Shade Calendar – Time Blocking for Google Calendar

Stephan Picher2026年6月3日

★★★★★1

This monetization is a cash grab. The idea that this extension requires "significant time and resources" is laughable. $65/year is wild for what this does. ChatGPT and/or Claude can be used to make this exact extension even with zero coding knowledge. I recommend that everyone go ahead and do that. I also worry about the farming and monetization of my data now that the TOS has been updated. No thanks.

Eliza DelleFave2026年5月28日

★★★★★2

This extension, which I have used for several years, is only worth it if it is free... I might be willing to throw $10/year at it MAX, but I refuse to pay $65/year for shaded blocks on my work calendar. Like others, I will find a free alternative or format my own. I understand it takes time and resources to maintain, but such an inflated price almost certainly is a cash grab.

Nick Asaro2026年5月19日

★★★★★1

$6/mo for color shading on a calendar. The basic Netflix plan is $9/mo. Not to mention, this extension doesn't need any further development or resources. It's a simple nice-to-have. Just found out: you can ask Claude to write this exact extension for you! No need to pay for it. Took less than 5 minutes to set up. Basically, you save 3 small files into a folder on your desktop (or anywhere) and then you load that folder into chrome extensions. It's perfect!

Alexandru Rada2026年5月19日

★★★★★1

will create my own for $6/month. Good luck. Not worth it.

Brie Kennedy-Beal2026年5月18日

★★★★★1

Was a great product before the new laughable $6/monthly subscription. Luckily, I have Claude Cowork and was able to create the extension myself in under five minutes.

Elias Youssef2026年5月16日

★★★★★1

I don't know who you are and anything about your life but I laughed out loud when I saw the pay model of SIX DOLLARS PER MONTHS. Crazy world where people think it's okay to ask for such a monthly amount for such a simple piece of software. Developers used to believe in helping people for free. Don't get me wrong I appreciate your effort and the result of your work but I'm uninstalling this.

Yahya Hussain2026年5月16日

★★★★★2

An OK, simple extension now made paid. 6 dollars a month for long-term users who just would color a few blocks. The extension suddenly deactivates and then I find the pricing page. Give me a break. Not even offering a lot but redundancies with the forced-paid option. Plus using this extension free was a pain because you'd have to manually add the shaded blocks for all 7 days when you needed homogenous daily setups; you couldn't just drag and replicate in any way There also is no option of different shade settings to overlay on calendars as an entire frame

Brady Sewall2026年5月15日

★★★★★1

Was 5 stars. Reduced to 1 star because of new permissions in the updated version as of May 15, 2026, plus it appears to be a paid extension now: - Read and change your data on extensionpay.com - Read your browsing history Unless you're monetizing my data, there's no reason for you to read my browsing history.

Sheri Matthews2026年1月17日

★★★★★1

Used to work great, not there's a £5 a month charge... I would have been willing to make a one off £10 payment or something but £5/month is absolutley insane for what the product is. Respect the creator trying to get their bag but bad pricing strategy is going to drive away users.

David Naylor2025年10月30日

★★★★★3

It's great but the obvious flaw is that the shading completely shades out the grid of the non-work hours. It needs an opacity option for the shading, or the choice to leave the time grid intact, or to recolour it in the non-work period so we can use the non-work period easily too.