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Better GitHub Stars Manager

Manage your GitHub starred repos: tag, note, filter, search across thousands of stars. UI injected into the stars page.

As of June 2026, Better GitHub Stars Manager has users in the Productivity category.

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Version
1.0.5
Manifest V3

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Permissions & access

Permissions
storage
Host access
https://api.github.com/*, https://github.com/*

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About

Short Description
Organize GitHub stars with fast search, tags, notes, filters, and optional Gist sync.

Detailed Description
Better GitHub Stars Manager turns GitHub's native stars page into a fast, local-first workspace for heavy GitHub users.

If you have hundreds or thousands of starred repositories, GitHub's default stars experience becomes hard to manage. This extension helps you turn a passive bookmark list into a usable library without leaving GitHub.

Key features:
- fast search across repository name, description, topics, and your own notes
- filter by language, tags, and untagged items
- add custom tags and personal notes to starred repositories
- view and edit tags directly on repository pages
- auto-suggest tags from repository topics and language
- incremental sync for newly starred repositories
- full rescan to reconcile unstarred repositories while keeping your annotations
- optional cross-device sync for tags and notes through your own secret GitHub Gist

Why it is different:
- local-first architecture for speed
- no separate account
- no custom backend
- your star metadata stays local
- only your annotation layer is optionally synced through your own GitHub account

How it works:
1. Open the extension Options page
2. Paste a GitHub fine-grained personal access token
3. Visit your GitHub stars page
4. Sync your stars into the local database
5. Search, filter, tag, and annotate repositories
6. Use Push and Pull if you want your annotations to sync across devices

Required GitHub permissions:
- Public repositories (read)
- Gists (read and write) for optional sync

The extension works only with GitHub and GitHub APIs.

Test Instructions
Reviewer setup:

1. Open the extension Options page.
2. Paste a GitHub fine-grained personal access token.
3. Grant Public repositories access.
4. Grant Gists: read and write for full sync testing.
5. Click Save & verify.
6. Open https://github.com/{your-username}?tab=stars
7. Click Sync to import starred repositories.
8. Verify that repositories appear and that search, filters, tags, and notes work.
9. Click Push to create or update the dedicated secret sync Gist.
10. Click Pull to fetch synced annotations back into the local database.

Notes:
- The extension works only on GitHub pages.
- It uses https://github.com/* and https://api.github.com/*.
- Gist sync is optional, but Push and Pull require Gists permission.
- The extension stores star metadata locally and syncs only the annotation layer.

Technical

Version
1.0.5
Manifest
V3
Size
555KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
jbiacpcceoffcnmpepifoegagjopjpfa
Developer ID
u6658ee6874a9d2354d693995a4714f14
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Jun 25, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 25, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 26, 2026
Website
Support URL
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 26, 2026.