.com

Busuu is a free language learning site. Although there are many options to help you learn a language, Bussu puts you in touch with people who speak the language you are learning. Bussu is the modern equivalent of having a pen friend in another country years ago.

Math Mahjong

Math is hard for a lot of people. Turing it into a game will help more people learn the fundamentals of math. By matching the tiles that add up to the same number, you are forced to do math to complete the game.

The Elementals

The Elementals is a fun way to learn the periodic table. You can play with each element is a fun little character to help you remember what each one is made of.

WiBit

WiBit is a link to software coding courses. The courses are presented in bite-sized portions to let you learn quickly.

Ancient History Encyclopedia

As you could guess by the name, this is a great spot to learn about ancient history. There are definitions and news and lots of interesting articles to feed your craving for ancient times.

StudyStack

StudyStack is a memorization app. For anyone studying anything, this is a great free option. Whether you are studying for your chemistry mid-term exam or learning your 50 US states, you can use the games in this application to help you remember the details you need.

Entertainment

Marvel Comics

Comic books are the first thing many young boys read for fun. Marvel’s Chrome app helps you save a tree while still getting all of the fantastic stories you have grown up reading at a fraction of the cost.

Cargo Bridge

Cargo Bridge is another game that takes some thinking to make work. It is like Angry Birds for engineering students.

Google Music

Google Music is Google’s cloud music app. You can upload your music to it and access it from anywhere. Add up to 20,000 of your own songs and even get some free ones from Google to add to your mix.

Webcam Toy

Using the effects to modify snapshots taken from your webcam can help you spice up some pictures of yourself. You can download the pictures and/or share them with your friends on your social site of choice.

Rdio

Rdio is a streaming music web app letting you listen to millions of songs for free with no ads. There is an app for some smartphones as well.

Vudu Movies

An online video store lets you buy or rent new movies and watch them right in your browser.

Crackle

Crackle lets you watch full-length movies for free. There are actually popular movies like Donnie Brasco and Step Brothers on here to watch. It isn’t just lame B movies like some other free services. There is also a mobile app for Crackle.

Beatlab

If you like to make your own music, this will ear up hours of your time. Beatlab lets you make your own beats and share them with your friends or download them as a mp3.

Pixlr-o-matic

Lets you make your modern pictures look like they are retro. There are also a lot of different effects for you to use to make your webcam snapshots or uploaded pictures look unique.

Audiotool

A bit more advanced than Beatlab, Audiotool is another music making app. It gives you a wide range of tools and templates to make the sound you want.

Family

Carrotsticks

Carrotsticks is for kids in 1st-5th grade where they compete in math games with other kids the same age from all over the world.

Epic! – Unlimited Books for Kids

Epic-Unlimited is a eBook Library for kids of age 12 and under. It provides the access over 10,000 high quality books for kids.

Planetarium

Looking at the stars is always a fun family activity. Using this sky map application, you can learn about what you are looking at.

Word 2

This is a unique take on a crossword game. You don’t have a set opponent, you play against everyone! The board is ever-expanding.

KIDO’Z TV

Turn your browser into a kid-safe tv station. They can browse different channels like Science, How-tos, Sesame Street, and Kids songs.

Kid Mode for Chrome

Using Kid Mode, you can make your browser kid-safe and let the access fun things like an art station, videos, and video mail. User Interface is designed for kids in a way that kids can read, view it easily.

My Robot Nation

Create your own robot and have it made and shipped to you! The toy will be unique to you.

Coloris – Color & Draw for Kids

A digital coloring book for kids. There are a bunch of different pictures to color. You an also share the finished masterpiece on Facebook.

Qbox – Wisdom of the Ages

Using roughly 1500 quotes from 3 eras, crossword puzzles are created for you to solve. A really fun game if you like quotes.

Games

WGT Golf Challenge

Play a quick round on a digital remake of real courses. Play quick challenges or a full round, whatever you have the time for.

The Fancy Pants Adventure: World 2

A fun side scrolling game where the main character is a stick figure. Battle all kinds of enemies using your arrow keys to control the movement.

Mahjong Solitaire

Match all the tiles to win. A great strategy game and patience tester.

Isoball 3

Use different shape blocks to get the ball from the doorway to the hole. Pretty simple in theory, difficult in reality.

Steambirds: Survival

A battle for the skies in 24 different planes against wave after wave of enemy squadrons. The game can last as long as you can.

Bubble Shooter

Bubble shooter is a great time waster. You need to point the arrow at the same color ball and try to pop them in groups of 3 or more. It is a bit harder than it seems.

Apple Shooter

If you have ever thought about shooting an apple off of someone’s head with a bow and arrow, this is your chance to do it safely.

Gun Bros

Gun Bros is a top view destroy everything that moves kinda game. If it moves, shoot it.

Air Hockey

A great digital version of a classic game. There are 10 difficult levels to complete.

Lifestyle

PadMapper

When you are in the market for a new apartment, the task can be daunting to find a place. Use the filters and overlays on Google Maps to help you search.

Be a Local!

If you have always wondered what is going on in your area, use Be a Local! to find out. News, weather, traffic, Groupon, environmental info from the EPA… This is also an ideal app if you are looking to relocate and want to find out what’s happening in areas you may want to move to.

GAIN Fitness

One of the hardest parts of working out, aside from the motivation, is making up a good workout routine. GAIN Fitness to the rescue. All of the routines are made by certified trainers for maximum effectiveness.

