39,996 users in a week, 7 ratings: five single-job Chrome extensions
Five Chrome extensions that gained users in the week to 29 September 2026 - a link-warning layer, a temple-booking form filler, a New Tab toolbox, a read-aloud tool and an Etsy research sidebar - each with its movement window, its published 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 does a single job, and each one sits on the moment before a browser action: before a page opens, before a booking is submitted, before a line of text is copied, before an article is read, before a listing is written.
That narrowness is this week's news. Three of the five charge something, and two of those three sit below the band's floor. The largest gains in the band went to extensions with nothing for sale. SafeClick Guard added 39,996 users in one week to reach 40,000, on a listing that shows 7 ratings and a version last updated on 29 May. 12
The unpriced corners next door are the same portals and gestures: temple, rail and exam booking forms that thousands of people fill in by hand each morning, the next live-streaming site that inserts its ads on the server, one more marketplace whose sellers already pay for numbers about their own listings.
How to read the numbers
Install counts come from Chrome-Stats, read on 29 September 2026 beside each extension's current Web Store listing. 3 Six growth lists are the entry point into that data, and the site's two one-day lists sat behind a bot check today, so every figure below belongs to a one-week or one-month window, named in the profile where it appears.
Three of the five picks have no public 30-day growth percentage, because Chrome-Stats publishes a figure near that length only inside its top-25 percentage list. 4 Where a jump begins from a single-digit base, the absolute change is the honest number.
Voq, at 3,000 users, and RankKW, at 2,000, sit below the 5,000-user floor, and each says so inside its own profile; they are here because they are the week's only movers with a published price. Four in-band movers charge nothing at all — the largest of them, ClearKick, added 9,893 users in one week to reach 10,000 with no price on its listing or its developer's site 5 — so three in-band movers appear below beside the two priced picks from one size down.
Prices come from the publisher's own page. Each revenue figure is a scenario: current users × a paid share × the published monthly price. Where money arrives as a commission, a licence or a membership with no published price, the range is marked unavailable.
This week's five, at a glance
| Extension | Users, 29 Sep 2026 | Movement | Monetization | Illustrative MRR | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SafeClick Guard | 40,000 | +39,996 in 1 week 1 | Free, no published price | Unavailable | individual, "rileybyrneme" |
| Tirumala Darshan Assistant | 5,000 | +4,946 in 1 week 6 | Free; access code by Instagram follow | Unavailable | individual, aisandy.tech |
| Sidebar Hero | 10,000 | +1,000 in 1 week; +9,999 in 1 month 7 | In-app purchase (PRO) plus in-panel ads | Unavailable | Chengdu Xiangyou Network Technology |
| Voq | 3,000 | +2,925 in 1 week 8 | Freemium, $2/month founding rate | $60–$180 | individual, getvoq.com |
| RankKW | 2,000 | +1,999 in 1 month 9 | Subscription, $0.99–$49.99/month | $60–$420 | individual, rankkw.com |
1. SafeClick Guard: 40,000 installs and seven ratings
What the listing says
SafeClick Guard reports 40,000 users, a 5.0 rating from 7 ratings, and version 1.0.0, last updated 29 May 2026. 2 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 16 May 2026 and places it in Privacy & Security, with a risk rating of high impact: it asks for tab access, web navigation, downloads and every site. 10 The developer appears as "rileybyrneme", a non-trader with a gmail address on file and a one-page site. 2
Movement
+39,996 users in one week, with the one-day column blank. Overall store rank climbed 247,233 places and the Privacy & Security rank reached #506. The rating and the version stayed where they were. 1
Browser-only behavior
It reads a link's signals — plain HTTP, shortened URLs, punycode, IP-based hosts, login-like pages — and shows a warning page before the destination renders; download checks fire on Chrome's own download events. Cloud reputation lookups pass through a backend the extension calls at api.safe-guard.us. 11
Monetization and MRR scenario
Nothing is for sale. The listing carries no purchase label, the site publishes no price, and the only commercial object is that backend. MRR is unavailable. 11
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
A warning has to arrive before the page paints, and download events exist only inside the browser. 40,000 installs in a week against 7 ratings, with a version untouched since May, is this week's clearest opening: the demand is proven and the product behind it is thin. The two-week version is one audience that keeps meeting the same link — marketplace sellers, or people over sixty — with a support inbox one person answers. Watch the daily number for a week before building anything: an install spike that does not hold came from a campaign rather than a product.
