Hide Upgrade Button for Gmail, Drive & Docs icon

Hide Upgrade Button for Gmail, Drive & Docs

by maximtop · Workflow & Planning
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Hides the Upgrade and Ask Gemini buttons in Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Docs, plus the Upgrade button in Google Calendar

Users
1,000
+381 in 30 days
Rating
4.8 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
27
+4 in 30 days
Store rank
#24K
#20K among extensions
Version
0.4.0
updated 1 Oct 2026

Users

monthly, 3 months
05001,000Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 1,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 months
01427Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 27 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Hide Upgrade Button for Gmail, Drive & Docs

Google keeps a permanent "Upgrade" button in the header of Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs — and an "Ask Gemini" button next to it. If you are not planning to upgrade, that is advertising you look at all day. This extension removes it. Install, and both buttons are gone — cleanly, with the neighboring icons closing the gap, as if they were never there. Key features • Hides the Upgrade button and the Ask Gemini button in Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs • Also hides the Upgrade button in Google Calendar: turn on "Enable in Google Calendar" in the popup • Each button has its own toggle in the popup; both are on by default • No flashing: hiding applies before the page is painted and survives Google's dynamic re-renders and in-app navigation • Works immediately in tabs that were already open when you installed it • Toggling a setting applies live to every open tab — no reloads • Interface in 40 languages When Google changes something Google's markup is obfuscated and changes without notice, so the extension never relies on fragile class names. It recognizes the buttons by stable signals — labels, roles, placement in the header — and when a match is uncertain it deliberately does nothing rather than hide the wrong control. If Google changes the interface enough, a button may reappear for a while: nothing breaks, and an extension update will restore hiding. The popup has a "Report a problem" link so reappearing buttons get noticed quickly. Permissions, in plain words • Storage — keeps your two toggle values on your device • Scripting — applies the extension to Gmail/Drive/Docs tabs that were already open at install time • Access to mail.google.com, drive.google.com and docs.google.com — the only sites it runs on; it cannot read any other page • Access to calendar.google.com (optional) — requested only when you turn on "Enable in Google Calendar" and removed when you turn it off; it is optional so the extension does not ask for Calendar access from people who don't need it Privacy No account, no analytics, no servers, no network requests. The only data the extension stores is the two on/off toggles, locally in your browser. Privacy policy: https://github.com/maximtop/hide-gmail-upgrade-button/blob/master/PRIVACY.md Free and open source: https://github.com/maximtop/hide-gmail-upgrade-button This extension is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC, referenced only to describe compatibility.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%+1+0.01
30 days+381+61.6%+40.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Hide Upgrade Button for Gmail, Drive & Docs appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
upgrade#10
button for google#6+1
button for google calendar#27new
drive#46+17

Version history

4 versions recorded
0.4.01 Oct 2026
0.3.026 Sep 2026
0.2.024 Aug 2026
0.1.030 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
30 Jul 2026
Size
122 KB
Languages
de, en, fil, id, nl, vi, tr, ca
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Support
github.com
Extension ID
flakajdfnklpgiefoffmecgbfbckmpcb

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storagescripting
Site access
https://mail.google.com/*https://drive.google.com/*https://docs.google.com/*

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