Useful Forks

by jeremi.grenier.berthiaume · useful-forks.github.io · Developer Tools

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View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

To list GitHub forks ordered by stars, with additional information and automatic filtering of irrelevant ones.

Users

1,000

0 in 30 days

Rating

5.0 / 5

unchanged in 30 days

Ratings

0 in 30 days

Store rank

#26K

#22K among extensions

Version

2.2.4

updated 26 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 1,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 8 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 Useful Forks

The plugin inserts a button next to the "Fork" button when you visit a GitHub repository. Clicking on it will open a new tab which will use the online tool to scan the forks. This tool aims at increasing the discoverability of useful forks of open-source projects. The criteria is simple: if a fork was created, but never received any other activity on its main branch, it is filtered out. For sharing: the results can be exported as CSV, or you can point people to the quick-link URL.