Gplex Extended: The World's Most Advanced Retro Google Frontend

Gplex Extended puts Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Drive, Docs and the rest of Google back in the look of the year you pick, from the 1997 Stanford page to 2024. It is a free userscript for Firefox and Chrome.

Download Latest How to install

Version 6.5.7 - September 28, 2026 - 175 downloads - Free and open source (MIT) - Firefox, Chrome, Edge and more

Windows XP or Firefox 52? Get Gplex Legacy.

Search results in the Late 2011-Early 2012 layout

Pick your year

2004-2005

2010-Early 2011

Late 2012-2013

2016

2019-Early 2022

Every layout from 1997 to 2024 is listed on the Layouts page. You can also switch by searching for Google in 2009 (or any other year).

What it does

All of Google, not just the home page

Search and its results, Images, News, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Translate, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drive, Photos, Keep, the sign-in and sign-up pages, the Google Account pages, the apps menu and even Google's error pages.

True to the period

Logos, icons and pictures are Google's own from the time, taken from Google's servers or the Wayback Machine's copies of the pages, not redrawn. Details follow the calendar: the 2010 logo arrives in May 2010, the new logo on 1 September 2015.

Your account stays yours

Sign-in and password pages are only restyled. Gplex never reads, stores or sends anything you type there. Google's AI features (Gemini, "Help me write" and the like) are kept out of the way.