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Best alternatives to Colab Themes (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Colab Themes, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Colab Themes: reviews, users and permissionsBest Developer Tools extensions

Colab Themes today

≈3K users4.4★ from 16 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years3 permissions

Colab Themes alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Open in Colab

    Open a Github-hosted notebook in Google Colab

    ≈100K users3.7★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago1 permissions
    • About 33× more users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
    Open in Colab alternativesCompare side by side
  2. 2

    Colab Spellcheck

    Check your spelling in Google Colab!

    439 users1.0★ from 1 ratingUpdated 7 months ago2 permissions
    • About 6.8× fewer users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
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  3. 3

    Google Colab Keep-Alive

    Automatically clicks the screen every 60 seconds to keep Google Colab sessions alive.

    ≈5K users3.3★ from 6 ratings2 permissions
    • About 1.7× more users than Colab Themes
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
    Google Colab Keep-Alive alternativesCompare side by side
  4. 4

    Visual Python for Colab

    GUI-based Python code generator for Google Colab as an extension

    ≈8K users4.9★ from 10 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions
    • About 2.7× more users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    Visual Python for Colab alternativesCompare side by side
  5. 5

    Color Tab

    A beautiful color palette with every new tab!

    ≈200K users4.3★ from 1.4K ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions
    • About 67× more users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 3)
    Color Tab alternativesCompare side by side
  6. 6

    Open in Colab for GitHub & Gist

    Cross-browser extension that injects an 'Open in Colab' button into Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) file headers on GitHub Repo and Gists

    497 users4.2★ from 5 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago4 permissions
    • About 6.0× fewer users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
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  7. 7

    VS Code Web

    An extension to open a GitHub repo in VS Code Web

    ≈6K users4.5★ from 2 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years1 permissions
    • About 2.0× more users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
    VS Code Web alternativesCompare side by side
  8. 8

    HTML Copy

    Copy or Export to file the HTML of a page with options to ignore certain elements.

    ≈2K users4.0★ from 4 ratings3 permissions
    • About 1.5× fewer users than Colab Themes
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  9. 9

    GASE — The modern IDE for Google Apps Script.

    GASE — The modern IDE for Google Apps Script

    ≈6K users4.3★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 3 weeks ago5 permissions
    • About 2.0× more users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 3)
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  10. 10

    Leetcode Custom Themes

    Allows you to change Leetcode Code Editor Themes

    782 users4.7★ from 13 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years4 permissions
    • About 3.8× fewer users than Colab Themes
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Colab Themes alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Colab Themes?

By users, the most popular alternative is Color Tab with ≈200K users and a 4.3-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Open in Colab.

Which Colab Themes alternative has the best rating?

Color Tab has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.3 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings.

Is there a Colab Themes alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Color Tab asks for 0 permissions, against 3 for Colab Themes.

How many alternatives to Colab Themes are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Colab Themes 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.