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Best alternatives to Hide Scrollbar (2026)

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

Hide Scrollbar today

≈10K users4.4★ from 99 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions

Hide Scrollbar alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Hide That!

    This extension can hide or remove selected elements on a page. Useful for removing invasive adverts, banners and overlays.

    ≈10K users4.4★ from 55 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Hide Scrollbar
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  2. 2

    Hide shorts for Youtube™

    Hides shorts from YouTube™ from home page, subscriptions and search results.

    ≈6K users4.7★ from 23 ratingsUpdated 7 months ago1 permissions
    • About 1.7× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Rated 0.3 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  3. 3

    Hide Shorts

    A Chrome extension that filters out YouTube Shorts content to provide a distraction-free browsing experience.

    ≈1K users4.3★ from 19 ratings1 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Listed under Tools
  4. 4

    Thorium Scrollbars

    Thorium Overlay Scrollbars Theme

    ≈1K users4.7★ from 3 ratingsNo special permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
  5. 5

    Hide Elements

    Hide Elements Chrome Extension lets you hide, disable, or restore HTML elements on any webpage and keeps your changes saved.

    ≈1K users4.8★ from 5 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago5 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
  6. 6

    Image Hider

    Chrome extension to hide all images by default and show images again with click of icon.

    ≈1K users4.3★ from 32 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago6 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 1)
    • Listed under Accessibility
  7. 7

    Hide Images|Videos

    Hides images/videos on websites. One-click to turn off the image display,You can set a whitelist for a website.

    ≈4K users3.4★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago2 permissions
    • About 2.5× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Rated 1.0 stars lower
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
  8. 8

    Hide Trending Search Suggestions

    Hides the trending searches suggestions on the search box on google.com

    ≈2K users3.0★ from 2 ratingsUpdated 23 months agoNo special permissions
    • About 5.0× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  9. 9

    Hide View Count

    This extension hides the number of impressions on Twitter and prevents the creation of an approval desire monster.

    ≈1K users5.0★ from 32 ratingsUpdated 11 months agoNo special permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Hide Scrollbar
    • Rated 0.6 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
    • Listed under Social Networking
  10. 10

    UnSponsored

    Hide sponsored content on web pages.

    ≈10K users4.3★ from 39 ratingsUpdated 20 months ago2 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Hide Scrollbar
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools

Hide Scrollbar alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Hide Scrollbar?

By users, the most popular alternative is Hide That! with ≈10K users and a 4.4-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Hide That!.

Which Hide Scrollbar alternative has the best rating?

Hide That! has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.4 out of 5 from 55 ratings.

Is there a Hide Scrollbar alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Thorium Scrollbars asks for 0 permissions, against 1 for Hide Scrollbar.

How many alternatives to Hide Scrollbar are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Hide Scrollbar 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.