A helping hand is always good.
Chrome extensions have come out to be an amazing help for content writers. But the problem is that there are a lot of hands out there and you have got to choose the best one.
Well, worry not we have researched and listed out the best chrome extensions for content writing that I personally used and found useful.
But first of all, let’s do a small introduction and see what actually chrome extensions are.
What Are Google Chrome Extensions?
Programs called Google Chrome extensions are added to the Chrome browser to improve its functionality while using it to access the internet. These sorts of little programmes have various names depending on the browser.
The main functions of Chrome browsers typically include web browsing, bookmarking, password storage, cookies, etc.
However, you may enhance your Chrome browser experience with the aid of extensions. You can install Chrome extensions from the Google web store.
Different chrome extensions can be used for different purposes. From increasing productivity to helping in writing, they can perform a multitude of tasks.
Here we are going to mention today the 5 chrome extensions for content writing that have been used by top chrome writers. We have tried to mention such chrome extensions that will assist in different phases of content writing.
Plus some chrome extensions that I have found to be interesting and you can use them if you want.
Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Content Writers
1. Grammarly
If a friend and enemy can be combined into one, that will be Grammarly. There’s barely any writer out there who hasn’t known of it.
Grammarly assists in digital writing based on AI and natural language processing. And as the name suggests it helps with grammar but it’s not limited to that.
The tool covers from spelling to the style and tone of the text. It also helps you with fixing writing errors and offers better words to represent yourself precisely.
Grammarly is a must-have tool for content writers. With it, you can believe that your writing is not only Grammarly accurate but is clear and without any missed typos.
The tool offers:
- A better way to write
- Fix your spelling and grammar
- Clarify and tight your sentences
- Strike the right tone
- Enhance your fluency
2. Evernote Web Clipper
Evernote Web Clipper is first and foremost a note-storing tool. But what is distinct from others is that it can store a lot more than just plain text.
It helps you capture and save articles, images, crucial images, selected text and even any web page that you want to save. Once saved, Evernote saves it forever. The extension is available for free for chrome. It is also available for Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.
The tool offers:
- Save web pages
- Highlight key info
- Sync across devices
3. Speechnotes
We all have wished that we wouldn’t have to write all the content and if we could just dictate it and someone else would do the typing for us.
Well, the wish has finally come true. Speechnotes simply offers you the ability to dictate the content and through its speech recognition, it will write it for you. Speechnote’s high level of accuracy and excellent features makes it addictive.
More interesting thing is, that it is backed by Google’s Speech-to-Text engines & proprietary algorithms and that’s what makes it a professional tool. Also, you can take the benefits for free.
The tool offers:
- Surprisingly accurate speech recognition
- Ease of use
- Automatically transcribe audio, video and recordings
4. Keywords Everywhere
Now content without SEO optimisation is just a pile of text that will be forgotten on the 9th or 10th page of SERP. And to make it search engine optimized, the very first thing that matters are keywords.
Now, keyword research is surely a must-to-do task on SEO and the Keywords Everywhere Chrome Extension makes it a bit easy for you.
After installing Keywords Everywhere, whatever keyword you type on Google, it will show its statistics such as keyword usage graph over years, related keywords, SEO difficulty, volume and etc.
The tool offers:
- Keyword statistics for every search
- Reliable data
- Metrics such as usage, SEO difficulty, related keywords, volume etc.
- DA of every search result
5. Plagly
The next thing that a content writer always keeps in mind is plagiarism. And Plagly is among the best chrome extensions to check plagiarism of content.
It simply goes through the content, compares it through its database of millions of pages and shows you how much your content has plagiarism, and where and where from.
You can simply check the plagiarism while writing and wouldn’t have to go through another site to check it.
The tool offers:
- Ease of use
- Huge database
- Trustable results
Now apart from the top 5 ones that cover, the following are the ones that are interesting too and can help you with different aspects.
6. Toggl Track
Toggl Track is a time-management tool. Every freelancer out there would surely love this.
It helps you track your time so that you know how much time you spent on different tasks. The tool starts and stops with simply a click. Toggl does not have any complex or confusing work process, so you can simply click on it and keep on working.
It works quite nicely with Google Docs and could be connected to Google Drive too. Also, It syncs between platforms so that you can also keep an eye on how much time you spent on specific projects.
7. Headlinr
Headlines are among the first thing that makes a user click on your search result. Now writing catchy and convincing headlines might be a headache sometimes.
Headlinr helps you through this, all you have to give it is a keyword. It will generate thousands of catchy headlines based on that keyword and let you choose the one you like.
Now, the thing to remember is, as it has a limited database many of it won’t be precise and many would. It might not promise to give the best headline and it will surely give you a great idea. The catch is that the free version comes with only 30 headline suggestions at once.
8. Pocket
We all have been through a situation where we found a great piece of content but don’t have time or don’t want to read the content at the time and it gets lost.
Pocket offers a bookmarking tool that allows you to save web pages with a simple click. You can save articles, web pages and videos on both mobile and desktop. It can be quite helpful for content writers during content research.
What’s more, is that you can also create “shelves” and distinguish the content into specific categories.
9. OneTab
This one too comes in handy during content research.
Content research can be an intense process as you have to go through the web to find all the information you can about the topic. And that always makes us open infinite tabs on our chrome browser and get lost in them 🙁
OneTab solves the issue by simply combining all the tabs into one and forming a list of them. So you can focus on the important ones first while not losing the other pages too. And when you want to see those pages just click on them and you got what you wanted.
The process is pretty easy, this chrome extension for content writing simply works with only a click and clears out the view of your chrome’s tab bar.
The Final List: Must-Have Content Writing Chrome Extensions
The Chrome extensions mentioned above are pretty useful and used by many writers out there. We tried to cover as many aspects of content writing as we can.
Now, here’s a combined list of all the content writing chrome extensions that we talked about above to give you a quick overview.
| Chrome Extensions | Phases they help in |
| Grammarly | Writing (for grammatical errors and sentence structure) |
| Evernote | Research (to save web pages, images and articles) |
| Speechnotes | Writing (to transcribe speech into text) |
| Keyword Everywhere | Keyword Research (to find keywords with every search) |
| Plagly | Plagiarism Checking |
| Toggl Track | Time management |
| Headlinr | Writing (helps in writing catchy headlines) |
| Research (saves web pages with a click) | |
| OneTab | Research (combines all the open tabs into a list) |
Wrapping Up
What’s the wait for now? Tie up your shoes (not really) and let’s go. Level up your skill with these chrome extensions and chase the top of the pyramid to become the best writer!
Of course, these extensions won’t work by themselves, you have got to work (can’t outrun that). But this time you would have some helping hands to make you get the work done faster and better.
I believe you would have got all the information you were searching for. If not, then our comment box is wide open for you. Or you can mail us your query at [email protected]. We will love to help you out.
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