Stable signalNo paid features detectedHigh-risk permissions

AEM Sidekick

AEM Sidekick allows authors of AEM sites to easily preview and publish content.

Users10KCurrent public install base

Rating4.6Store average score

Reviews11Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

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AEM Sidekick Media preview

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4.64

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2026年7月14日2026年7月20日

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Version7.31.1

ManifestV3

Size1.55MiB

Languages10Deutsch / English / español +7

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Overview

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Edit, preview, and publish your AEM content simply and in-context using AEM Sidekick:

• Jump to the editor from a published page to quickly make content changes

• Switch between configured environments

• Update the preview to see the latest content

• Publish your changes

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Store average score4.6Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average3.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text2Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews11Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.6. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Uday Patel2025年4月11日

The plugin currently feels incomplete. Once a project is added, there's no clear way to change or remove it, which significantly limits usability. While the documentation states that multiple projects are supported, there’s no guidance or examples on how to actually configure or manage them within the plugin. At this point, the plugin could benefit from further development and refinement to meet real-world use cases more reliably.

Jean-Michel Pittet2025年2月22日

So simple - love it

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AI product read

AEM content authoring sidekick that allows authors to preview, publish, and manage AEM site content directly from their browser

Simplifies the content authoring workflow for AEM Sites by providing in-context preview, publish, and editing capabilities without leaving the published page

Author browses an AEM-managed website → extension detects the site matches a configured project → sidekick panel appears → author signs in via Google/Microsoft/Adobe to the AEM Admin service → author can preview unpublished changes, publish content to live, switch environments, or jump to the content editor — all from the sidekick panel overlaid on the page

Target users: AEM site content authors / AEM site administrators / Adobe Experience Manager users

The largest files (index.js at 1MB, views/login/login.js at 584KB, views/json/json.js at 819KB) are minified/bundled and were not fully inspected; core logic in auth.js, actions.js, background.js, content.js, tab.js was fully reviewed
Cannot confirm whether basic sidekick display works without authentication or if sign-in is strictly required for all functionality
The extension relies heavily on external AEM Admin APIs (admin.hlx.page, api.aem.live, tools.aem.live) whose server-side behavior and pricing are not inspectable from extension code alone

Monetization

No paid features detected

No payment, billing, subscription, pricing, premium, or license-gating code found anywhere in the extension source. All 'upgrade' references are apiUpgrade (API version migration, not paid upgrade). All 'pro' keyword hits are substrings of 'project' in German locale files. All 'subscription' references are MobX/Observable code patterns. All 'license' references are Apache License 2.0 headers. The extension is open-source (Apache 2.0). While AEM itself is a commercial Adobe product, the extension does not gate any features behind payment or contain any billing logic.

Confidence: 90
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: Yes
Reason: The extension implements a full login flow against the AEM Admin service (admin.hlx.page / admin.aem.live) using OAuth IDPs (Google, Microsoft, Adobe). The login view (views/login/login.html + login.js) is a dedicated UI, and auth tokens (authToken, siteToken) are stored per-project in session storage and injected as x-auth-token/authorization headers. Locale messages explicitly state: 'You need to sign in before you can use Sidekick' and 'You need to sign in to generate the preview of more than 100 files' / 'You need to sign in to publish more than 100 files.' The core workflow (preview/publish) requires authentication with the AEM Admin destination service.

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High-risk permissions

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扩展能力较强：activeTab、scripting、storage
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

Publisher

Adobe Inc.

Adobe, Inc.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +14085366000
Address: 345 Park Ave San Jose, CA 95110 US

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