It offers a free plan at a slightly reduced speed and in limited regions. I would say instead of relying on dubious Proxy extensions on Chrome, installing a proper VPN is the best way to stop your data leakage.
Apart from that, Proton VPN worked perfectly fine in our testing. You can use this app on your Chromebook for reading eBooks in tablet or tent mode. But that is not all, despite being completely free, the app does not show any ads while reading books or documents.
Simply put, if you are a voracious reader and want to make your Chromebook a Kindle alternative then ReadEra is the stepping stone you were looking for. Extensions are also equally popular in the Chrome ecosystem. So, in this article, I am going to share some of the best Chrome OS extensions that can enhance your experience even better. Text In case you are wondering about the lack of a Text editor like Notepad on Windows on Chrome OS , well Google has recently developed an extension for that.
As the name suggests, Text is a simple text editor where you can write anything you want. The extension for Text files is also TXT which is the same as Notepad so all your Text files can be used on other systems as well. Surprisingly, Google has baked in dark mode too on this text editor. So, just install Text on your Chromebook and give it a go.
Check Out Text Nimbus Screenshot Screenshot feature has almost become a necessity on every system — be it a smartphone or a desktop computer. While Chrome OS does have native support for screenshots , you can get a third-party extension if you are looking for versatile features. Nimbus is a pretty solid app and offers plenty of options from partial to window screenshots.
You can further crop and annotate the images as well. Apart from that, if you want an extension solely for annotation purposes then Awesome Screenshot extensions is another great choice.
It offers you to create boxes, blur certain parts of the image, highlight sections, and more. Screencastify Screencastify is one of the powerful apps for Chrome OS as it allows you to record your screen with your voice and webcam support.
This extension can help you record tutorials in case you are an educator. While the app is quite good, it puts a watermark if you are recording for more than 5 minutes.
To remove the watermark, you will have to subscribe to a premium plan. In that case, you can use RecordRTC as an alternative. So, depending on your use-case, you can go for either extension. Kami Kami is a complete package in the form of a Chrome extension. You can import any PDF, image, document; annotate on it and then describe everything using the webcam. It helps you create videos on the go as the company has partnered with Google Classroom for seamless creation and syncing with Google Drive.
Simply put, if you are a student who wants to create detailed notes or a serious educator making videos for the internet, Kami is the best Chrome OS app you can go for. Check Out Kami Caret Caret is a top-notch text editor for computer programmers and software engineers available on Chrome OS. I would say, if you are a serious programmer or just a beginner, Caret is the best way to do programming on Chrome OS.
Check Out Caret Cog While we understand that Google wants to make Chrome OS a minimal and user-friendly operating system, some users want to know the technical details about their machine. For that, you can install the Cog extension on your Chromebook. Cog also showcases a real-time graph of the current state of your Chromebook. So, if you want to get nerdy about your Chromebook, install the Cog extension. And now Linux has become a viable platform where you can use apps without any performance or stability issues.
I personally use a lot of Linux apps on my Chromebook so I can vouch for their reliability. I have already made a separate list of best Linux apps for Chromebook so you can go through that if you want an exhaustive list of apps. Nevertheless, here are some of the best Linux apps for Chrome OS that you must give a try.
In our testing, it installed perfectly fine and ran without any hiccups. However, there was quite a bit of lag while dealing with heavy images. As I said above, the apps are running in a container, and on top, there is no support for hardware acceleration yet so the performance takes a hit. It is an excellent program for creating and editing PDF files and works absolutely fine on Chromebooks. So, what are you waiting for? Easy, right? And in case you want to check out more Chromebook-related guides, you can find a few of them below.
More: What is a Chromebook and what can it do? Which Chromebooks support Android apps? More: The best Chromebooks you can buy Download Apps To Chromebook After you enable the Google Play Store in the settings and see it in the app drawer, open it and start browsing or search for an app of choice.
Many of the popular Linux apps are included in the software repositories of most Linux distributions. Therefore, anything on the Debian repositories can be easily installed as long as you know the exact package name. You can simply run the following command in the Terminal to do that. APK files are nothing but app packages for Android, Similarly, there are Debian app packages known as DEB and you can find plenty of those all over the internet. Once you have one, you can just open it normally with a double-click.
In that case, you can again use the Terminal. Like Debian packages, Linux distros also supports several other packaging formats but each format is restricted to a specific distro. Flatpak is one such packaging format developed to work across all Linux distributions. Reboot your machine and then install any Flatpak from the Flathub website.
Read on to find out how to get Android apps on a Chromebook. If not, move on to the next step. Step 7: The Google Play Store appears on the screen. Accept the additional terms and conditions. The process of installing Android apps from the Play Store on a Chromebook is similar to doing so on an Android device. Other Android apps can work the same way — an app will take on the tablet user interface if the developer enabled it. For the latter, they can crash if you force a full-screen window.
Step 1: To install an app, locate it in the Play Store, click on its entry, and click the green Install button. Note: Android apps that are not compatible with your Chromebook will not appear on the Play Store. Step 4: Authorize permissions as needed. For instance, Microsoft Word requests access to media, photos, and files.
You will be able to install these with ease, with just a few clicks. But, same as the apps for Android and iOS, you will see some that cost a certain amount of money. If you want to install an app that comes with a price, you will need Google Account and a Google Payments account that has a valid payment method. That way, you will be able to buy and install the app. In the web store, you can find extensions and themes as well, and the process of getting these is the same as getting the apps.
As I said already, the apps are available in the Chrome web store.
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