Stable signalUnknownMedium-risk permissions

Virtru Email Protection

Surprisingly easy email protection and control for Gmail.

Users700KCurrent public install base

Rating4.0Store average score

Reviews115Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

Preview

Virtru Email Protection Media preview

8 assets

Trend

User growth trend

Review user movement across collected snapshots.

User Growth Over Time

Rating trend

7-day rating trend

View collected rating snapshots from the latest 7-day window to assess rating stability.

7-day rating change

Start

3.95

Latest

3.95

7-day rating change

0.00

2026年7月12日2026年7月18日

Growth overview

Daily, weekly, and monthly growth

Compare 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day net growth and growth rate.

1-day growthNo data

----

7-day growthFlat

00%

30-day growthNo data

----

Technical snapshot

Version, languages, and crawl freshness

Review publication date, version, supported languages, and crawl timestamps.

Version12.7.11

ManifestV3

Size7.58MiB

Languages4English / français / svenska +1

Published--

Store updated--

Last crawled--

Overview

Product summary

Review the store description, core capabilities, and common use cases.

Easily protect Gmail messages and attachments, and maintain control wherever they’re shared.

At Virtru, we understand that data is an organization’s most valuable asset and sharing it is critical for business success. But sharing data creates significant risk. We believe no one should have to choose between protecting data and sharing it. We help more than 6100+ organizations, large and small, across almost every industry, protect data wherever it’s created or shared so they can collaborate with confidence.

Privacy

Ensure Gmail messages and attachments stay private so you don’t have to trust Google with your data.

Compliance

Maintain compliance with data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS, ITAR, CCPA, FERPA, CMMC, NIST, and more.

Reviews

Recent review snapshot

Inspect the latest comments and rating distribution.

Store average score4.0Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average3.6Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text64Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews115Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.0. 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.

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Stephanie Futral2026年2月11日

Not a single person can open any of my emails, even other Virtru protection users. Garbage

Stephanie Pettersson2026年1月27日

When it works it seems to function just fine on my end. I have had multiple clients report to me that the link has expired, despite it set to "not expire". Additionally, I have to uninstall and install from Chrome nearly weekly due to some issue with Virtru and Gmail. It is very inconvenient and I lose confidence in this program.

Abdirahman Abdullahi2025年5月5日

I want to give this extension a higher grade but it tries to encrypt all of my emails even though i turn it off which makes it frustrating. Hopefully yhis can be resolved soon so I can give it the 5 stars it deserves otherwise I will have to try another extension that can do this more effectively.

Agney Deshpande2025年4月16日

When I first download the Chrome extension, it works great, but after a day when I reopen my Gmail, Virtru is not active even though it shows up in my Chrome extensions list. Each time I want to use it, I have to uninstall and reinstall the extension. This is very frustrating.

Isaias O2025年1月27日

Appears to work, I sent a "Secured" email to someone who didn't have the extension installed in their browser. Responding to my secured email didn't appear to be too onerous of a process for my recipient. My only question is: who controls the encryption keys? Is this an asynchronous encryption process using on-the-fly public/private encryption key generation? I guess that I need to go to the Virtru website and learn how this works.

Jeremy McInerney2024年11月20日

Caused my emails to be marked as SPAM in Google Email Server scoring algorithm. Super frustrating. Otherwise, easy to use encryption tool that I had been using for a few years.

LaToya Davidson-Perez2024年4月15日

Super easy to use extension that doesn't clash with any of my existing extensions. You essentially don't have to change how you send an email. I was using separate software outside of Gmail to send encrypted data. Now, it's super intuitive and easy!

Mark Anthony Allen2024年3月21日

Another google piece of junk. can you make it harder to install.

Dr. Jeff Moore2024年3月12日

Y All I want is to find the button to reinstall virtu. You guys must enjoy making the simple, complicated and time consuming. My old judo instructor always said, "16 steps to the outhouse by 'will he make it'. So far all, this sounds like a politician who says a lot, and yet nothing at all that make sense. Just send me the info I need and not all the floss.

SendSafely Encryption for Chrome and Gmail

Communication

Chrome extension that provides end-to-end encryption for Gmail. Encrypt private emails and securely share files up to 10GB.

AI product read

End-to-end email encryption and access control for Gmail

Protects sensitive Gmail messages and attachments with encryption while maintaining compliance with data privacy regulations (HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS, ITAR, CCPA, FERPA, CMMC, NIST). Enables secure sharing beyond Google's ecosystem while preventing unauthorized access.

1. Install extension and activate with Virtru account (email or SAML/federated login) 2. Open Gmail compose window - Virtru adds protect toggle 3. Enable protection to encrypt message and attachments 4. Set access controls (expiration, forwarding restrictions, watermarking) 5. Send encrypted email - recipients receive secure link 6. Recipients can decrypt and view through Virtru secure viewer 7. Sender maintains control - can revoke access, track views, modify permissions via Control Center

Target users: Enterprise organizations requiring email compliance / Healthcare professionals needing HIPAA-compliant email / Government and defense contractors (CJIS, ITAR, CMMC) / Financial services handling sensitive data / Educational institutions (FERPA compliance) / Any Gmail user concerned about email privacy

No explicit pricing or subscription tier code found in extension source
Cannot confirm if extension has a free tier vs entirely enterprise-paid model
Feature gating logic (canCreatePolicies) unclear - may be admin-controlled rather than subscription-based

Monetization

Unknown

No monetization details are available yet.

Confidence: 0
Payment platform: --
Source: None / Medium
Login required: Yes
Reason: The extension requires activation with a Virtru account. The popup checks profile.auth.status ('active', 'new') and displays activation buttons for unauthenticated users. Background.js implements email-based login (accountService.sendLoginEmail), federated authentication, and SAML authentication flows. The extension communicates with accounts.virtru.com, acm.virtru.com, and secure.virtru.com for authentication. Users cannot use encryption features without activating their Virtru account.

Permission risk

Medium-risk permissions

This estimate uses declared permissions and host permissions to assess access scope and sensitivity.

扩展能力较强：storage

Publisher

Virtru Corporation

Virtru

Email: [email protected]
Phone: --
Address: 1801 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 US

Public contact fields are shown above. Developer portfolio pages are available on paid accounts.

View developer portfolio

Permissions

Host access