Chrome Extension Examples That Make Money, With Figures
An example is only useful if it comes with a number and the class of evidence behind it. We index 35 plugins and extensions built on someone else's…
An example is only useful if it comes with a number and the class of evidence behind it. We index 35 plugins and extensions built on someone else's platform; 12 disclose a clean monthly figure, median $23K/mo, range $300/mo to $100K/mo.
Everything below names the business, quotes the figure as disclosed, and says whether anyone checked it.
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Which Chrome extensions actually make money?
The ones worth studying are those where someone can tell you what the revenue is and how it was established. Of our 35, only 12 disclose a clean monthly number.
Most "chrome extension examples" lists are name-drops: an extension has millions of users, full stop, because user counts are public and revenue is not. We take the opposite bet — a $9K/mo figure with a founder attached teaches more than a 10-million-install badge with no monetisation at all.
One thing to hold before the list: this index over-represents businesses that succeeded and then chose to talk about it — nobody records a walkthrough of the extension that made $40 and got delisted. Use the $23K/mo median to judge someone else's claim, not to forecast your year one.
The examples, with the number attached
Each disclosing business with its figure, evidence class, and the one thing worth copying. Note how few carry hard proof.
| Business | Disclosed figure | Evidence class | The copyable part |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magai | ~$100K/mo (over $1M cumulative) | Creator-relayed | A non-technical founder aggregating models others built |
| AI-Built Single-Page Read-Later App | $60K/mo for the benchmark app | Creator-relayed | One screen, one job — the builder's own numbers are unverified |
| Website Landlord | $35K/mo personally · $104K/mo company-wide | Founder-reported | Rent the asset instead of selling the build |
| Storemapper | $25K/mo | Creator-relayed | $19/$29/$59 tiers by location count, plus resale rights |
| SuperLemon | $25K/mo | Creator-relayed | Free plan plus $9.99/mo, 15,000+ Shopify stores |
| Data Fetcher | $23K/mo · 600 customers · 85% margin | Founder-reported | Solve one integration properly and charge for it |
| Launch Fast | ~$21.8K/mo at 90 days | Third-party verified | Rev-share on borrowed distribution |
| Bulk Mockup | $12K–$13K/mo consistently | Founder-reported | Sell into an existing tool's user base |
| Stoppr | $12,000/mo · 60,000 downloads in 5 months | Founder-reported | A screen-for-screen clone, relocated to a new market |
| Sync2Sheets | $9K/mo · 450+ customers · ~90% margin | Founder-reported | Four years of compounding on ~5K visitors/mo |
Data Fetcher is the cleanest model here: Andy Cloke, solo in London, $23K/mo from 600 paying customers at an 85% margin. Exactly the group median, reached by one person selling one integration — the most realistic target here.
Sync2Sheets shows the timeline nobody advertises. Leandro in Buenos Aires reports $9K/mo, 450+ paying customers, 70K+ users and roughly $120K lifetime revenue over 4 years, on ~5K visitors a month. Margin and patience, not traffic. Bulk Mockup is the only entry where a dashboard appeared on camera — Vikash in India showing $12K–$13K/mo in Gumroad — still founder-reported, because a dashboard on a stream is the founder showing you their own screen.
Platform economics matter more here than in most categories. Extend an app-store product rather than a browser and the cut is published: Apple's Small Business Program and Google Play's service fee schedule set the tiers. Stoppr's 35% profit margin at $12,000/mo lives downstream of that.
How much is each of these numbers actually worth?
Across the 35 businesses the evidence splits 4 third-party verified, 23 founder-reported, 7 creator-relayed, 1 unproven — 77% verified or founder-reported, unusually strong compared with the index overall.
| Evidence class | Count in this group | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Third-party verified | 4 | Independently checked against a record. Launch Fast's ~$21.8K/mo at 90 days is this class. |
| Founder-reported | 23 | The operator states a figure about their own business. Data Fetcher's $23K/mo sits here. |
| Creator-relayed | 7 | Someone else reports a number about a business they do not run. Highest drift. |
| Unproven | 1 | A claim with no support offered at all. |
This is the argument the whole site rests on: a founder-reported figure and a third-party verified figure are not the same claim, and quoting them with the same confidence is the commonest failure in business-example writing.
