What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
With this extension you can create checkboxes in markdown and mark them quickly.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| markdown | #36of 4,400 | #90of 1,087↓3 7d |
| todo | #275of 725↓3 7d | #73of 186 |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
34 releases · first published Sept 2016
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Markdown Checkbox’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.