# GSC Helper review (2026): is it any good? > Free Chrome extension that adds charts and filters to Search Console Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. GSC Helper is a free Chrome extension from searchanalyzer.io that works inside Google Search Console. It charts performance by week, month or quarter with Google updates overlaid, keeps index coverage history beyond three months, adds annotations, RegEx filters and query n-grams, and merges crawl stats and indexing reports. It reads the data on screen and processes it in your browser, with no login for core features. - **Category:** SEO Browser Extensions - **Made by:** SMC Internet UG (searchanalyzer.io) - **Website:** https://www.searchanalyzer.io/gsc-helper-browser-extension - **Runs on:** Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't have access to the site's Search Console property, as it works nowhere else. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, GSC Helper is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** The extension is free, and its core features need no login or separate account; searchanalyzer.io's own platform is sold separately. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Every feature of the extension, with optional read-only Search Console API access. | Read from https://www.searchanalyzer.io/gsc-helper-browser-extension on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with GSC Helper before buying. ## Key features - **Performance over time:** Charts clicks and impressions by day, week, month or quarter with Google updates overlaid, for Search, Google News and Discover reports. - **Index coverage history:** Builds a local history of indexed and not-indexed pages beyond Search Console's three-month window, and merges several indexing reports into one view. - **Annotations:** Pin deploys and content changes on every Search Console chart, color-coded by tag and scoped to a property, folder or URL, with ticket links. - **Filters and query insights:** Preset and custom RegEx filters (questions, AI Overview triggers, word counts) plus n-grams, click coverage and clicks by position for queries. - **Bulk exports and crawl stats:** Downloads several Search Console reports at once using saved property sets, and combines crawl stats tables into one view with health scores. - **Date shortcuts and BigQuery SQL:** Sets ranges such as quarter to date or last month against a year ago with percent changes, and generates matching BigQuery SQL through gscbigquery.com. ## Good for - SEOs who live in Search Console and are tired of exporting to spreadsheets - Tracking indexing trends past Search Console's three-month limit - Agencies annotating client site changes against traffic ## Worth knowing - It works only inside Google Search Console and needs access to the properties you analyze. - It is available for Chrome only, the vendor's page says. - Data can show wrongly after switching views or properties until the page is refreshed, the FAQ notes. - The store notes the developer has not identified itself as a trader, so EU consumer rights do not apply. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. GSC Helper adds weekly, monthly and quarterly charts with Google updates, index history past three months, annotations, RegEx filters, n-grams and bulk exports to Google Search Console, for free and with no login for its core features. It works only inside Search Console on properties you can access, it's Chrome only, and the FAQ says figures can show wrongly after switching views until you refresh. - **Value for money: A.** Free from searchanalyzer.io, with every feature of the extension included. The company's own Search Console platform is sold separately. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright: charts, index history, annotations, filters, n-grams and bulk exports, with no login for the core features and optional read-only API access. - **Features: C.** Performance by week, month or quarter with Google updates, index history past three months, annotations, RegEx filters, n-grams, merged crawl stats and BigQuery SQL. It does Search Console analysis fully, a smaller job, with no page checks. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but it sits inside the Search Console you already use and needs no login or API key for its core features. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Chrome only, so computers only, the vendor's page says. It works inside Google Search Console and writes SQL for Google BigQuery. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from searchanalyzer.io's own pages and its Chrome Web Store listing on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SEO browser extensions - GSC Helper's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 17 of the 34 other SEO browser extensions we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 5 of 34) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - GSC Helper has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-extensions ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** GSC Helper is free, so making your own would save you nothing. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Search Console, Google BigQuery **Tags:** Reports, Web analytics, Local-first ## Alternatives - [GSC Guardian](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gsc-guardian): Chrome extension adding algorithm updates and notes to Search Console. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gsc-guardian-vs-gsc-helper) - [Google Search Console](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-search-console): Free Google reports on a site's search traffic, indexing and issues. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gsc-helper-vs-gscdaddy) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.searchanalyzer.io/gsc-helper-browser-extension - https://www.searchanalyzer.io/gsc-helper-browser-extension/faq - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gsc-helper-by-searchanaly/gnhafaadncbkbdkbkjejdaofoameoede - https://www.searchanalyzer.io/impressum Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/gsc-helper Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).