Best alternatives to Keyboard Shortcuts (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Keyboard Shortcuts, 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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Keyboard Shortcuts alternatives, compared
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome™
Custom keyboard shortcuts for tabs, windows, zoom, and quick navigation — no permission warnings.
≈5K users4.1★ from 32 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago3 permissions- About 14× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 0.4 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 0)
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Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts)
Custom keyboard shortcuts for your browser
≈100K users3.4★ from 814 ratingsUpdated 7 months ago14 permissions- A similar number of users to Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 1.1 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (14 vs 0)
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Shortcuts for Google™
Choose from 1000+ Google™ shortcuts to show up as buttons in a space-saving popup
≈100K users4.8★ from 3.2K ratingsUpdated 6 days ago9 permissions- A similar number of users to Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (9 vs 0)
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Keyboard Shortcuts to Reorder Tabs
Reorder shortcuts using ctrl-shift pgup/pgdn on Windows/Mac just like you can already do in Linux.
≈3K users3.8★ from 118 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 23× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 0.7 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Keyboard shortcuts to manage Chrome tabs
Add hotkeys to 1)close tabs to the left, 2)close tabs to the right, 3)close other tabs, 4)toggle tab pinning
≈6K users4.5★ from 34 ratingsUpdated 24 months agoNo special permissions- About 12× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Updated more recently
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Tab to Window/Popup - Keyboard Shortcut
Add a keyboard shortcut to move the current tab to a new window or popup.
≈10K users4.7★ from 125 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions- About 7.0× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 0)
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Disable YouTube Number Keyboard Shortcuts
Blocks 0-9 keys on YouTube, preventing video seek with keyboard shortcuts.
≈5K users4.3★ from 54 ratings2 permissions- About 14× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 0.2 stars lower
- Asks for more permissions (2 vs 0)
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Bookmark Shortcuts Extension
Add keyboard shortcuts for 10 of your bookmarks.
≈3K users3.2★ from 25 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years2 permissions- About 23× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 1.2 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (2 vs 0)
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Virtual Keyboard for Google Chrome™
FREE! Full Screen virtual keyboard for Google Chrome
≈30K users3.2★ from 327 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions- About 2.3× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Rated 1.3 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 0)
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Keyboard Lock
An extension to lock your keyboard. Lock it when watching Youtube with kids.
≈5K users2.4★ from 13 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions- About 14× fewer users than Keyboard Shortcuts
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 0)
Keyboard Shortcuts alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Keyboard Shortcuts?
By users, the most popular alternative is Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) with ≈100K users and a 3.4-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome™.
Which Keyboard Shortcuts alternative has the best rating?
Shortcuts for Google™ has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings.
How many alternatives to Keyboard Shortcuts are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Keyboard Shortcuts on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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