FitnessBliss

Being able to track your workout helps with motivation. When you can see progress, you are less likely to skip a day. Create, print, track and chart your workout with this gem.

Lose It!

One of the most important parts of any lifestyle is eating right. Plan, track and budget what you eat. They say their average active user loses 12 pounds!

News and Weather

NY Times

Read the NY Times right in your browser. Their layout is a bit less distracting than going to the NY Times site to read.

NPR for Chrome

NPR is a great news and talk station. This app optimized for Chrome will give you the best user experience possible.

Full-Screen Weather

The folks at Weather Underground bring you an awesome application for Chrome. It is a full-screen weather app with street view and radar. It’s like Google Earth meets Weather Underground.

Feedly

When you use your Google Reader to keep up on all of your sites, Feedly is a great way to change the user experience. The layout and navigation and almost everything is transformed into a more magazine stand-like experience.

Layers – Facebook, Twitter, RSS

Your ideal app to wrangle all of your social feeds into one place. See all of your friends, pics, videos, and updates neatly arranged into tabs for easier access.

ESPNCricinfo

Cricket is popular. Get all of your news from this ad-free ESPN application optimized for Chrome.

Google Finance

Following the market can be a full-time job. Use this shortcut to get to Google Finance to see how your preferred companies are doing today.

Weatherbug

Out of all of the weather apps, this one seems to have the coolest looking layout. It has several tabs and to let the floating window display what you want to see. There is integration with Google Maps, geo-location and other services. See real-time traffic and weather along with pictures of what’s going on out there.

The Times of India

India is a big place with a lot happening. Get your local news from 30 major cities, videos, movie reviews and more with this Chrome optimized app.

Productivity

Evernote Web

Evernote is one of the most widely uses no taking applications. It is a cross-platform app and accessible anywhere there is the internet, including your Chrome browser.

Quick Note

Take note quickly right from your browser. Allows searching, editing and also syncing to the cloud making your notes accessible from anywhere.

CAD, DXF, DWG Viewer for Drive

It is a tool that allows you to view CAD files(DXF, DWG…) directly in your browser. It supports Auto CAD DWG, DXF, DWF, HPGL, PLT, SVG, CGM, EMF, WMF.

Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk is a very, very useful task manager. This Chrome app gives you quick access to the site where you can access all of your to-dos.

Wave Accounting

Are you just starting out with your small business and can’t afford much in the way of accounting software? Wave Accounting is a free accounting application that lets you send invoices and track expenses. You can also have information regularly retrieved from your bank account so you are always up-to-date.

Rescue Time

If you work on the web for a living, you know how easy it is to get distracted. However, you don’t always realize where the time has gone. Rescue Time will tell you exactly how much time you are spending on which sites.

Ge.tt

Ge.tt lets you share extremely large files instantly. If you need to send large file types like DWG, this app will be something for you to look into.

Shopping

eBay Web App

For the frequenter of eBay, this app is going to be heaven for you. It lets you shop a bit easier than going to the site itself.

Zillow

When you are in the market for a house, Zillow is a very useful tool. Not only is there a Chrome app, but there are also mobile apps to help you narrow down and view houses in your area of choice.

Hipmunk

Planning a holiday is difficult enough. Makie finding your flight and hotel a bit easier with Hipmunk. They claim “agony-free” travel searching.

Amazon Window Shop

Shop the Amazon stores a bit differently and you are accustomed to. There is a more fun navigation and better way to go through the sub-categories.

Any New Books

If you are an avid reader, you likely have a favorite category of books. Any New Books will notify you for free if a new book comes out in your area of interest.

Graffiti Supplies

Graffiti gets a bad reputation most of the time. Regardless of your love or distain for it, graffiti is artistic. Graffiti supplies will help you find stores anywhere in the world that sell your kind of supplies.

ShopGlider

Shopglider keeps all of your shopping lists, coupons and recipes all in one place.There are even mobile options making this app very useful.

CanIStream.It

CanIStream.it is a neat app. You can type in a show or movie and it will tell you legit sites where you can watch it for free. If there isn’t anyone out there with the rights to stream it, you can click on a link to buy it.

Utilities

Offline Google Mail

Offline Google Mail is something we have covered here before. This app is great for those who travel or have intermittent internet connections. It allows you to download an offline version of your web mail.

Do It (Tomorrow)

They call themselves the procrastinators to-do list app. Unlike other task managers, this one makes it easy to push things off until tomorrow.

CashBase

Cashbase is a personal finance app. You can easily track your income, expenses, import your bank statements and budget your money. There are also charts you can use to see where your money is going.

Timer Tab

Timer tab is a really cool idea and very useful for web workers or anyone who doesn’t want to lose track of time while playing on the web. In a new visible tab, there will be a timer or alarm displayed. Don’t let dinner burn while you play on Facebook.

Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a well-known to-do list manager. You can access Wunderlist from just about anywhere including your mobile devices. It syncs to the cloud so you always know what’s next on the list.

Digital Clock

In a new tab, you can have a full-screen digital clock. The time also displays in the tab title.

Weebly – Website Builder

Quickly make a website for your event or cause. Want to sell something or start a blog, Weebly is a fast way to do just that.

Dictionary Instant

The English language is pretty darn confusing. There are times when you are reading something and aren’t sure what a word means. Or if you are writing and need to find the correct word for the sentence. Using the Dictionary Instant app will help.