What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Synchronize Settings, Snippets, Themes, File Icons, Launch, Keybindings, Workspaces and Extensions Across Multiple Machines Using GitHub Gist.
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.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#1 on Marketplace for “sync”, #321 on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| sync | #1of 1,318 | #321of 337↓4 7d |
| icons | #413of 779↓13 7d | #203of 203↓3 7d |
4 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
103 releases · first published Dec 2015
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Settings Sync’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.