Storemapper makes it concrete. The $25K/mo comes from a podcast host saying "I think in his video he says he's making $25,000 a month" — and the same host guesses the exit at $200K–$300K before admitting he does not know. Creator-relayed, twice over. Compare the index: 406 businesses, 106 with a clean monthly figure, median $27K/mo, split 57 verified / 184 founder-reported / 121 creator-relayed / 44 unproven. Rules on how we grade the evidence.
What the examples have in common — and where that breaks
The pattern: 18 of the 35 businesses here are one-person operations, and the durable ones attach to a host platform that already has paying users — Shopify for SuperLemon, Photoshop for Bulk Mockup, Notion and Google Sheets for Sync2Sheets, Amazon for Launch Fast. You are not acquiring users; you are intercepting them.
Where it breaks is at the top. The $100K/mo ceiling belongs to Magai, creator-relayed and not really a plugin business — a non-technical founder aggregating AI models into a subscription. And AI-Built Single-Page Read-Later App reports $60K/mo for the benchmark app while stating the builder's own numbers are unverified.
The big number in a build video usually belongs to the thing being copied, not the person copying it. At the median, businesses look like Data Fetcher: one person, one integration, hundreds of customers, high margin, years of work.
The examples nobody lists
Two entries here are documented failures, against 38 across the index — an examples article showing only winners is a sampling error wearing a suit.
- ·Cleo (AI Content Assistant) claimed $60K MRR in 53 days with zero proof, from a team whose earlier product Mentions did $20K MRR in month one. The tell is structural: the video making the claim is one link in their launch funnel. Their own line — "You cannot overspend time, energy, or money on distribution" — beats the number.
- ·NaturalWrite reports $100K in 3 months, ~$33K/mo average, from validating a keyword TikTok had already proven, shipping in 2 weeks, and posting one copycat-of-a-hit video a day from one account. The traffic strategy is the product; when the platform's taste moves, so does the business.
How to use this without fooling yourself
- 1.Grade the example that convinced you to read this. Only 4 of 35 here are third-party verified. If yours is creator-relayed, treat it like the Storemapper exit guess — a range someone admitted inventing.
- 2.Model against $23K/mo, not $100K/mo. Data Fetcher hits that median with 600 customers at 85% margin. Write down how many customers your price needs, then check the host platform's audience.
- 3.Price against the platform's cut before you build. Read What Is a Chrome Extension? Definition, Anatomy, and Real Revenue, then How to Make a Chrome Extension That Can Make Money. Stoppr keeps 35% at $12,000/mo — know your equivalent first.
- 4.Write the one-pager, then pick three comparables. Structure from the SBA's guide to planning a business; comparables from all indexed ideas and the Build & Ship hub, reading team size and evidence class before revenue.
Frequently asked questions
What are Chrome extensions examples?
The useful examples are ones with a disclosed figure. Of our 35 plugins and extensions, 12 disclose a clean monthly number, median $23K/mo, range $300/mo to $100K/mo. Named cases: Data Fetcher at $23K/mo, Sync2Sheets at $9K/mo, Bulk Mockup at $12K–$13K/mo, all founder-reported.
What are some popular Chrome extensions?
We index by revenue evidence, not install count, so we cannot rank popularity. The closest proxy is SuperLemon, whose page claims it is trusted by more than 15,000 Shopify and Shopify Plus stores, reported at $25K/mo on a free plan plus $9.99/mo. Creator-relayed, not verified.
How do I write a Chrome extension?
We index outcomes rather than teach syntax, and the outcomes suggest the build is the small part. 18 of the 35 businesses here are solo, and Sync2Sheets took roughly 4 years to reach $9K/mo and ~$120K lifetime revenue on 5K visitors a month. Distribution, not code, is the constraint.
How reliable are these chrome extension examples figures?
Better than most categories we index, and still mixed: 4 third-party verified, 23 founder-reported, 7 creator-relayed, 1 unproven — 77% verified or founder-reported. Compare the whole index at 57 verified out of 406. Storemapper's $25K/mo is a podcast host recalling a video — the class to discount hardest.
How many of the 35 indexed businesses actually disclose a monthly number?
12 of 35. The remaining 23 are indexed on evidence that never included a clean monthly figure. The full index holds the same pattern: 106 of 406 businesses disclose a clean monthly number, median $27K/mo, across 22 countries, with 38 documented failures.