What is still on Manifest V2, and why it is not extensions

2418 Chrome Apps · by Alex · checked 3 September 2026

5,795

Listings at manifest_version 2

3,377

Themes (version 2 is normal)

2,397

Chrome Apps

0

Manifest V2 extensions

170/291

App addresses still answering

What manifest_version 2 turns out to mean

The number is the same for all three, and that is the whole trap. We read every manifest we hold at version 2 and sorted it by what the listing actually is:

• 3,377 themes. A theme has no background page, no permissions and no service worker, so Manifest V3 never applied to it. Version 2 on a theme is not neglect and never becomes neglect.
• 1,280 hosted Chrome Apps. A launcher that opened a website in a tab. It ran no code in your browser and could reach no more of your browsing than a bookmark to the same address.
• 1,117 packaged Chrome Apps. These shipped their own files and ran in a window of their own. Some asked for capabilities no extension ever had, such as raw network sockets.
• 0 Manifest V2 extensions. None. Chrome stopped loading them and the store stopped listing them, so a crawl of the live store cannot find any, and ours does not.
• 21 we could not read. Their stored manifest will not parse, so we do not class them either way rather than guessing.

Chrome Apps stopped working on Windows, macOS and Linux in 2022, and on ChromeOS in early 2025. Their store pages outlived them, which is why a listing that has not worked for years can still be found and still be installed.

What we had wrong here

This page previously said we had re-tested 290 Manifest V2 extensions and found every one still listed, and it named OneDrive, OneNote Online and feedly among them. The re-test was real and the listings are still there. The label was wrong: those three are hosted Chrome Apps, and so was almost everything else in that sample. We were measuring a version number and reporting it as a platform.

One removal we recorded does stand, because it was an extension: uBlock Origin was live in our crawl on 30 August 2026 and returned an empty listing three days later.

Where the hosted apps pointed, and what is there now

A hosted app was only ever a launcher, so the useful question is not whether it works — none of them do — but whether the site behind it survived. We requested every one of these addresses ourselves. Of 291 checked, 170 still answer, 49 now land on a different site, 39 return an error and 33 do not reply at all.

A redirect is reported as a redirect and nothing more: the new destination may be the same company under a newer name, or somebody who picked up the domain afterwards, and we do not guess which.

What this list is

The Chrome Apps below, largest first, out of 2418 non-theme listings at version 2 that we have crawled so far. The store holds roughly 355,000 items and we are still working through it, so this is what we have seen rather than everything there is. Each page says what that app was and, for a hosted app, the address it opened — which is usually the thing a reader actually wants, because the site is a separate matter from the launcher.

