Best AI Chrome Extensions to Supercharge Your Browsing in 2025

AI productivity tools are becoming a mainstay in businesses today. DigitalOcean’s 2025 Currents report found that 36% of organizations already use AI tools, of which 26% use them to improve internal processes and automate workflows. Developers use them to automate tasks like document writing, meeting transcription, code review, and knowledge gathering, ultimately enabling them to focus on the projects they enjoy and provide larger business value.

Using AI for automation and productivity doesn’t have to be an extensive process; developers can start right at their web browser. AI Chrome extensions are a straightforward way to use AI applications with a few clicks. They can integrate specific application features into Chrome and customize your browsing experience to fit your daily workflow.

Let’s examine how AI Chrome extensions can boost your productivity, their main use cases, and which ones you should install.

What are AI Chrome extensions?

Chrome extensions help you customize your browser experience to fit your needs and preferences. This includes buttons, menus, and toolbars to simplify tasks, modify website appearances and behavior, and integrate with external applications and services. You can either add them from the Chrome Web Store or build them yourself using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

AI Chrome extensions are browser versions of AI desktop applications, such as CoPilot or Grammarly. These extensions help you interact with multiple applications directly from your web browser, sync content between your browser and desktop and mobile applications, and automate desired tasks.

Use AI extensions to enhance browsing

Even with their capabilities, you might still wonder how AI Chrome extensions can improve the overall web browsing experience. Integrating these extensions can help increase:

• Productivity: Use productivity tool extensions to summarize items, generate text, automate tasks, reduce overall manual effort, and do more in less time. It can also decrease time spent switching between applications or looking for specific information.

• Customization: AI extensions can learn your preferences over time for writing styles, types of documents to save, and general browsing preferences. This leads to a more customized experience that doesn’t require you to constantly update it or re-enter your preferences from time to time.

• Collaboration: Chrome extensions are easy to connect with communication apps and across browsers and devices. This helps you get the information you need across your devices, saving you time from constantly transferring information.

Use cases for AI Chrome extensions

There is certainly no shortage of Chrome extensions, with over a hundred thousand options that help to create the browsing and workflow experience that best suits your needs. There are extensions for web appearance, news, communication, retail, social network, and games. But the most common use cases you’ll use AI Chrome extensions include:

• Coding: These extensions offer assistance when it comes to code review, editing, debugging, REST API connections, extraction, formatting, and testing. Chrome also has a variety of tools to build your own AI extension if you can’t find what you’re looking for in its webstore.

• Productivity: These extensions can streamline your workflows by saving bookmarks and passwords, scheduling meetings, assisting with email inbox management, generating to-do lists, and recording on-screen content.

• Summarization: Spend less time deciphering content across the web as these extensions can quickly summarize webpages, PDFs, YouTube videos, and shared documents.

• Writing: You can leverage AI to generate and edit text with specific Chrome extensions. Whether it’s writing an email, filling out forms, or composing a document, the extension can detect fillable fields and help provide whatever type of copy that you need.

Best AI Chrome extensions

Chrome extensions that use AI fall into a few main categories: content creation, productivity, and developer tools. With thousands of options just within these categories, you might be wondering where to begin and what features each extension can offer. Here’s a list of some of the top AI Chrome extensions to get you started:

1. ChatGPT for Google

ChatGPT for Google lets you integrate ChatGPT’s capabilities into Chrome and use it to get answers, create text responses, and provide relevant information whenever necessary. It supports advanced text generation, responses based on webpage information, and assistance with tasks such as problem solving, coding, and writing. It can also provide multilingual support and integrates across websites.

Key features:

• AI tools for DeepSeek R1, AI image generator, AI detector, AI mind map maker, AI video generator, and AI math solver.

• YouTube summary capabilities

• ImageTools for image editing with AI

• AI resume scanner and invoice scanner

2. Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai, an AI-based transcription extension, saves time spent notetaking and annotating action items. You can set it to automatically record Google Meet meetings and provide a full transcript and audio after they are over. It provides live transcription, automatic speaker detection, language detection, and transcription support for over 100 languages. It will also scan for and automatically generate action items, summarize important information, provide meeting analytics, and make it easy to share transcripts and soundbites with colleagues.

Key features:

• Record and transcribe meetings and calls from your browser for Google Meet

• Create notes along with the automatic audio transcription

• Transcript search capabilities

• Automatic language and speaker detection

3. Glasp AI

Ideal for knowledge gathering and sharing, Glasp AI makes it simple to summarize, highlight, and share knowledge and important information from your browsing sessions. You can directly highlight knowledge from the desired webpage or YouTube video, and it’ll collect everything and provide a searchable repository that you can organize, annotate, tag, share, and sync across devices.

