Top Mail Tracker Extensions for Chrome

Track Chrome Web Store rankings and performance metrics for mail tracker extensions

Google Chrome Web Store

Competitive Sales Tool Market

Chrome mail tracker extensions serve sales professionals and email marketers, with Mailtrack achieving 3 million installs and 4.42 stars from 11.4K reviews, demonstrating sustained demand for email read receipts and engagement analytics. The category addresses professional communication transparency—users tracking when recipients open emails, click links, or download attachments. Install volumes show moderate adoption compared to mainstream productivity categories, reflecting sales-specific use cases rather than universal email user needs.

Leadership Distribution

Mailtrack leads at 3M installs (4.42 stars, 11.4K reviews), followed by Hunter at 1M (4.43 stars, 3.3K reviews), creating a 3x gap to second place. Mid-tier competitors cluster around 200K-400K installs: Yesware (400K, 4.18 stars, 1.7K reviews), Mixmax (300K, 4.64 stars, 3.4K reviews), Streak CRM (300K, 4.40 stars, 8.3K reviews), and Bananatag (200K, 4.29 stars, 1.2K reviews). Notably, Mixmax achieves the highest rating (4.64 stars) among major competitors, suggesting superior feature integration beyond basic tracking. Lower-tier alternatives show weaker adoption: Gmelius (100K, 4.42 stars), MailTag (50K, 3.88 stars), and SalesHandy (30K, 4.28 stars).

Success Patterns

Mail tracker success correlates with feature breadth beyond simple read receipts. Top performers integrate tracking with productivity tools: Streak CRM embeds pipeline management directly in Gmail (8.3K reviews), Mixmax combines tracking with meeting scheduling and email sequences (4.64 stars), and Yesware offers sales template libraries alongside analytics (1.7K reviews). Rating variation shows quality differentiation: Mixmax (4.64 stars) significantly outperforms Yesware (4.18 stars) despite similar install counts, indicating users value seamless integration and reliability. Free tier generosity impacts adoption—Mailtrack's unlimited free tracking drives its 3M install leadership versus freemium competitors limiting free sends.

Market Opportunities

The mail tracker category faces increasing privacy headwinds and platform restrictions limiting growth potential. Gmail's native read receipt indicators, recipients' increasing use of privacy-focused email clients blocking tracking pixels, and iOS Mail Privacy Protection degrading accuracy reduce addressable market. Mailtrack's dominant position with 3M installs creates substantial barriers for new tracking-only extensions. Opportunities exist for differentiated approaches: sales automation platforms combining tracking with outreach sequences (Mixmax's 4.64-star success), CRM-integrated solutions embedding tracking within sales workflows (Streak's Gmail-native approach), or privacy-respecting alternatives using engagement signals beyond tracking pixels. Success requires moving beyond commodity tracking toward comprehensive sales engagement platforms or vertical-specific solutions (real estate follow-ups, recruiting pipelines) where tracking contextualizes broader workflows rather than standalone feature.

Top Extensions

Email Tracker by Mailtrack®

Free, unlimited email tracker for Gmail, trusted by millions. Accurate, reliable, GDPR-compliant, and Google-audited.

3,000,000 installs ★ 4.4 (11,449) Communication
Email Tracker + Pixelblock Detector & Blocker

Find out if your emails get read + pixelblock. Free & unlimited email tracking for Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Office 365 & Yahoo Mail

300,000 installs ★ 4.6 (1,114) Workflow & Planning
RightInbox: Email Reminders, Tracking, Notes

Send emails later, recurring emails, notes, follow up emails, templates, signatures, CRM & more

100,000 installs ★ 4.6 (12,387) Workflow & Planning
Unlimited Email Tracker by Snov.io

Email tracker for Gmail. Email opens tracking and link clicks statistics for your email messages.

100,000 installs ★ 4.9 (9,480) Workflow & Planning
MailTracker: Email tracker for Gmail

Track if your emails are opened & how many times. Be notified when your emails are read with our advanced Email Tracking extension.

100,000 installs ★ 4.7 (4,925) Communication
Mixmax: AI-Powered Sales Engagement, Email Tracking and Meeting Scheduling

Make sales outreach feel effortless—not endless—with the only sales engagement tool that lives in Gmail.

70,000 installs ★ 4.5 (553) Workflow & Planning
Streak Email Tracking for Gmail

Know when your email is viewed.

60,000 installs ★ 4.8 (476) Workflow & Planning
Email Tracker by cloudHQ

Know when your emails are opened in real-time

30,000 installs ★ 4.2 (249) Communication
Email Signature & Email Tracker. MySignature

Free email signature generator: customizable templates. Email tracking: opens & clicks. Gmail

20,000 installs ★ 4.7 (49) Tools
Free Email Tracker by Saleshandy

100% free email tracking without any hidden signatures, logos or gimmicks.

10,000 installs ★ 4.4 (330) Workflow & Planning
Email Tracker, Email Tracking w/ AI - Mailtag

Email Tracker 2.0. Email tracking that gets more Responses. Free mail tracking, Signatures and Campaigns.

10,000 installs ★ 3.9 (233) Workflow & Planning
Email Privacy Protector: Is My Email Tracked?

Anytime you open your emails, people could be tracking when you do it, and which links you click on. Protect your email privacy.

10,000 installs ★ 4.3 (97) Communication
Geotrack Email Tracking with Geolocation

Email tracking with geolocation right in Gmail, with real time statistics.

10,000 installs ★ 4.3 (94) Workflow & Planning
Saleshandy Connect: Email Tracker & Lookup

All-in-one tool to track opens & clicks right in your Gmail and look up email addresses in one click.

10,000 installs ★ 3.7 (6) Workflow & Planning
Email Tracker for Yandex.Mail - TraksPaks

How to know if an email has been read? TraksPaks solves this problem for Yandex.Mail users.

7,000 installs ★ 4.2 (70) Workflow & Planning