The largest Chrome Apps still listed

Extension	Last updated	Users	Score
PDF Editor for Docs:Edit, Fill, Sign, Print PDFfiller, Inc.	16 August 2019	600k	60
OneDrive Microsoft Corporation	13 April 2016	600k	60
OneNote Online Microsoft Corporation	4 October 2016	500k	60
Readium IDPF	18 October 2018	300k	60
VoiceNote II - Speech to text voicenote.in	2 February 2016	300k	60
Voice Recorder 123apps.com	25 November 2014	300k	60
feedly Feedly	21 August 2016	200k	60
Kurzweil 3000 Kurzweil Education Inc.	16 September 2019	200k	60
Video Converter 123apps.com	10 February 2020	200k	60
BeFunky Photo Editor befunky-chrome-developers	24 August 2022	100k	60
Telegram Igor Zhukov	8 March 2019	100k	60
Cog - System Info Viewer François Beaufort	19 June 2018	100k	60
Remind Remind	6 January 2016	100k	60
Smart Card Connector google.com	3 December 2025	100k	35
TwistedWave TwistedWave Software Ltd.	7 January 2013	100k	60
Lego Builder publish your design	27 June 2013	100k	60
3D Solar System Web Esfandiar Maghsoudi	6 December 2013	100k	60
BIODIGITAL HUMAN biodigital-chrome-apps	14 October 2020	100k	60
MindMup 2.0 - Free Mind Map web site chrome-webstore-publishers	10 July 2018	100k	60
WGT Golf Game WGT	28 May 2015	100k	60
Miro: Whiteboard for Collaboration Miro	17 April 2019	100k	60
Audio Cutter 123apps.com	25 November 2014	100k	60
DEPRECATED Secure Shell App Google Secure Shell Developers	2 September 2023	100k	60
Bible Life.Church	9 November 2015	80k	60
PaintZ Zachary Yaro	26 December 2022	80k	60
Transcreen shenzhenfeitu	18 January 2022	80k	70
Copy Folder ericyd	1 September 2019	80k	60
Tv Online Redkky	2 January 2015	80k	60
Causality Games Free Games	18 March 2015	70k	60
Arcane Legends Spacetime Studios	4 September 2018	70k	60
My Study Life My Study Life, Ltd.	30 November 2016	70k	60
Soundtrap for Education Soundtrap AB	24 November 2017	60k	60
Solitaire Games Solitaire	9 December 2013	60k	60
GIMP on rollApp rollApp, Inc.	28 March 2018	60k	60
TimeMaps: World History Atlas TimeMaps Ltd	8 July 2017	60k	60
Color Piano! MUDCUBE	14 October 2014	60k	60
KML, KMZ Viewer with Drive nsspot2	7 October 2017	60k	60
YOUZEEK Free Music YOUZEEK	17 December 2014	50k	60
Word Search BattleLine Games	14 March 2015	50k	60
Chain Reaction Yvo Schaap	16 July 2012	50k	60
Audio Joiner 123apps.com	25 November 2014	50k	60
Asana asana-chrome-publishers	30 January 2017	50k	60
Wixie	28 May 2020	50k	60
Moqups · Mockups, Wireframes & Prototyping Moqups	22 October 2019	50k	60
Plugins singleclickapps	7 December 2021	50k	60
Symbaloo Symbaloo.com	27 March 2020	40k	60
Kingdom Rush Frontiers Ironhide Game Studio	26 December 2013	40k	60
CAD, DXF, DWG Viewer for Drive softgateon	1 August 2019	40k	60
VXG Media Player videoexpertsgroup	14 December 2021	40k	60
Image to PDF Converter - Smallpdf.com Immaterial LLC	12 June 2014	40k	60
Flat - Music scores and guitar tabs editor Tutteo Limited - Flat	8 February 2019	40k	60
MIT App Inventor aichrome	17 July 2014	40k	60
Bloc de Notas Online Hekoru Apps	17 November 2015	30k	60
Resume (CV) Maker KN	2 July 2013	30k	60
IPEVO Whiteboard IPEVO Inc.	5 September 2019	30k	70
OpenOffice Writer on rollApp rollApp, Inc.	28 March 2018	20k	60
PhotoMania PhotoMania	19 November 2015	20k	60
Word Search Puzzle GoodPublish.com	30 December 2013	20k	60
Readlang readlang	22 October 2015	20k	60
Audiense Audiense Ltd	17 October 2016	20k	60
Cash Organizer Inesoft	6 October 2018	20k	60
Social Messenger, Social News Smart Apps	28 April 2019	20k	60
Football Champions Sublinet Browsergames	14 April 2015	20k	60
Free Rider 3 KANO/APPS	2 May 2018	20k	60
Text to Speech App softgateon	8 November 2018	20k	60
AirMech Carbon Games	2 September 2015	20k	60
Plypp Piano Glatek	22 June 2026	20k	35
Online Radio Pavel Nguyen	29 November 2013	20k	60
File System for OneDrive mvheath	30 July 2020	20k	60
GPemu mjbauer95	5 February 2024	20k	60
KingsRoad Rumble	10 June 2013	20k	60
Comic Webcam Creative Systems	17 July 2013	20k	60
Conjugaison Vatefaireconjuguer Gymglish	4 July 2013	20k	60
CrOSPerf - Chrome OS Performance Daru	6 December 2022	20k	60
Pop Art Studio Online Fotoview	30 November 2012	20k	60
Video Downloader Cute	4 April 2018	20k	60
Fotor's Collage Maker Fotor	24 June 2016	20k	60
ProcessOn -Diagram Online ProcessOn Team	30 January 2021	20k	60
Cloud HWP Viewer AppFactory	21 March 2018	10k	60
Smartsheet Chrome App Smartsheet, Inc.	7 January 2015	10k	60
MockFlow A Produle Systems (P) Ltd.	2 June 2017	10k	60
Synology Note Station Synology.com	6 December 2017	10k	70
Light david.flinner	30 December 2013	10k	60
Little Alchemy light Recloak	6 December 2012	10k	60
Business Card Maker Ionut Colceriu	22 February 2015	10k	60
Common Core Math 1-6 by Sokikom Sokikom	14 August 2013	10k	60
JotForm Jotform Team	9 April 2019	10k	60
Pluto TV: TV for the Internet Pluto TV	10 February 2016	10k	60
Notty Notes BeiYuu	22 June 2014	10k	60
Webcam AppInternet	7 October 2016	10k	60
UnRAR and RAR Viewer goody98754	24 January 2020	10k	60
Editey floreysoft	11 August 2018	10k	60
EPUB Reader chromebeatadmin	10 October 2014	10k	60
Free Texas Holdem Poker Solitaire	27 April 2015	10k	60
Hot Shot Sniper FunHost.Net	23 November 2012	10k	60
Podio [email protected]	4 March 2015	10k	60
HTML Editey floreysoft	12 November 2013	10k	60
Learn Elementary Sight Words acezsoft	31 October 2017	10k	60
Googulator Justin Loutsenhizer	2 May 2016	10k	60
gLinks rafaMontoya	25 April 2023	10k	60
Cube Time & Expense Tracking bitrzr	8 October 2014	10k	60
Cloud ePub Reader with Drive Cloud	23 June 2017	10k	60
Rising Cities Bigpoint GmbH	26 May 2017	10k	60
Haiku Deck Haiku Deck, Inc.	27 May 2016	10k	60
Drive Migrator Romain Vialard	17 August 2017	10k	60
Word to PDF - Smallpdf.com Immaterial LLC	12 March 2015	10k	60
Camera Effects & Filters www.ptheg.com	13 January 2016	10k	60
Foto Rulez	17 June 2013	10k	60
Flappy Bird Multiplayer Jumbo Games - Jake Lyons	11 October 2014	10k	60
Word Search - Free Puzzles LR Studios	30 March 2019	10k	60
Sky+ BSkyB	30 May 2013	10k	60
Zpl Printer Simon Binkert	4 November 2016	10k	60
Scraper DataMiner.io	22 May 2018	10k	60
DellDisco Joe Halliwell	2 September 2015	9k	60
Document Viewer for Drive nsspot2	23 August 2016	9k	60
Manyland Philipp Lenssen	27 June 2018	9k	60
TU-95 - Pilot the Plane! FunHost.Net	15 October 2018	9k	60
Drive Files to Dropbox™ nsspot2	11 April 2019	9k	60
OpenOffice Calc on rollApp rollApp, Inc.	28 March 2018	9k	60
3D Anatomy Learning AnatomyLearning	25 October 2014	9k	60

Showing the 120 largest by user count. 2298 more are in our data but do not yet have a page of their own; a page is only built once we have something specific to say about it.