apple-mail vs claude-mac-chrome
apple-mail is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Ioan Dinu. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). claude-mac-chrome is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by yolo-labz. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-17. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  claude-mac-chrome | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace imdinu/apple-mail-mcp | Listed Version: 0.5.0 Forks (GitHub): 28 Stars (GitHub): 72 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.1.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | apple-mail | claude-mac-chrome |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 72 (better) | 2 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 28 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not published | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/imdinu/apple-mail-mcp | github.com/yolo-labz/claude-mac-chrome |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
apple-mail
Apple Mail for Claude — search, read, and triage email backed by an FTS5 index with full body coverage and no recency cap. Tested on ~73K-message mailboxes where AppleScript-based servers time out.
claude-mac-chrome
Professional Chrome automation for Claude Code on macOS. Deterministic multi-profile detection via Chrome's authoritative Local State catalog combined with email extraction from tab titles and same-email disambiguation via SNSS Sessions/Tabs URL-set overlap. Addresses windows and tabs by stable AppleScript string IDs instead of ordinal indices. Zero user configuration, zero dependencies, shellcheck + shfmt clean.
How to run each
apple-mail As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add imdinu/apple-mail-mcp
/plugin install apple-mail@imdinuclaude-mac-chrome As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install claude-mac-chrome@claude-communityCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: apple-mail · What it can do: claude-mac-chrome · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.