HubSpot’s sidebar navigation is built for every possible user. Which means it is cluttered for every actual user.

If you are in Sales, you do not need the Marketing menu taking up space. If you are in Service, you probably never open Commerce. But HubSpot gives everyone the same menu, and there is no way to customise it natively.

So I built a Chrome extension that fixes that.

What It Does

HubSpot Custom NavBar lets you take full control of your sidebar:

• Hide what you do not need — remove entire menus or individual dropdown items. If you never use Commerce, it is gone. If there are three items in Reporting you never click, hide just those three.
• Rename menus — give sections custom labels that match how your team actually talks. If “Contacts” should be “Clients” in your world, change it.
• Swap icons — choose from 50+ Phosphor icons or copy icons from other menus. Build visual shortcuts your brain recognises instantly.
• Reorder items — drag and drop to put your most-used links at the top of each dropdown. No more scrolling past five options to reach the one you actually use.

Changes apply instantly and persist across sessions. All customisations are stored locally in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.

Why This Matters

This might sound like a small quality-of-life thing. It is not.

The average HubSpot user clicks through the sidebar dozens of times a day. Every irrelevant menu item is a micro-decision: “Is that the one I need? No. Next one.” Multiply that by every team member, every day, and you have a significant attention cost.

More importantly, when your navigation matches how you actually work, you spend less time navigating and more time doing the thing you opened HubSpot to do.

The community response to this has been overwhelming — 252 users picked it up, and it has been one of our most-discussed launches. It turns out a lot of people were quietly frustrated by the same sidebar.

Privacy

Everything runs locally. The extension scans your sidebar dynamically, applies your rules in your browser, and stores your preferences in Chrome’s local storage. No external servers, no data collection, no account required.

Try It

HubSpot Custom NavBar is completely free.

Install from the Chrome Web Store: HubSpot Custom NavBar

Learn more: Hubspot Custom Navbar Page

If you have a suggestion for what else should be customisable — or a menu layout that works well for your role — I would love to hear it.