2. Tirumala Darshan Assistant: a cluster nobody has priced
What the listing says
Tirumala Darshan Assistant reports 5,000 users, 3.3 from 3 ratings, and version 1.3.0, updated 26 September 2026. 12 New installs must enter a free access code, shared by the developer's Instagram account, and the extension runs on two government domains only: ttdevasthanams.ap.gov.in and tirupatibalaji.ap.gov.in. 12 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 27 July 2026. 13
Movement
+4,946 users in one week. Overall rank rose 88,871 places and the Workflow & Planning rank reached #728. The rating is new this week: the count went from zero to three. 6
Browser-only behavior
The darshan booking form is a web page behind a queue and a CAPTCHA. The extension types the stored pilgrim details into that form and stops there: it leaves the CAPTCHA, the slot and the payment to the user, and makes no network requests of its own. 12
Monetization and MRR scenario
Free, with an audience gate standing in for a paywall. MRR is unavailable. The cluster around it looks the same: TTD Pilgrims Manager (20,000 users, 3.82), TTD Autofill Assistant (10,000, 4.21), Tirumala Info Booking Helper (4,000, 5.0) and TTD QuickFill (2,000, 5.0) all charge nothing. 6
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
The booking exists only as a web form, and the extension's advantage over a bookmarklet is that it keeps the profiles and stays installed. Tens of thousands of installs, no paid tier, and ratings between 3.8 and 4.2 add up to the week's best unclaimed vertical. The two-week version is the portal next door — rail reservations, exam applications, appointment systems — and the test is to fill a dozen real bookings by hand before writing the first integration.
3. Sidebar Hero: the in-band pick where money changes hands
What the listing says
Sidebar Hero reports 10,000 users and version 0.1.2, updated 17 September 2026, in the Tools category, and it overrides the New Tab page. 14 The listing carries an in-app purchase label; the extension asks for tab, bookmark and history access across every site, and its privacy disclosure names personally identifiable information and web history. 14 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 28 August 2026. 15
Movement
+1,000 users in the week and +9,999 in its first month. Overall rank rose 631 places and the Tools rank sits at #4,412. 7
Browser-only behavior
It restores selection, copying, paste and the context menu on pages that suppress them, and it takes over the New Tab page — the one surface an extension can place in front of a user before they type an address. 14
Monetization and MRR scenario
An in-app purchase for a PRO tier, plus what the publisher's own policy describes as commercial promotions inside the New Tab page and its floating panel. Neither place publishes a price, so MRR is unavailable. The operator named in that policy is a company, so read its installs as a company figure. 1516
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
Copy blocking is enforced by page script, so the browser is where the native gesture can be handed back. The New Tab page is the paid part, and the policy is unusually explicit about what runs there. The two-week version of the same surface keeps one unlock gesture, asks for less than history and bookmarks, and competes on collecting nothing.
4. Voq: a daily cap and a two-dollar door
What the listing says
Voq reports 3,000 users, 4.78 from 18 ratings, and version 4.52, updated 27 September 2026. 17 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 26 May 2026 and places it in Accessibility; the only contact published is a personal address on the product's own domain. 8
Movement
+2,925 users in one week, from a base of 75. Overall rank rose 74,171 places, the Accessibility rank reached #1,751, and the rating climbed 0.28 in the same window. 8 At 3,000 users it sits below the 5,000-user floor: a borderline pick, included because its curve is the week's only paid one.
Browser-only behavior
Highlight text, right-click, listen. The default voice is Chrome's own speech engine, so nothing leaves the machine; the natural AI voice sends the selection to the developer's relay and Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and discards it afterwards. Articles, PDFs and email are what keep it installed. 1718
Monetization and MRR scenario
Freemium with a published price: the natural voice is free up to a daily limit, and unlimited listening costs $2 a month at a founding rate that the listing says will rise to $5, paid through a Stripe checkout without an account. 17 Scenario: 3,000 × 1%–3% × $2 = $60–$180 a month.
