The Best Chrome Extensions for Cooking (2026)

Your browser is where you find almost every recipe you cook, so a few good extensions can make the whole process faster and less annoying. Here are the ones worth installing, starting with the one that fixes the biggest problem: cluttered recipe pages.

1. Gratly: clean recipes and a real cook mode

Gratly turns any recipe site into a clean, ad-free recipe in one click. No 2,000 word intro, no popups, just the ingredients and steps. It also gives you a cook mode that keeps your screen on while you cook, timers pulled straight from the steps, serving scaling, and a place to save recipes into your own clean cookbook. It works on thousands of recipe sites and is free to start. If you only install one thing on this list, make it this one.

2. A good ad blocker

An ad blocker cleans up ads across the whole web, including recipe sites. It will not remove the long intro or organize the recipe for you, but paired with a recipe extractor it makes browsing a lot calmer.

3. A unit converter

If you cook from recipes written in metric when you think in cups, or the other way around, a quick unit-converter extension saves you from doing math mid-recipe. (Gratly also converts between ounces and grams inside the recipe view.)

4. A shopping-list or notes tool

A lightweight list extension lets you collect ingredients as you browse. If you use Gratly's paid plans, it can build the shopping list from your saved recipes and group it by category, which is faster than a generic list.

5. A read-it-later tool

For recipes you want to save for someday, a save-for-later extension keeps them out of your 50 open tabs. Saving a clean recipe in Gratly does this too, and keeps the recipe usable instead of a link you have to reopen.

How to choose

Think about where your time actually goes. For most people it is fighting cluttered recipe pages and hunting for the ingredients, which is exactly what a recipe extractor fixes. Start there, then add a unit converter or a list tool if you need them.

FAQ

Are these extensions free? Gratly and most ad blockers and converters have free versions. Some tools charge for advanced features.

Will they slow down my browser? Well-built extensions are lightweight. Install the few you will actually use rather than a dozen you will not.

Start with the essentials

Add Gratly to Chrome for free and get clean recipes, timers, and a real cook mode in one click. See also: how to remove ads from recipe websites.