The 5 Best Chrome Extensions to Boost ChatGPT’s Potential

Ulysse Wolff

September 9, 2024

Remote Works

What is a Chrome Extension for ChatGPT?

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What is a Chrome Extension ?

A Chrome extension is a small software program that customizes and enhances the functionality of the Google Chrome web browser. With more than 100,000 Chrome extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, the range of possibilities is immense and extensions can significantly improve productivity, security, and overall user experience on Google Chrome.

How can you Leverage Chrome Extension for ChatGPT Use?

Chrome extensions work particularly well with ChatGPT:

Easy Accessibility: Chrome extensions are usually accessible from Chrome’s toolbar, which improves the user experience and increases your productivity (you’re able to do what you want quicker).
Extended Functionality: Chrome extensions have many different purposes and can respond to almost any need.
Customization: Chrome extensions also allow you to customize your experience, with dark mode for instance.

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Why Should you Use a Chrome Extension for ChatGPT ?

There are many benefits to using Chrome extensions for ChatGPT:

Quicker Access: As Chrome extensions are accessible from Chrome’s toolbar, you can use them to ask questions to ChatGPT more easily and quickly. Basically, instead of opening a new tab dedicated to ChatGPT, some extensions allow you to simply click on their icon to start a conversation with ChatGPT.
Improved User Experience: Chrome extensions simplify the use of ChatGPT with the possibility of customizing the interface (dark mode) or improve its accessibility (requests using voice command for instance).
Increased Functionality: Chrome extensions can leverage the power of ChatGPT for other use cases. You can almost find a ChatGPT extension to facilitate any task you could think of.
More Security: Chrome extensions can also improve the security while using ChatGPT, by protecting your data and minimizing tracking.

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The 5 Best Chrome Extensions for ChatGPT

Sider, the Best for Quick Requests

Sider is a well known Chrome extension for ChatGPT that facilitates the use of ChatGPT. Here are its main features:

Easy Access: By clicking on the Sider logo on your toolbar, you can start a conversation with ChatGPT directly on the right side of your screen. You can ask anything without leaving your current page.

Group Chat: Sider allows you to have conversations with different AIs simultaneously. You can ask a question and compare the answers from GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and more.

Context: As you can activate Sider on any webpage, you can use it to provide information about the webpage, image, or video you’re viewing.

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ChatGPT for Google, the Best Google Assistant

ChatGPT for Google is a must-have Chrome extension that simplifies your web searches thanks to several features:

Web Search Assistant: When you search something on the web, ChatGPT for Google will automatically display ChatGPT responses alongside regular search engine results.

Different AIs included: ChatGPT for Google can display the responses of different AIs such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, Google Bard, and Claude so you can choose the best one.
Start a Conversation: From the automatic responses ChatGPT for Google gives you, you can start a conversation to obtain more specific information.

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ChatGPT Writer, the Best Writing Assistant

ChatGPT Writer is a versatile Chrome extension that allows you to easily use ChatGPT to assist with your email and other text creation.

Its main features are:

Writing Assistant: By highlighting text, you can use ChatGPT Writer to ask anything you want: fix grammar, improve writing, translate, and more.

Gmail Integration: ChatGPT Writer integrates with Gmail to automatically write the best answers to the emails you receive

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Writing Tone: ChatGPT Writer can generate text in 5 different tones, and can automatically adapt a text to the tone of another text.

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AIPRM, the Best Prompt Generator for ChatGPT

AIPRM is a bit different from the previous Chrome extensions I introduced. It helps you find the best prompts for your ChatGPT requests. Here are its main features:

Large Collection of Prompts: AIPRM gives you access to a large collection of 4500+ prompts for ChatGPT

Customization: Once you’ve selected a prompt, you can customize the output you expect from ChatGPT by selecting the language, tone and writing style you want.

Create your Own Prompts: AIPRM is also equipped with a feature allowing you to create your own prompts and saving them for easy use in the future.

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Bonus: Dark Reader, if you Need Dark Mode on ChatGPT

If you want to put ChatGPT in Dark Mode, you can use the Chrome extension Dark Reader. It’s very easy to use as you just have to download the extension and activate it like that:

It’s as simple as that, and you can enjoy ChatGPT’s Dark Mode:

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How to Install and Use a Chrome Extension ?

Step 1: Find the Chrome Extension you Want to Use

To find a Chrome extension that could increase your productivity or help you in any other way, you can think of your needs and do a Web search. Or you can directly go to the Chrome Web Store where many interesting extensions are suggested.

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Step 2: Download the Chrome Extension

Once you’ve found the extension you want to use on the Chrome Web Store, you just have to click on the “Add to Google Chrome” button to download it.

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Step 3: Grant Permissions

In most cases, the Chrome extension needs you to grant some permissions to be fully operational. When the download is complete, a pop-up window will appear asking you to grant these permissions, so you just have to do so.

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Step 4: Pin the Chrome Extension

If you don’t already have many Chrome extensions and/or want to use the one you just downloaded on priority, it could be interesting to pin it to the toolbar.

First you need to find the extension you just downloaded. It’s quite simple, you just have to click on the “Extensions” icon you can find on the right of Chrome’s search bar:

Now you just have to click on the “Pin” button on the right of the extension you want to pin. Here we want to pin ChatGPT got Google

That’s it! The extension is now pinned and accessible directly from the toolbar.

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Step 5: Enjoy Using your Chrome Extension!

Once the extension is pinned, you just have to click on it to use it. Enjoy!

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Discover Claap and Make your Productivity Skyrocket!

If you’re interested in Chrome extensions, I assume you could be looking for ways to increase your productivity. In this case, you have to try Claap !

What is Claap?

Claap is originally a meeting assistant. It helps you manage your meetings more effectively as it transcribes the audio and video of your meetings and also has a recording feature. No need for note taking anymore, and no need to summarize your notes as Claap is equipped with AI features and does it for you.

Discover Asynchronous Meetings with Claap

Claap isn’t only a meeting assistant. It’s also an asynchronous meeting tool that introduces a new way of communicating using claaps: 2 to 5-minute videos you can record easily using Claap’s interface. It’s very simple: you just click on a button and you can record your screen while having your camera on. This way, it’s very easy to show anything you’d want to show during a synchronous meeting, and the experience is very similar. Once your claap is recorded, you can send it to your teammates or even external people like prospects or clients.

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