ElasticSearch Toolbox

Screenshots as the store published them when we checked on 31 August 2026.

Why we score it 60

• A Chrome App rather than an extension, on a platform Chrome has withdrawn.
• Has not been updated in over 10 years.

What it can access

On the sites it runs on, ElasticSearch Toolbox can reach a limited set of sites. Its permission set rates 4 out of 100 for reach — a measure of what it could do, not of anything it has done.

Store rating 2.9 out of 5 from 38 people.

What this was, and why it stopped

ElasticSearch Toolbox was a packaged Chrome App: it shipped its own files and ran in a window of its own, rather than as part of a web page. Chrome Apps were a separate platform from extensions, and Google withdrew it — support ended on Windows, macOS and Linux in 2022 and on ChromeOS in early 2025.

What it ran: 1 background script of its own and a declaration that it worked offline.

Unlike a hosted app there is no website underneath this one to fall back on. The app was the whole program, so when the platform went, nothing was left behind it.

It declared it needed Chrome 30 or newer. Its listing was still in the store when we checked on 31 August 2026. Being listed and being usable are different things, and the store does not distinguish them.

What to use instead

• Keyboard History Recorder Needs similar access, updated 6 weeks ago, 10k+ users, on Manifest V3.
• Clockwork Needs similar access, 40k+ users, on Manifest V3.
• Blackfire Profiler Needs similar access, updated within the last month, 10k+ users, on Manifest V3.
• JSON Formatter Same category, updated 13 weeks ago, 40k+ users, on Manifest V3.
• Font Finder Same category, 400k+ users, on Manifest V3.