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
The text sits in the tab, and the read-aloud gesture belongs where the text is; the free tier runs on the browser's own voice, which costs the developer nothing. The category is crowded — Speechify, Read Aloud and a long tail of speech extensions — and Voq's wedge is the cap and the price. The test for the same wedge is whether one audience that reads long text daily hits the cap often enough to pay to lift it.
5. RankKW: a published ladder and a rating count that does not fit
What the listing says
RankKW reports 2,000 users, 4.98 from 413 ratings with 26 added in the last week, and version 1.1.7, updated 24 September 2026. 19 Chrome-Stats dates its creation to 27 August 2026, gives the publisher an address in Pakistan, and shows the extension reading Etsy pages with a free rankkw.com account behind it. 9
Movement
+1,999 users over one month, its first, from a base of one. No one-week figure is published, and the overall store rank slipped 33 places in the week. 9 At 2,000 users it is the second borderline pick, below the band.
Browser-only behavior
It draws estimated sales, revenue, views, favourites, listing age and a tag breakdown onto Etsy's own search and listing pages, in a sidebar and a data bar beneath each product. Etsy's API belongs to the seller, so the numbers arrive because a browser can sit on top of a page Etsy already renders. 19
Monetization and MRR scenario
The extension is free and the platform behind it is not: Free, Starter $0.99, Basic $2.99, Pro $6.99, Pro annual $99.99, Business $19.99, Agency $39.99 and Enterprise $49.99 a month, with a local bank-transfer route from Rs 270. 20 Scenario: 2,000 × 1%–3% × $2.99–$6.99 = $60–$420 a month. The store-visible weakness is the rating count: 413 ratings against 2,000 installs is an unusually high ratio on this store.
Why Chrome, and where the opening is
Etsy sellers work inside Etsy all day, and the alternative to an overlay is copying a keyword into another site. The ladder is the lesson: an entry tier under a dollar, a middle at $7, and an agency tier for people who manage several shops. The two-week version is one metric for one marketplace — fee maths, shipping estimates or sold-out signals — drawn over Mercari, Poshmark or Depop.
The two-week shortlist
RankKW answers the most questions: a published ladder, a solo publisher, and a product behind the extension. Check the rating ratio before copying the model. Tirumala Darshan Assistant holds the best unclaimed vertical of the week — proven demand, weak incumbents, no price anywhere — and a paid version of it belongs on the portal next door.
Voq is the cheapest paid wedge here: one gesture, one limit, $2 a month. Sidebar Hero is the one in-band pick where money already changes hands, and its permission list is the reason a smaller competitor can take the same surface. SafeClick Guard is the number to beat — 40,000 installs in a week against 7 ratings — which reads less like a product than a vacancy.
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References
- 1SafeClick Guard trends, Chrome-Stats, 29 September 2026
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- 2SafeClick Guard on the Chrome Web Store
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- 3Chrome-Stats one-week growth list, 29 September 2026
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- 4Chrome-Stats one-month growth list, 29 September 2026
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- 5ClearKick trends, Chrome-Stats, 29 September 2026
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- 7Sidebar Hero trends, Chrome-Stats, 29 September 2026
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- 8Voq overview, Chrome-Stats, 29 September 2026
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- 9RankKW overview, Chrome-Stats, 29 September 2026
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- 10SafeClick Guard overview, Chrome-Stats
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- 11SafeClick Guard
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- 12Tirumala Darshan Assistant on the Chrome Web Store
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- 13Tirumala Darshan Assistant overview, Chrome-Stats
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- 14Sidebar Hero on the Chrome Web Store
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- 15Sidebar Hero overview, Chrome-Stats
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- 16Sidebar Hero privacy policy
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- 17Voq on the Chrome Web Store
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- 18Voq
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- 19RankKW on the Chrome Web Store
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- 20Rankkw pricing
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