Key features:

• Highlight and annotate web text, YouTube videos, PDFs, and images

• YouTube summaries via ChatGPT and Claude

• Copy and paste highlights and notes into external apps

• Make notes on highlights and create tags for easy retrieval

4. Grammarly

An established AI writing assistant, this extension can easily provide feedback on spelling, punctuation, grammar, and word choice for whatever you write in the Chrome browser. You can build out your own style guide and dictionary to include preferences for wording, punctuation, and acronyms. Beyond proofreading and editing capabilities, Grammarly can also provide plagiarism detection, vocabulary enhancements, and tone guidelines for whatever you decide to write.

Key features:

• Checks for grammar, spelling, and punctuation

• Automatic citation generation

• Integration of custom style guides and organization dictionaries

• Reviews for clarity, tone, and vocabulary

5. Jasper

Jasper helps with content creation and removes the need to have another Chrome tab where you ask prompts, provide feedback, and tweak your AI-generated responses. It integrates with Gmail, Google Docs, WordPress, Webflow, Google BigQuery, and other applications so you can quickly create content, refine it, and save content creation preferences. You can use these features with content creation and iteration, as Jasper’s machine learning algorithms can analyze copy and provide predictive recommendations.

Key features:

• Over 60+ content templates for platforms such as Gmail, Google BigQuery, and Google Docs.

• Writes content in over 80 languages

• Can summarize, rewrite, and repurpose content with a one-sentence prompt

• Generates content from a completely blank page for blog posts, social media, reports, and product campaigns.

6. Merlin

AI-based assistant Merlin makes it easy for you to research, write, and review content, with access to multiple AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral, and DeepSeek). Along with page summarization, content generation, and code assistance, it can also analyze your most repetitive tasks and suggest ways to integrate automation and reduce time spent on frequently performed administrative tasks. It also lets you select your preferred AI model, providing access to specific models without downloading another application or opening another Chrome tab.

Key features:

• Real-time file integration that lets you access data, webpages, and documents

• Access over 70 AI tools through one extension

• Save and store your top and most-used prompts

• Instant code generation with any integrated AI model from Merlin’s chat

7. Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI supports topic research and AI-powered search. It can provide direct answers to complex questions, integrate knowledge from multiple sources, allow for follow-up questions and clarifications, and include source citations. It can also gather information from multiple sources, provide webpage summaries, direct search capabilities from the Google search bar, and generate content for emails and code.

Key features:

• Web page summarization and search engine integration

• Customized answers and solutions based on search habits and tasks

• Connected links that make responses easy to share

• Ability to ask follow-up questions to responses and provide feedback.

8. Qodo Merge

Qodo Merge, an AI-powered code review extension, lets you automate GitHub pull requests, highlight changes, suggest improvements, and streamline configuration export. It will conduct code reviews, provide code suggestions with a simple command, generate pull request descriptions, and evaluate adherence to company best practices. The extension is completely compatible with open source repositories and requires a paid account to work with private repositories.

Key features:

• Automated code reviews and AI-powered chat in pull requests

• Automatically generated pull request descriptions

• Private chat sessions for your own personal notes and reference

• Streamlined configuration export capabilities

AI Chrome extension FAQs

What is the best AI Chrome extension in 2025?

The best AI Chrome extension will depend on what you want to use it for. AI Chrome extensions are available for various tasks such as summarization, project management, scheduling, and coding.

Can AI Chrome extensions work offline?

Yes, but it depends on the extension itself. Not all extensions have offline synchronization capabilities or are able to work offline.

Are these tools secure to use while browsing?

Yes. Google Chrome reviews extensions before they are listed in its web store. However, if you are still uncertain, you can read the documentation and security details directly from the developer.

How do these extensions compare to standalone apps?

Google Chrome extensions are usually more limited in function and system scope. They often focus on application-based solutions that are based on what the user can do within the web browser and don’t have full OS access. They can also only run when the web browser is online, unless it can support offline data synchronization.

Do AI Chrome extensions slow down your browser?

Yes, using Chrome extensions can affect your performance, including page load times, increased memory use, and lag between tab switching or scrolling. The number of installed extensions, permission levels, background scripts, and poorly optimized code all affect performance.

Resources

• How To Create an Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code

• DigitalOcean Toolbox Browser Extension

• How to Use Chrome Dev Tools to Find Performance Bottlenecks

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