21 Best Google Chrome Extensions For Productivity

Whether we like to admit it or not, our life runs on computers. From your iPhone to your Apple Watch or MacBook, screen time has soared as we turn to our devices for everything from Netflix to social media. But there’s one device that reigns supreme over our workday tasks: the traditional computer. And with our rampant computer usage comes heavy browser reliance – what did people do before Google?!

In the browser world, Google-backed Chrome is one of the best options and has some of the best productivity functionalities. If you didn’t know yet, the browser has a litany of “Chrome extensions,” specifically designed to make your life on the web easier. Who would turn down such an obvious opportunity to be more productive, save time, and increase efficiency?

To help you be your most productive self, we’ve compiled a list of the best Chrome extensions for productivity that you can download today. Scroll through and check out our picks. You’re just a few clicks away from boosting your day-to-day work productivity.

1. Right Inbox

Right Inbox is a tremendously powerful tool to ease your workflow, and more than 250,000 professionals use it every day to increase their email productivity.

The Right Inbox Chrome extension supercharges your Gmail usage with 4 powerful features, one of which is email scheduling, which is super helpful for startups that work in different time zones. Once you schedule the email, the tool will automatically send your emails at the appropriate time for the timezones you’re working with. You can also save yourself some time by utilizing the recurring email feature, which lets you program recurring notes. They have also recently added the email tracking feature to their free plan to bring your email productivity to the next level.

2. Boomerang for Gmail

Boomerang is for those moments when you have an off-hours epiphany — like figuring out an answer to your bosses question at 12 AM — but don’t want to send emails at an ungodly time. Fear not, Boomerang is here to save the day!

Boomerang for Gmail allows you to schedule delayed sends for emails, essentially allowing you to program a specified “send-time” for correspondence. This Chrome extension also lets you schedule times to receive inbound emails, schedule recurring messages, and set emails to “boomerang” back to the top of your inbox in a month’s time.

3.  Checker Plus for Gmail

Checker Plus for Gmail puts a small envelope-like widget in your toolbar to alert you when you receive new mail — no more clicking back and forth to your Gmail browser every five minutes to see if any new inquiries have rolled in! With Checker Plus, you can read and answer right from the extension, or you can also choose to open it in a Gmail tab.

4. Noisili

Work in a crowded workspace that’s always buzzing with chatter? Noisili helps to cut all that background noise out, replacing it with calming soundtracks like rainfall and lovely chirping birds. Research has shown that nature sounds actually help boost productivity at work, and it makes people even more productive than traditional white noises. Score!

5. Markup Hero

Markup Hero is must have screenshot & annotation tool made to work within your browser. With Markup Hero’s Chrome App you can quickly take a (scrolling) screenshot of any Chrome tab, application window, or screen. This will allow you to quickly capture your screen, add useful annotation callouts, and share a unique link to your screenshot.

Markup Hero helps you stay organized as it stores all your markups securely in the cloud, allowing you to search by title or sort markups into collections (like photo albums). Also, your annotations are never flattened. This means you can make edits at any point! This tool is super helpful for all members of your team as you collaborate on work, especially anything that is visual.

6. Strict Workflow 

Fun Fact: Having more than a few internet tabs open at once can greatly impair your productivity. The principal (and end-goal) of Strict Flow is simple: remove unnecessary distractions from your desktop browser to help you stay focused.

As an added bonus, you can also limit time spent on specific sites. Let’s say you want to cut the time you spend on Facebook to just 15 minutes a day. Simply add Facebook to your list of blocked websites and choose “15 minutes of activity.” This will help you shift your attention onto the more important tasks at hand.

7. Papier

Tired of having to comb through an endless sticky note and highlight options on a Google or Word Document? Well, Papier is here to bring you no-frills note-taking.

Once installed, you’ll see a simple text input page where you can jot down your thoughts or notes as they hit you. Better yet, Papier automatically saves everything you write—so there’s no worry of losing anything, should your computer accidentally shut off or lose battery.

Pro Tip: If you’re interested in a more integrated note-taking capability, we recently launched Hive meeting notes – an easy way to take notes, create actions, and assign next-steps directly in Hive.

8. Todobook

We all know that social media can send you down an endless rabbit hole. One minute you’re checking out a recently tagged photo, and the next thing you know you’re on your cousin’s ex-boyfriends sister’s Facebook page.

Thankfully, Todobook is here to transform your Facebook experience. This extension transforms your Facebook homepage into a an online to-do list that highlights your daily or weekly to-dos. So before you start your scrolling spree, you’re reminded of just how much you need to get done. Additionally, you can also customize Todobook to work in a certain time window, and you can also use it on other social media like Reddit, YouTube and Twitter.

9. Clockify Productivity Tracker

Clockify’s Productivity Tracker is a tool that helps you track exactly where, when and how your time is being spent (whether you want to know or not). With this extension, Chrome helps you collect your user data (aka time spent on certain pages and sites) and displays it in an easy-to-read graph. This helps you see just how much time you’re allocating to certain tasks, making your workday more productive overall.

This tool could be helpful for your personal computer in addition to your work computer – sometimes its good to know exactly how much time you’re spending on Netflix.

10. Win the Day

Win the Day is probably one of the best named apps we’ve ever come across. Who doesn’t want to “win” their day? This Chrome extension is specifically designed to remind you of and help you achieve your goals, which are displayed on your browser homepage. With “Win The Day,” you can set large goals and “sub-goals,” that will break out the subtasks that will ladder back into your big goal.

