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From extension stores

Scratch Addons is available in these stores.

Store Install Supported browsers System requirements
Chrome Web Store Install for Chrome Web Store Google Chrome 80+
Microsoft Edge 80+
Opera 67+
Brave 1.3+
Vivaldi 2.11+
Chromium 80+		 Windows 7+
OS X / MacOS 10.11+
Chromebooks less than ~6 years old
Add-ons for Firefox Install for Add-ons for Firefox Mozilla Firefox 86+ Windows 7+
OS X / MacOS 10.12+
Microsoft Edge Add-ons Install for Microsoft Edge Addons Microsoft Edge 80+ Windows 7+
OS X / MacOS 10.11+

From source

About GitHub releases

The releases page contains the code and installation files for all development builds of Scratch Addons, as well as the mirror of the store builds.

Cloning the repository

This is the recommended way to install Scratch Addons for development purposes. This assumes you have Git installed.

To download the repository, simply clone https://github.com/ScratchAddons/ScratchAddons.git.

$ git clone https://github.com/ScratchAddons/ScratchAddons.git

To update Scratch Addons, first cd into its folder, and then run the following commands.

$ git fetch
$ git pull

This will update Scratch Addons and get it ready for code editing. Note that you will need to see the finish updating section here if you are using Google Chrome.

Downloading the zipball

If you don't have Git installed, you can try this method instead. Note that you will need to manually repeat this process every time you want to update Scratch Addons.

  1. Go to the repository and find the download code button.

    Download code button screenshot

  2. Click it and select "Download ZIP".

    Download ZIP button screenshot

  3. Extract the archive into a folder.

Installing on Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge

  1. Type chrome://extensions into your address bar to open the Extension Management page.

  2. Click the toggle next to Developer mode to turn on the Developer Mode. This allows you to install extensions from a folder or file.

    Extension Management top bar screenshot

  3. You should see the Load unpacked button appear. Clicking it will allow you to select a folder to upload.

    Load unpacked button screenshot

  4. Select the extracted folder.

  5. The extension should now be loaded.

To finish updating (assuming you followed the updating steps here), click the Update button:

Update button screenshot

Installing on Mozilla Firefox

  1. Type about:debugging into your address bar to open the debugging page.

  2. Click This Firefox on the left-hand menu.

    Left-hand menu screenshot

  3. Click Load Temporary Add-on....

    Load Temporary Add-on button screenshot

  4. Select the manifest.json file inside the extracted folder.

  5. The extension should now be loaded.

Note: Firefox temporary add-ons are actually temporary. Restarting Firefox will remove them, so if you want to use the development version of Scratch Addons all the time, it is recommended that you use a Chromium-based browser like Google Chrome.

TurboWarp

Some addons, primarily editor addons, are implemented natively within TurboWarp (so called TurboWarp Addons). If you want to try the select addons of Scratch Addons without installing the browser extension, this is one way of it. Check out https://turbowarp.org/addons to configure the available addons.

Since TurboWarp also offers a desktop client, this means that you can also use the available addons as an offline editor app.