70,000 users for free, $3 a month for 787: five Chrome extensions that moved
Five Chrome extensions that gained users in the week to 6 October 2026 - a free page-mod agent, a game-code redeemer, a search-engine swap, a $3 WhatsApp autocorrect and a $9.99 hover dictionary - each with its movement window, its price or the reason there is none, and a two-week clone angle.
Every extension that moved inside this week's 5,000-to-200,000-user band hangs off a single browser gesture. One sentence typed into a side panel. One list pasted into a redeem page. One query in the address bar. One keystroke instead of Enter. One hover.
That narrowness is this week's niche, and this week's news sits beside it. The band's biggest movers give their core job away: a free page-rewriting agent took 70,000 users, a free game-code redeemer took 10,000 in ten days. The extension that charges a subscription sits one size below the floor, at 787 users, and it is selling. A free tool took 70,000 installs; a $3-a-month tool took 787. That gap is where this week's openings are.
The corners next door hold the same gesture unpriced: appointment and permit portals that still need typing, one more marketplace whose sellers pay for numbers about their own listings, and the second language no one has shipped a dictionary for.
How to read the numbers
Install counts and movement come from Chrome-Stats, read on 6 October 2026 beside each extension's current Chrome Web Store listing. 1 Six growth lists are the entry point into that data. The two one-day lists sat behind a bot check today, so every figure below belongs to a one-week or one-month window, named where it appears.
Those lists have a blind spot. They sort by the size of the change, so a percentage list can be led by a jump from one user to 787 while an extension gaining 3,000 users never appears; this week's absolute-delta lists held only million-user apps. Mid-band movers are invisible in both unless the move is unusually large, so every figure here is quoted from its list, with its window. 2
Three of the five picks are monetized: two carry a published price and one earns from the search engine it installs. The two that are free are exactly the two the band rewarded most.
Prices come from the publisher's own page. Each revenue figure is a scenario: current users × a paid share × the published price. Where that share cannot be derived — the money is an undisclosed referral rate, or the price is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription — the range is labelled accordingly rather than forced into a monthly number.
Two picks sit below the 5,000-user floor and say so inside their own profiles. They are here because they are the week's only movers with a published price.
This week's five, at a glance
| Extension | Users, 6 Oct 2026 | Movement | Monetization | Illustrative MRR | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PageMod | 70,000 | +69,992 in 1 month 2 | Free, no price | Unavailable | Hangzhou Shangming Technology (company) |
| Auto Redeem Code Delta Force | 10,000 | +9,955 in 1 week 1 | Free; donations | Unavailable | individual, "vietthongblogger" |
| Search Sense | 5,000 | +4,996 in 1 month 2 | Search referral | Unavailable | Astras Novei LTD (company) |
| ChatPolish | 787 | +786 in 1 week 1 | $3/month or ~$25/year | $24–$71 | AEH Holdings LLC (company) |
| WordCatch | 801 | +799 in 1 week 1 | $9.99 once | Not recurring | individual, J. Chesneau |
1. PageMod: 70,000 users and nothing for sale
What the listing says
PageMod reports 70,000 users, a 5.0 rating from 2 ratings, and version 1.0.4, updated 5 October 2026. 3 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 13 August 2026 and places it in Tools with a "very high risk impact" rating: it asks for tabs, cookies, userScripts, clipboard write and the side panel, and it reads website content. 4 Its publisher, Hangzhou Shangming Technology Company Limited, is a registered company rather than a solo developer.
Movement
+69,992 users in one month, the largest gain on the one-month percentage list, from a base of eight. 2 Chrome-Stats' own snapshot beside the user count reads ▲66,000, and the overall store rank climbed 13,013 places to #2,909. 4
Browser-only behavior
Describe a change to the page in plain words — "hide the ads on this site", "auto-fill this form" — and the extension writes a persistent userscript that keeps working after the tab closes. It edits pages that belong to somebody else, in the browser you are already reading them in.
