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Best alternatives to Open in Colab (2026)

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

Open in Colab: reviews, users and permissionsBest Developer Tools extensions

Open in Colab today

≈100K users3.7★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago1 permissions

Open in Colab alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Colab Themes

    Changes the appearance of Google Colab!

    ≈3K users4.4★ from 16 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years3 permissions
    • About 33× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    Colab Themes alternativesCompare side by side
  2. 2

    Open in VSCode

    Open Github and Gitlab links in VSCode

    ≈10K users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 13 months ago4 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    Open in VSCode 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 13× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    Visual Python for Colab alternativesCompare side by side
  4. 4

    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 20× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    Google Colab Keep-Alive alternativesCompare side by side
  5. 5

    Open with Visual Studio Code - Github

    Overrides Open in Visual Studio button on GitHub with Open in Visual Studio Code

    ≈5K users4.5★ from 2 ratingsNot updated for 5+ years1 permissions
    • About 20× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Updated less recently
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
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  6. 6

    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
    • A similar number of users to Open in Colab
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (9 vs 1)
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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 17× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Updated less recently
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  8. 8

    Color Tab

    A beautiful color palette with every new tab!

    ≈200K users4.3★ from 1.4K ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions
    • About 2.0× more users than Open in Colab
    • Rated 0.6 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
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  9. 9

    Open GitHub in IDE

    Open GitHub files links in your IDE

    ≈1K users4.2★ from 9 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years1 permissions
    • About 100× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Updated less recently
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  10. 10

    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 50× fewer users than Open in Colab
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
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Open in Colab alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Open in Colab?

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 Open in Colab 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 Open in Colab alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Color Tab asks for 0 permissions, against 1 for Open in Colab.

How many alternatives to Open in Colab are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Open in Colab 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.