Overview
Google and YouTube in their old look: pick any year from 1997 to 2024. An unofficial fan project.
Gplex Extended brings back the old look of Google. Pick a year from 1997 to 2024 and Google's websites look the way they did back then: the logo, the navigation bar, the buttons, the footer and even the tab icon. Everything you see is real and current. Your searches, your email and your files are today's, just shown in the design of the year you picked. HOW IT WORKS Choose a year on the settings page and Gplex redraws each Google page in that year's design as it loads. Search results come back with the period's layout, including knowledge panels and "People also ask" boxes drawn the way they used to look, with quoted answers from real web pages instead of AI-written ones. Your inbox, your maps, your documents and your other Google pages follow the same year, and so do the sign-in pages, which are restyled only: nothing you type there is read. Every part can be switched on or off separately, so you can keep anything just as Google has it today. YOUTUBE Gplex Extended for YouTube shows YouTube in the layout of your year as well, using the real YouTube design of that time. It works together with the separate V3 extension, which needs to be installed for YouTube. It is based on StarTube by lightbeam24, and you can also pick any of its layouts by hand. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Nothing is collected. Your settings, and the name and picture Google shows in its own bar, stay in your browser. There are no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no server of ours involved: the extension only talks to Google and YouTube, the same way their own pages do. There are no AI features either; Google's AI prompts are removed, not added. Privacy policy: https://gplexextended.com/privacy FREE AND OPEN SOURCE Gplex Extended is free and open source under the MIT license, maintained by Ziptino9098 and based on the original Gplex by lightbeam24. Website: https://gplexextended.com Source code and bug reports: https://github.com/Ziptino9098/Gplex-Fixed Gplex Extended is a fan project. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Google and YouTube are trademarks of Google LLC.
Details
- Version7.2.18
- UpdatedOctober 4, 2026
- Size3.18MiB
- LanguagesEnglish (United States)
- DeveloperWebsite
Email
ziptino9098@icloud.com - Non-traderThis developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.
Privacy
Gplex Extended has disclosed the following information regarding the collection and usage of your data. More detailed information can be found in the developer's privacy policy.
Gplex Extended handles the following:
This developer declares that your data is
- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
Support
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