Monetization and MRR scenario
Nothing is for sale. The publisher's own site offers a lifetime token quota — 500,000 tokens for a guest, 1,000,000 after sign-up — and states that quotas are never revoked and never expire. 5 No purchase is offered anywhere, so MRR is unavailable.
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
A userscript has to run against the live page's own DOM and survive the session, which is a browser's job and not a web app's. But 70,000 installs on two ratings, seven weeks after a launch that began at eight users, is the thinnest quality evidence on this list: whatever produced that curve, almost nobody has reviewed the thing. Watch the daily number for a week before copying it. The two-week version is narrower — one site family a specific group types into daily, such as a ticketing portal or a clinic's admin tool, and one persistent fix sold to the people who repeat that task.
2. Auto Redeem Code Delta Force: the only in-band mover with a seven-day figure
What the listing says
The extension reports 10,000 users, a 5.0 rating from 13 ratings — eight of them added in the last week — and version 1.8.1, updated 1 October 2026. 6 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 26 September 2026; the listing is Vietnamese, published by "vietthongblogger", with a personal name, Dylan Tran, in the description. 7
Movement
+9,955 users in one week, from a base of 45 — the only extension inside the band on the one-week percentage list. The overall store rank climbed 101,293 places to #9,034. 17
Browser-only behavior
Paste a list of Garena gift codes and the extension types them into the redeem page one at a time, at a chosen pace, then reports what happened to each code. It can also lift codes out of a screenshot with on-device OCR, so a code seen in a Facebook post or a Discord image does not have to be retyped.
Monetization and MRR scenario
Free. A donation tab carries a VietQR code, and the description says support is voluntary and changes nothing about how the tool works. There is no purchase label and no price, so MRR is unavailable. 6
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
The redeem page exists only as a logged-in web page, the session belongs to the browser, and nothing outside the browser can type into it. Ten days from creation to 10,000 users, on 13 ratings, is scale without a business model. The two-week version is another repeat-typing page nobody enjoys: a different game's code redemption, a loyalty counter, an event registration.
3. Search Sense: the one in-band mover already earning
What the listing says
Search Sense reports 5,000 users, a 3.0 rating from 2 ratings, and version 4.0.0, updated 2 October 2026. 8 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 24 August 2026. 9 The publisher is Astras Novei LTD, with a Tel Aviv address, an EU trader declaration and a D-U-N-S number — a registered company rather than an individual. 8
Movement
+4,996 users in one month from a base of four, on the one-month percentage list; no one-week figure for it appeared in the lists read today. 29
Browser-only behavior
Install it and the address bar resolves searches through a Yahoo-powered results page instead of the engine you chose. Only the browser decides what the address bar resolves to, and only an extension can be handed that setting.
Monetization and MRR scenario
This is a search-referral business: the money is a share of the ad revenue the searches produce, not a price the user pays. No rate is published and the payout per search is not public, so the model can be named but the figure cannot be derived — MRR is unavailable. Flag the revenue as referral income tied to search data rather than to a product sold. Chrome-Stats rates the risk "moderate" for exactly the reason a reader would worry: an extension that can change search providers can also redirect searches. 8
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
The whole product is one setting the browser owns, which is why these are cheap to build and why the store carries hundreds of them. The caution sits in the rating: 3.0 from two reviewers, on an extension that changes a setting its users did not mean to change. Readers who want that money without the trust cost come at it sideways — a comparison bar, a price checker, or a coupon layer on pages people already shop on.
4. ChatPolish: $3 a month, 787 users, one website
What the listing says
ChatPolish reports 787 users, no ratings yet, and version 1.4.17, updated 30 September 2026. 10 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 24 September 2026 and shows it running on one host only, web.whatsapp.com, with "very high risk impact" because it reads and writes the message composer. 11 AEH Holdings LLC, its publisher, is a United States company with support on the product's own domain. 10
Movement
+786 users in one week from a base of one, the largest percentage gain on the one-week list — a figure that is mostly a property of that base, so the absolute change is the honest number. 1 At 787 users it sits below the 5,000-user floor: a borderline pick, here because it is the week's only moving extension with a real subscription price.
