9 Gmail add-ons: the best Gmail extensions for Chrome

If you’ve never used an add-on before, fear not! Installing add-ons is easy as 1-2-3 and can be done in just a few clicks.

Step 1: Launch the Chrome Web Store in the Chrome browser. You can view all available Chrome add-ons here, including Gmail extensions.

Step 2: Pick a desired Gmail add-on, click on the corresponding extension and then on “Add to Chrome” to the right.

Step 3: Confirm your selection by clicking on “Add extension”.

Functions:

• Provides time-shifted, automated sending of emails.
• Messages to colleagues, clients or friends are not sent immediately, but at a specified time, facilitating forward task planning
• Handy for sending group/mass emails
• Sends reminders of unanswered mails and archives received emails
• Offers various templates, AI-assisted writing, and read receipts

Useful for:

• Customer service operations to provide customers with quality and timely messages
• For HR management to send and schedule recruiting emails on time
• Forward-thinking users who may need to schedule their emails

Functions:

• Script-based tracking of all email activities
• Read/open receipt for sent emails
• Real-time notifications if an email was read
• Analysis of email activities in clear dashboard

Useful for:

• Users sharing newsletters
• HR managers monitoring recruiting activities
• Boards of directors and B2B marketers

Functions:

• Locks the Gmail inbox for a specified period of time until existing mails are processed
• Hides inbox after specified period of time
• Inbox remains active, but doesn’t alert user with inbox notifications
• Limits the number or duration of inbox visits if desired

Useful for:

• Users with high mail volume
• Users who prefer to work through emails in a disciplined manner within fixed time frames without being distracted by notifications

Functions:

• Provides a clean, simplified Gmail layout and interface
• Attractive, minimalist design that highlights the most important screen elements in the inbox

Useful for:

• Users who want to focus on the essentials of email without getting distracted or losing track of what’s going on

Functions:

• Provides note and comment functions to annotate emails
• Optimizes inbox clarity and shortens reacquaintance with current or past conversations

Useful for:

• Customer service, marketing, or operations staff
• Users who communicate intensively with many people and need to swap between topics or discussions quickly

Functions:

• Customized and personalized email signatures
• Add photos, comments, notes, contact information, social media profiles, and more to personal or business email signatures.

Useful for:

• Corporate/business emails
• Recruiting, application, marketing, and sales
• Suitable for creatives who want to draw attention to current or past projects and platforms as part of their email signature

Functions:

• Marks and blocks mail trackers in incoming messages.
• Alerts of hidden tracking pixels in emails.

Useful for:

• Users who value privacy and do not want to be tracked and monitored by hidden mail trackers

Functions:

• Users can set a time period after which a reminder is sent for mails that have been sent but are still unanswered.
• Follow-up functions enable keeping an eye on outstanding replies even when high volumes of emails are sent, so that users can follow up again.

Useful for:

• Marketing and sales staff
• B2B customer acquisition
• Customer service and accounting

Functions:

• Combines Gmail with practical CRM extensions
• Filter function for customer information and automated overview
• Pipelining of business processes
• Creation of subfolders (e.g. for business deals, sales, or presentations)
• Time-controlled sending of mails
• An alternative CRM system for small businesses
• Personalized summary of mail traffic

Useful for:

• Customer service and customer management
• Marketing, sales, and distribution
• Start-ups and freelancers