Pocket Tools

Google Workspace add-ons

Small tools that do one job well.

Add-ons and extensions for the software you already work in β€” built to fix a single specific annoyance, and nothing else. Made and maintained by one developer.

Products

Find & Replace with Preview

Search Google Docs by text, by formatting, or by both β€” see every match in a list before anything changes, then replace. Footnotes, headers and footers included.

Google Docs In development Free, or $29/year · $59 lifetime

Page Size & Margins β€” Custom Paper Size

Set any page size in Google Docs β€” custom width and height, margins, and the book trim presets self-publishers use, like 6β€³Γ—9β€³. The built-in dialog stops at eleven presets; this adds the box to type into.

Google Docs In development Free, or $14.99 once

Sort Paragraphs A-Z

Sort selected paragraphs or table rows in Google Docs, in place. Docs can sort a table by a column but cannot sort plain paragraphs at all; this does that, and keeps bold, links and bullets with each line.

Google Docs In development Free, or $4.99 once

Captions & Cross-References

Numbered captions for images and tables in Google Docs, cross-references that jump to them, and one-click renumbering when things move. Docs has none of this built in; anyone writing a report or a thesis notices fast.

Google Docs In development Free, or $9.99 once

Screenplay & Script Format

Write a screenplay as plain text in Google Docs, then format the whole document in one click. Docs has no script template at all; setting screenplay indents by hand means a different ruler position for every kind of line, for the length of a feature.

Google Docs In development Free, or $9.99 once

Style Presets

Save how one Google Doc looks, then put that look on another. The nine named styles with 16 properties each, plus header and footer, link styling and list bullets. It shows you which styles will change before it changes them, and one click puts the document back.

Google Docs In development Free, or $19.99 a year

Maxable

A linear programming solver for Google Sheets. Point it at the model you already have, press Solve, and the best values are written to your cells. Sheets has no built-in solver; this one reads your formulas by nudging them, shows its progress, and never sends your sheet anywhere.

Google Sheets In development Free, or $39 a year

Each product is listed here with the exact permissions it requests before it ships. A product not listed on the privacy page is not published by Pocket Tools.

How these are built

Your content stays put

No document content ever leaves the platform it lives on. There is no server to send it to.

The narrowest permission

Each product asks for the least access that lets it work, and the exact list is published.

No tracking, ever

No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts β€” in the products or on this site.

Support

Questions, bug reports and feature requests go to [email protected], and are answered by the developer who wrote the thing. Common answers, license questions and what to put in a bug report are on the support page.