Browser-only behavior
Autocorrect fires inside the WhatsApp Web composer as you type, against a local 160,000-word dictionary, and flags ambiguous typos instead of guessing. The optional AI review runs only on Ctrl+Enter and sends the message straight from the browser to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini using the user's own API key.
Monetization and MRR scenario
A seven-day trial with everything included, then $3 a month or about $25 a year, and one subscription covers every computer the buyer uses Chrome on. 12 Scenario: 787 × 1%–3% × $3 = $24–$71 a month.
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
Desktop WhatsApp has no autocorrect because the corrections a phone keyboard makes belong to the operating system, not the web page; only something sitting inside the page can fix a message before Send. The wedge is deliberately tiny — one site, one keystroke, one price low enough to be an impulse. A correction layer is also the kind of thing every language needs, and the dictionaries for most of them are not on the store yet.
5. WordCatch: $9.99 once, 801 users, every page
What the listing says
WordCatch reports 801 users, no ratings yet, and version 1.4.0, updated 1 October 2026, with an "offers in-app purchases" label. 13 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 24 September 2026 and shows it reading every site — its content script matches all URLs — while sending only the hovered word to a translation service. 14 The publisher is Justin Chesneau, an individual developer in France who identifies himself as an EU trader: a solo build, not a company. 13
Movement
+799 users in one week from a base of two — third on the one-week percentage list, and, like the pick above, a percentage that belongs mostly to its base. 1 At 801 users it is the second borderline pick, below the floor.
Browser-only behavior
Hover any word on any page for half a second and its translation appears beside it; one click starts a ten-second quiz, and words the reader does not know come back on a spaced schedule. The text being read is in the tab, so the dictionary has to live there too.
Monetization and MRR scenario
Free gets unlimited hover translations and five new words a day; Premium is a one-time $9.99 that unlocks unlimited words, long-term memory, charts and Anki export. 15 A one-time purchase is not recurring revenue, so the honest figure is a one-off range rather than MRR: 801 × 1%–3% × $9.99 ≈ $80–$240 in single sales, with every later buyer adding to it without adding to a monthly number.
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
The tool is only useful where the reading happens, and a mobile app cannot see the page you are on. The category is crowded — Read Frog, Rememberry and a long tail of translate-and-memorise extensions — so the price and the free tier are the differentiation, not the idea. The two-week version is one audience whose vocabulary matters: a language exam, a certification, a field with its own jargon.
The two-week shortlist
WordCatch answers the most questions at once: a solo publisher, a published price, and a product that fits in one gesture. ChatPolish is the cheapest subscription wedge here, the only new mover that both charges and is small enough to catch. Auto Redeem Code Delta Force is the number to beat — 10,000 users in ten days with nothing for sale, which reads less like a product than a vacancy. PageMod's curve is the week's biggest and its evidence the thinnest; watch it for seven days before copying anything.
Two free movers inside the band missed the five: Splash Wallet, a self-custodial EVM wallet, added about 10,000 users in a month with no published price 16, and Snap Search New Tab added about 8,000 the same way. Neither sells anything yet, which is the opening the priced picks are taking.
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References
- 1Chrome-Stats one-week growth list, 6 October 2026
chrome-stats.com
- 2Chrome-Stats one-month growth list, 6 October 2026
chrome-stats.com
- 3PageMod on the Chrome Web Store
chromewebstore.google.com
- 4PageMod overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
- 5PageMod
aipagemod.com
- 6Auto Redeem Code Delta Force on the Chrome Web Store
chromewebstore.google.com
- 7Auto Redeem Code Delta Force overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
- 8Search Sense on the Chrome Web Store
chromewebstore.google.com
- 9Search Sense overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
- 10ChatPolish on the Chrome Web Store
chromewebstore.google.com
- 11ChatPolish overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
- 12ChatPolish
chatpolish.com
- 13WordCatch on the Chrome Web Store
chromewebstore.google.com
- 14WordCatch overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
- 15WordCatch pricing
getwordcatch.com
- 16Splash Wallet overview, Chrome-Stats
chrome-stats.com
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