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Best alternatives to Google Colab Keep-Alive (2026)

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

Google Colab Keep-Alive: reviews, users and permissionsBest Developer Tools extensions

Google Colab Keep-Alive today

≈5K users3.3★ from 6 ratings2 permissions

Google Colab Keep-Alive alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Colab Themes

    Changes the appearance of Google Colab!

    ≈3K users4.4★ from 16 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years3 permissions
    • About 1.7× fewer users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 2)
    Colab Themes alternativesCompare side by side
  2. 2

    Open in Colab

    Open a Github-hosted notebook in Google Colab

    ≈100K users3.7★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago1 permissions
    • About 20× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
    Open in Colab alternativesCompare side by side
  3. 3

    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 1.6× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 2)
    Visual Python for Colab alternativesCompare side by side
  4. 4

    Color Tab

    A beautiful color palette with every new tab!

    ≈200K users4.3★ from 1.4K ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions
    • About 40× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 2)
    Color Tab alternativesCompare side by side
  5. 5

    Live editor for CSS, Less & Sass - Magic CSS

    Live preview of CSS/Less/Sass code changes. Auto-save file, autocomplete, Less/Sass to CSS, beautify, CSS reloader, lint, ...

    ≈60K users4.6★ from 279 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years5 permissions
    • About 12× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 2)
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  6. 6

    Google Drive Markdown Preview

    Automatically renders markdown files in Google Drive preview mode

    ≈1K users4.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago5 permissions
    • About 5.0× fewer users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 2)
    Google Drive Markdown Preview alternativesCompare side by side
  7. 7

    CurlWget

    Builds a command line for 'curl/wget' tools to enable the download of data on a console only session.

    ≈10K users4.9★ from 46 ratingsUpdated 23 months ago6 permissions
    • About 2.0× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
    • Listed under Tools
    CurlWget alternativesCompare side by side
  8. 8

    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
    • A similar number of users to Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
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  9. 9

    OpenCLI

    Browser automation bridge for the OpenCLI CLI tool. Executes commands in Chrome tab leases via a local daemon.

    ≈100K users5.0★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago9 permissions
    • About 20× more users than Google Colab Keep-Alive
    • Asks for more permissions (9 vs 2)
    OpenCLI alternativesCompare side by side

Google Colab Keep-Alive alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Google Colab Keep-Alive?

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 Colab Themes.

Which Google Colab Keep-Alive alternative has the best rating?

Live editor for CSS, Less & Sass - Magic CSS has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.6 out of 5 from 279 ratings.

Is there a Google Colab Keep-Alive alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Color Tab asks for 0 permissions, against 2 for Google Colab Keep-Alive.

How many alternatives to Google Colab Keep-Alive are there?

We list 9 close alternatives to Google Colab Keep-Alive 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.