The Best New Tab Page Extensions in 2026 (Honest Comparison)

You open a new tab dozens, maybe hundreds, of times a day. That makes the new tab page the highest-traffic screen in your digital life, and the default one does almost nothing. Here's an honest look at the main options for replacing it, including where each one genuinely shines.

Full disclosure: we make Anchor, one of the tools on this list. We've tried to be fair. Every product here is the right answer for somebody, and we say who.

Momentum: best for calm and focus

Momentum is the category's household name, with millions of users. Each new tab shows a gorgeous daily photo, a greeting, one main focus for the day, and a small to-do list. Plus ($3.33/month, billed annually) adds integrations (Todoist, Asana, ClickUp), soundscapes, and more.

Choose Momentum if you want your new tab to be a moment of calm and a single daily intention. Look elsewhere if you want your new tab to hold your stuff. Momentum is deliberately minimal, and bookmarks are not its focus.

start.me: best for teams and information-dense dashboards

start.me is the veteran of the personal-dashboard category: widget-heavy pages with bookmarks, RSS feeds, notes, and more. There's a free tier, a PRO plan ($25/year), and team plans, and the team/intranet use case is where it's strongest. OSINT researchers and organizations that share curated link collections love it.

Choose start.me if you need shared pages for a team, or you want RSS feeds on your dashboard. Look elsewhere if you want something that feels fast and modern as a personal new tab; the information density comes with a busier, more dated feel.

Tabliss: best free minimalist option

Tabliss is a lovely open-source new tab with beautiful backgrounds and small widgets (clock, greeting, quotes). It's completely free, private, and configurable.

Choose Tabliss if you want a pretty, lightweight new tab with no account and no business model attached. Look elsewhere if you need bookmark organization, sync across devices, or calendar and task integrations. That's beyond its scope.

Toby: best for tab hoarders

Toby approaches the problem from the tab side. Instead of organizing bookmarks, it organizes sessions: collections of open tabs you save and restore. Great for people whose workflow is "I had 40 tabs open for this project and need them back Tuesday."

Choose Toby if your pain is tab overload and project-based browsing. Look elsewhere if you want a curated, permanent home base rather than saved tab sessions.

Anchor: best for organizing your actual links

Anchor (that's us) treats your new tab like an operating system treats your desktop: a spatial, visual home for the links you actually use. Bookmarks live in groups arranged in multi-column layouts across multiple desktops. One for work, one for personal, one per project. Widgets put your Google or Microsoft calendar, Todoist tasks, notes, and weather on the same page.

Two things we think we do better than anyone:

• No account needed. Anchor works instantly. Your desktop is stored privately in your own browser until you choose to sign in for free cloud sync.
• AI bookmark import. Export your existing bookmarks from any browser, import them into Anchor, and AI sorts the pile into tidy groups for you. The "I have 2,000 unsorted bookmarks" problem, solved in a minute.

Anchor is free to use, with no ads or data selling. Choose Anchor if your new tab should be an organized desktop for the web: bookmarks first, with your day's essentials alongside. Look elsewhere if you want pure minimalism (Tabliss/Momentum) or team-shared dashboards (start.me).

The bottom line

Whichever you pick: the default new tab page is the only wrong answer. You look at this screen more than any other. It should work for you.

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