6 Free Chrome Extensions that Actually Save Me 15+ Hours Every Week

Auto-write emails, block ads, kill distractions, learn faster, and more

Neeramitra Reddy
The Startup
Published in
7 min readApr 18, 2023

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188,620.

That’s the number of Chrome extensions in existence today!

Every Joe and Joanna who knows basic programming can whip together a Chrome extension. Heck! With ChatGPT, you don’t even need to know to code. The result?

A gutter of “genius” extensions like Cloud to Butt Pluswhich replaces “The Cloud” with “My Butt” and “Cloud” with “Butt.”

Screenshot by the author

As a digital writer, software developer, and web explorer, I’ve tried 100s of extensions — but only a handful have been useful enough to survive the “Uninstall” button.

Even fewer have been game-changing enough to save me thousands of cumulative hours.

I want to share 6 such gem-like extensions — so useful it almost feels illegal that they’re free.

Auto-write emails. Block ads. Kill distractions. Learn much faster. Research deeper and quicker on the go. Speed up your workflows. Stay focused on your work.

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Neeramitra Reddy
The Startup

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