Best alternatives to Atom Material Icons (2026)
6 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Atom Material Icons, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Atom Material Icons alternatives, compared
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Material Icons for GitHub
Material icons for the file browser of popular websites like GitHub, Azure, Bitbucket etc.
≈20K users4.9★ from 105 ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago3 permissions- About 2.2× more users than Atom Material Icons
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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File Icons for GitHub and GitLab
A simple browser tool changes file's icon on GitHub, GitLab, gitea and gogs.
≈10K users4.9★ from 52 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago7 permissions- A similar number of users to Atom Material Icons
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (7 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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Google Apps Script GitHub Assistant
Manage your gas code with github/github enterprise/bitbucket/gitlab
≈40K users4.5★ from 109 ratingsUpdated 20 months ago3 permissions- About 4.4× more users than Atom Material Icons
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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Gitako - GitHub file tree
File tree for GitHub, and more than that.
≈9K users4.9★ from 80 ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago7 permissions- A similar number of users to Atom Material Icons
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (7 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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Aviator Chrome Extension
Show Aviator MergeQueue status on GitHub
≈3K users3.8★ from 4 ratingsUpdated in the last day5 permissions- About 3.0× fewer users than Atom Material Icons
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
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SpanTree
Tree for Gitlab
≈5K users4.3★ from 26 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 1.8× fewer users than Atom Material Icons
- Rated 0.3 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 11)
- Listed under Developer Tools
Atom Material Icons alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Atom Material Icons?
By users, the most popular alternative is Google Apps Script GitHub Assistant with ≈40K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Material Icons for GitHub.
Which Atom Material Icons alternative has the best rating?
Material Icons for GitHub has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 105 ratings.
Is there a Atom Material Icons alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
SpanTree asks for 1 permissions, against 11 for Atom Material Icons.
How many alternatives to Atom Material Icons are there?
We list 6 close alternatives to Atom Material Icons on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.