The Best 5 Chrome Extensions for Google Meet in 2024

Google Meet serves its purpose well as a conferencing tool, but there are areas where it could use a boost to make virtual meetings more enjoyable. Plus, some of the really handy features like recording and transcription are only available with paid plans.

Fortunately, there's a whole bunch of Chrome Extensions you can find on the Web Store that can fill in these gaps and level up your Google Meet experience.

In this article, I'll list 5 best Google Meet Chrome Extensions that can improve your Google Meet meetings.

5 Best Google Meet Chrome Extensions

As I use Google Meet very often, especially combined with Google Calendar, I can easily say that I'm a Google Meet power user.

That's why I wanted to empower calls even more by trying different Chrome Extensions for Google Meet. Based on my experience and personal preferences, I listed, in my opinion, the best 5 Google Meet Chrome Extensions to use in 2024.

#1 Meeting Timer - for Google Meet

Meeting Timer is simple, yet powerful Chrome Extension. What differentiates it from other Google Meet call timers is that it automatically integrates with the Google Calendar account. So the timer counts down the real calendar events, not just the time spent on the call. And that opens a whole bunch of productivity and time management options.

Different states of the Google Meet Timer - Meeting Timer.

Meeting Timer - for Google Meet will display a Google Meet Timer, which matches an event from a connected Google Calendar. It shows in a nice, visual form, how much time has left, a halftime or will warn you when a meeting is about to end. It also makes it even more stand out when your meeting enters the overtime zone.

Another cool and useful feature is that whenever a next meeting or overlapping meeting is detected, you will be notified upfront with a nice animation effect. So you can easily jump into the next call with a single click or just discard it. I'm sure you'll never acidentally skip any meeting again.

Reminder about overlapping meetings - Meeting Timer.

When Google Calendar is not connected, or calendar event couldn't be matched, Meeting Timer will enter the Manual Mode. In this mode the Google Meet Timer counts time up, unless the duration is set. Then all the advantages of having progress bar and being informed about specific meeting points are back. In Settings, you can input the default time that will be used for counting time down.

Meeting Timer - Manual Mode (when calendar is not connected).

Meeting Timer - for Google Meet uses its integration with Google Calendar to present many useful information. This is a very handy way to check what are the upcoming meetings or to just accept or decline the event. You can also easily copy a link to the meeting or share a call Timer to other tabs. The latter is super useful to show Timer to all meeting's participants so it's easier to control the time for everyone.

Meeting Timer - Integration with Google Calendar. A quick access to upcoming meetings.

Check out Meeting Timer in Chrome Web Store

Price

• Free

Key features

• Automatic Google Meet Timer - integration with Google Calendar
• Manual Google Meet Timer - when Google Calendar is not connected or calendar event is not matched
• Joining upcoming Google Meet calls with a single click
• Drag & Drop Timer
• Share call Timer on other tabs
• Accept or decline Google Calendar events
• Favicon alerts
• Upcoming meeting alerts inside a Timer

#2 Google Meet Enhancement Suite

Google Meet Enhancement Suite is a pretty big pack of additional features you can extend the Google Meet with. The extension is formed in a toggle-to-enable form so you can easily see all the features and decide which one of them you’d like to use. In most cases those as kind of accessibility improvements to the Google Meet layout. So you can for example auto join meetings, use a keyboard shortcut to toggle your microphone or automatically mu your mic when you join the meeting.

The biggest flaw of Google Meet Enhancement Suite Chrome Extenion is the fact that most of the useful features are paid and you can see that by the list of paid options. It’s twice as big as the free ones. But the price is pretty affordable and you can get the automatically enabled recording of the Google Meet meetings, muting all participants or do not disturb mode. Worth trying it on your own and deciding which of those options will make your daily life easier.

Price

• 7-day free trial (Pro)
• Starting from $2.60/mo (Pro)

Key features

• Push to talk
• Auto join meetings
• Quick leave meetings
• Auto captions
• Auto video off
• Recording videos (Pro)
• Auto unmute (Pro)
• Auto Admit New Entrants (Pro)

#3 Google Meet Breakout Rooms

Google Meet Breakout Rooms is a very powerful Chrome Extension for creating and managing breakout rooms. Useful for teachers and online tutors which is actually the main use case that is presented in the description. The UI is pretty complex and a bit overwhelmed with instructions, but after a short time, it’s easy to handle the flow.

The general idea is that the host creates breakout rooms, adds participants and randomly assigns them to the rooms. Then there are generated separated links to Google Meet calls which can be easily copied and pasted to the main meeting call’s chat. Then host can manage each room separately using a single UI window.

Price

• Free

Key features

• Creating breakout rooms and generating group links
• Auto-opening rooms in separated windows with
• Managing each room separately (video / microphone)
• Only the host of the meeting has to instal the Chrome Extension

#4 Auto Admit for Google Meet

Auto Admit for Google Meet is a simple yet very useful feature. One of the most common issues you face during the calls when you use Google Meet for your personal usage is to accept every new participant. You have to validate, check, stop the conversation and click on the Admit Button every single time. It could be very inconvenient. Especially when you have many people joining at the same time. Auto Admit for Google Meet does it for you, automatically.

The Chrome Extension is also useful when you’ve got people joining your meeting who are not part of your organization. Not recommend though if you care about safety.

Price

• Free

Key features

• Auto add attenders
• Avoid annoyance and helps you focus on the actual meeting

#5 Meet Plus for Google Meet

Meet Plus for Google Meet is a big suite of features for Google Meet. You can use it to ass quizzes, crate pools, add chats, get simple stats or even create breakout rooms. Interesting is also the reward / ranking / points system. So it makes calls even more collaborative. Just like Google Meet Enhancement Suite, this Chrome Extension focuses more on the Pro users, offering them lots of additional features.

In Pro features list you can find useful things like private screen sharing, file sharing or creating tasks for the attendees. There’s a 3-day trial to try all those functions.

Price

• 3-day free trial (Pro)
• Starting from $4.99/mo (Pro)

Key features

• Stopwatch
• Trivia Quiz
• File sharing (Pro)
• Breakout rooms (Pro)
• Customized Quiz (Pro)
• Real-time Whiteboard Sharing (Pro)