This extension also helps you build new habits — you can enter up to three new habits you want to work on within the extension and set time period you want to focus on each. The extension also includes a “Focus Mode” to thwart off-task distractions.

11. Switch

Switch is a Chrome extension app that helps you stay organized by managing your tabs, accounts and projects from a single browser. Its intuitive design facilitates the way the average busy digital worker operates — switching between projects, work and home life regularly. It cuts out the clumsy log in, log out process when working from multiple accounts, plus it gives you full visibility over all of your tabs at any time.

What’s best is it easily integrates with all of your existing applications and tools, so when you install Switch, there’s no need to change a thing. With Switch, you’ll find it much easier to stay productive, on task and in the flow.

12. Momentum

Opening-up Momentum brings you to a webpage with calm, inspirational images and sounds to help you focus and relax. Better yet, you can choose which calming backgrounds you’d like to see. So, if you feel you’d work better looking at imagery a wooded area instead of a waterfront, go for it.

13. OneTab

For those looking for a basic, straightforward productivity extension, look no further than OneTab.

We’ve all been subject to scrolling through tab after tab, losing working hours doing so. OneTab, thankfully, helps organize all those tabs into one place. OneTab puts all of them in a handy, easy-to-scroll list in, you guessed it, one tab. This will save you from clicking through each individual tab to see what they are and if you still need them open.

14. StoryXpress

StoryXpress Recorder is a flexible & lightweight Google chrome extension that lets you easily record your screen, webcam, or both. It also offers offline recording functionality, so you can continue working even without internet connection. This freemium tool is suited for remote communication with both internal and external stakeholders. Using a screen recording tool is especially useful for the distributed work environment right now, as such asynchronous communication tools can reduce zoom fatigue and long text conversation threads.

15. Aeroleads

Aeroleads is a leading email finder tool that helps you find email addresses and build email lists right from your Google web browser. Aeroloeads does the research for you, so you make your prospecting and lead generation process as productive as possible.

Simply install the Chrome extension to add leads and prospects to your Aeroleads account as you explore websites like LinkedIn, Crunchbase, or wherever else you do your client research. From there, AeroLeads will find email addresses along with the company name, company URL, job title, location and more. All this data is then stored on the default prospects page of your Aeroleads account, ready for you to begin your outreach.

16. Scribe

Scribe captures the work you’re doing and automatically creates a step-by-step guide with screenshots. Instantly document any process with Scribe’s Chrome extension, then share the guide via link or embed it in a CMS, knowledge base, or other tool. People can use Scribe to create SOPs, process maps, software documentation, and more.

17. SavvyCal

When booking a meeting through SavvyCal, recipients are shown an actual calendar that they can overlay with their own schedule and easily find a time that works. Instead of being shown a list of time slots and having to switch over to your calendar, you can do it all on one screen.

Plus, the SavvyCal Chrome Extension allows you to grab your scheduling links without having to log in to the dashboard. SavvyCal lets you rank availability —  set preferred times you’d like to meet without constraining your availability. The tool also offers frequency limits, a feature that keeps your calendar from becoming too busy, so you still have time for Deep Work.

Get the most out of the software by connecting all your calendars, this way the app can check for conflicts across all of them. You can even set which calendar you want to store each meeting in. SavvyCal also lets you send out meeting polls for group scheduling so people can vote on which times work for them.

18. ContactOut

ContactOut is a tool designed to help you find email addresses, phone numbers, and more information about your customer prospects from relevant companies in your industry. The extension can help you locate contact information from public pages on the internet and match them to the right people. You can also perform bulk searches which can save you loads of time! Contact information can then be saved to your directories in tools like Lever or Salesforce in a single click. With the email campaign feature you can easily send emails to your contacts.

You can try ContactOut for free and collect up to 40 emails and 3 phone numbers per month or try one of their subscription plans that lets you collect thousands of emails and hundreds of phone numbers per year.

19. TMetric

Wondering how to organize your work, control time, finish the necessary tasks on time, and keep it productive all day? TMetric is here to assist you in creating routines and workflows and provide an advantage in achieving a high level of efficiency. In addition to utilizing TMetric in your Google Chrome browser, you can add the timer in most of the popular systems such as Trello, and Asana to keep track of your to-do list, support keeping a work-life balance, and boost your individual productivity.

20. ChatSonic

Searching the web looking for the answers to your queries or juggling multiple tabs to come up with relevant information is a time-consuming task. Avoid this manual content creation process and make your life hassle-free with ChatSonic Chrome extension. ChatSonic by Writesonic is an AI chatbot built to improve upon the limitations of ChatGPT.  ChatSonic Chrome extension helps you to generate factual information and create mesmerizing AI images. It understands voice commands and responds; you even get an option to talk to a personalized avatar. Free up to 10,000 words per user. Paid plan starts at $12.67 per month and is ideal for bloggers, freelancers and business owners.

21. Tailwind

Tailwind AI marketing content assistant is an excellent solution for producing engaging content for social media feeds, blog posts, email campaigns, videos, and more. The AI-based Chrome extension generates natural-sounding writing, and it comes with specialized tools to help you craft the perfect content, including unique copyright-free images. You can use the copy as it is, as a first draft, or as inspiration. With Tailwind AI, you’ll have an assistant on hand to help you create content quickly and efficiently, ensuring your social accounts stay active and engaging.

So, what are you waiting for? Download one (or two, or three) of these Chrome extensions with a few clicks. Productivity awaits!

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