10 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Students

There are 10 chrome extensions for academics and other uses that you might not know exist. They will help you out.

Scribe

This is a screen recording extension. It is a game-changer for teaching & collaborating, especially remotely. It records your screen and generates an automatic step-by-step of everything you did with screenshots.

Swift Read

It is a speed reading extension. It will make you a rabbit from turtle in reading. It works on any web page. It shows you 1 word at a time at a speed you choose.

Toby  

Tab manager. So that you can close those 3,000 tabs (you’re welcome). Way better than bookmarks. The organization is superb . Organize tabs into collections, save workspaces, and search.

Speechify

This extension is from text-to-speech. Makes writing & editing easier.it is perfect for those reading marathons (right before an exam, especially ). It is a natural-sounding speech (huge plus). 

Forest

It is a focus timer. The more you focus, the more your trees grow.there are bunch of stats to show you how you’ve been doing, if that’s your thing! Helps curb procrastination.

Wordtune

It is an AI-powered writing assistant. If you use Grammarly, you'll like this one! Helpful for writing emails (especially when you’re struggling with what to say). 

Smallpdf

It compresses PDFs. Because somehow, the PDF is almost always too big to send via email. It compresses PDFs without any huge, noticeable quality reductions. 

Mendely  

It acts as a reference manager. It downloads the PDF automatically (when available). It is used for saving, reading, and citing articles. I use this more often than the desktop app, tbh.

Honey

Honey is one of the more popular and highly reviewed Chrome extensions around, and it's easy to see why. It's a fast and simple way to find coupons while shopping online, either through an icon next to the

The internet has made shopping more convenient in a lot of ways, but it can still be difficult to know if you're getting the best price on something or not. Honey does the work for you and is a helpful tool for saving money.

Dalton color blindness extension

Some people don't have perfect color vision, but the world isn't built for those people. When objects or images on a website aren't easily distinguishable for the color deficient, the Dalton Chrome extension is a neat solution.