As the year draws to a close, WIDHIDI is sharing some of our most easy-to-use and helpful Chrome extensions, whether you’re looking to maximize productivity, ‘chat’ with a pdf file, or simply shop on your own terms.

AI browsing companions

AI transformed the browser this year, turning Chrome into a proactive assistant.

• Monica and Sider – stand out as all-in-one powerhouses allowing users to chat with PDFs, summarize web pages and draft content without breaking flow.

• HARPA AI – Is for those who want to automate the web, blending AI with web automation, tracking price drops and monitoring data changes.

• Quillbot – Acts as an essential writing partner, offering advanced paraphrasing, grammar checking and AI-powered text generation to ensure your writing is always polished and professional.

Creativity and comparison

While AI is a major theme as of late, some favorite extensions celebrate human creativity and just make getting things done on the web easier.

• Adobe Photoshop – Adobe brought their editing tools directly to the browser, making it easier than ever to perfect an image on the fly. Plus, get 12 months free access to Photoshop through Dec 8, 2025.

• Phia – Smart shopping is all about comparison and this extension acts as a personal shopping assistant. Instead of endless tab-switching to compare costs, Phia automatically finds the best price with a single click, giving you the final say on where your money goes.

Developer Tools

• Detailed SEO Extension – This tool offers SEO insights at the click of a button to any website you’re currently on. Built by full-time SEO’s for daily analysis users get SEO-related insights at the click of a button to any website you’re currently on. Pull back their title tag, meta description, meta robots tag and much more. One can save hours of time looking through the source code of this page with our SEO analysis extension.

• Squarespace ID Finder – Find the IDs of collections, sections, and blocks on your Squarespace page. Works with both 7.0 and 7.1. You don’t have to waste time searching through the code with dev tools looking for an id. Click on the icon to see every id from collections, index pages, sections, and blocks on your page. Then, simply click on the id to copy it and use it in your own code.

• Robots Exclusion Checker – Is an extension designed to visually indicate whether any robots exclusions are preventing your page from being crawled or indexed by Search Engines. It checks robots.txt, meta robots, x-robots-tag with URL alerts, canonical warnings, and HTTP header info.

• ColorZilla – This extension is a user friendly, full-featured, secure and reliable color picker and color related suite of tools. It is one of the most popular Chrome and Firefox developer extensions with over 10 million downloads worldwide. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. It features advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies.