Can we rebuild it?

Can we rebuild Growth Tracker?

Build a Chrome extension like Growth Tracker — a Growth Tracker alternative you own.

If you want to build your own Growth Tracker, this Chrome extension is straightforward to replicate. It functions primarily as a local mood diary and calendar overview, making it an ideal DIY alternative that keeps your intimate thoughts and daily logs entirely private.

The listing record

What Growth Tracker does

Track your mood and journal your thoughts right in your browser! Growth Tracker features: >Daily mood tracking >Daily Journaling >Year overview >View and edit past entries >Export mood/journal history >Offline support >Lock entries to prevent accidental editing >Calming plant theme Designed and programmed by Namesnipes and WillowRed AKA Cmd Cat

What the store says

★ 4.4 from 11 ratings · 5K users

Pulled live from the Chrome Web Store listing at analysis time.

Can PlugThis rebuild Growth Tracker?

Why build your own Growth Tracker alternative

• Full privacy with your personal journal entries kept under your control
• Custom mood metrics, tags, and reflection prompts tailored to your needs
• Direct export to markdown, JSON, or your own Notion/Obsidian vault
• No reliance on third-party developers maintaining the extension

What it costs vs what you'd save

The starter prompt

Build a Chrome extension for daily mood tracking and journaling. Include a popup or side panel UI with a mood selector (1-5 scale), a text area for daily notes, a full-year visual overview grid showing mood colors, and an export button for JSON/CSV. Store all entries locally in chrome.storage.local with an option to lock past entries.

Features you could add that Growth Tracker doesn't have

Because you own the code, these are a follow-up prompt away — tap one to add it to the prompt above.

• Obsidian/Notion Sync — Automatically push daily journal entries directly into your personal knowledge base.
  + add to prompt
• Custom Mood Tags — Track specific habits, sleep quality, or energy levels alongside general mood.
  + add to prompt

Questions about rebuilding Growth Tracker

How to build it yourself

1. 1
   Open PlugThis and start a new build

   Head to PlugThis and start a new Chrome extension. You're describing a Growth Tracker alternative you'll own outright — no store subscription.

2. 2
   Paste the starter prompt

   Paste the starter prompt above. PlugThis expands it into a full Manifest V3 extension — popup, content scripts, and service worker included.

3. 3
   Review, tweak, and load it

   Review the generated code, ask for tweaks in plain English, then download and load the unpacked extension in Chrome to try it.

4. 4
   Publish it (optional)

   When you're happy, publish your Growth Tracker alternative to the Chrome Web Store — or just keep it as a private tool for yourself.

More teardowns

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