Yes. A Chrome extension is the most direct of the tools for People Also Ask, because it works on the results page you’re already looking at. You search Google, open the extension, and it does the clicking for you. Several exist, and they differ in ways that matter.
What a People Also Ask extension does
Google shows only a handful of PAA questions at first. Opening one reveals more, and those reveal more again. In our harvest for “people also ask” on 27 September 2026, the box started with 4 visible questions, and reaching 50 unique ones meant opening about 25 of them. An extension automates that loop.
Most follow the same pattern: read the questions in the box, expand them to a depth you choose, optionally capture the answer and source Google shows under each one, then export the lot. Because the extension reads your own results page, you get fresh questions for your language, location and Google domain.
What it can’t do is change what Google shows. PAA drifts: in that same harvest, only 6 of the 50 questions were about People Also Ask itself. Expect to prune whatever you export.
PAA Box, our extension
PAA Box is our tool. Here’s what it does, without the pitch:
- Depth levels. D0 Lid off (the questions Google already shows), D1 One layer, D2 Two layers, D3 All the way.
- Two modes. Questions only (free), or with answers (PAA Box Pro, coming soon), which also saves Google’s answer and source for each question.
- Export. A CSV that keeps the structure, with depth, question and parent question on each row.
- Scope. Its store listing says it works only on Google search pages. International Google domains are opt-in.
| Depth | Questions only | With answers (Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| D0 Lid off | about 5 sec | about 30 sec |
| D1 One layer | about 10 sec | about 1 min |
| D2 Two layers | about 30 sec | about 4 min |
| D3 All the way | about 1 to 2 min | about 12 min |
It’s live in the Chrome Web Store under its current name, BlogStorm: People Also Ask Tool, with 659 users and 5.0 stars from 13 ratings as of 27 September 2026. PAA Box is the same tool, being rebranded. The listing’s privacy section says the developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.
PAA Box Pro is coming soon, at $7 for the first 7 days, then $90 a year. It will add the with answers mode, a question map, an AKA content plan (Authority, Knowledge, Answer), a copy outline and JSON, history, and use from AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor via MCP. Leave your email to hear when it goes on sale.
Other People Also Ask extensions
We checked each of these by name in the Chrome Web Store on 27 September 2026. The descriptions come from their own listings or sites.
- SEO Pilot. An all-round SEO extension. With its PAA feature switched on, it adds a panel beside Google’s results, lets you set the extraction level from 1 to 5, and downloads a CSV of question, description and URL.
- Detailed SEO Extension. Its maker says this free extension, for Chrome and Firefox, has a PAA extractor in its Advanced tab: choose how many levels deep, and it downloads a CSV.
- PaaQ. Expands, extracts and copies PAA questions from the results page in one go.
- People Also Ask. An extractor that also removes duplicate keywords and cleans up question marks.
- Ahrefs SEO Toolbar. A general SEO toolbar that lists “Keyword ideas and People also ask” among its free features.
Want the opposite? Extensions that hide the box exist too, and we cover them in how to get rid of People Also Ask on Google.
What to check before you install
Permissions
Chrome’s help pages sort extension access into alert levels. “Your data on all the websites you visit” is a medium alert: it lets an extension read, request or modify data on every page you open. “Your data on a list of websites” is narrower. A PAA extractor only needs Google’s search pages, so a short list is a good sign. An all-in-one SEO toolbar may reasonably ask for more because it analyses any page you visit, and SEO Pilot’s listing explains its broad permission on exactly those grounds. Decide whether you want that trade.
Depth
Look for a setting that controls how many layers the extension opens. Deeper means more questions and more waiting, especially if you also collect answers.
Export
A flat list of questions is fine for brainstorming. For planning content you want the tree: which question came from which. Check that the CSV has a parent or level column. There’s more on formats in how to export People Also Ask questions.
Data handling
Every Chrome Web Store listing has a privacy section where the developer declares what it collects. Read it. Some declare nothing. Others declare categories such as personal information or website content, which can be reasonable when a tool has accounts or cloud features. You want a declaration that matches what the tool needs to do.
Upkeep
Check the “Updated” date and the recent reviews. Extractors depend on the layout of Google’s results page, so an extension nobody maintains can quietly stop working.
When an extension is the wrong tool
If you need 1,000 keywords run in one batch, an API, or graphs ready for a client deck, a server-side tool fits better. See what AlsoAsked does for that side of the market.