Best new tab extensions for Chrome in 2027
Eight extensions that take over the Chrome new tab page, and the kind of person each one is actually for. No scores, no winner — they’re solving different problems and most of the arguments about which is best are really arguments about what you want your browser to do.
Install counts and ratings checked on the Chrome Web Store, 2026-09-11.
The short version
| Extension | For | Users | Rating | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Momentum | You want the page calmer than it is now, not busier | 2,000,000 | 4.5 | Free, with a Plus plan |
| Infinity New Tab | You open the same twenty sites and want them one click away | 400,000 | 4.6 | Free, with a Pro plan |
| Muzli | You’re a designer and want to see what people made today | 400,000 | 4.5 | Free |
| Bonjourr | You find the default page distracting | 300,000 | 4.9 | Free, open source |
| Toby | Your problem is tabs, not decoration | 300,000 | 4.2 | Free, with team plans |
| Speed Dial 2 | You liked how Opera did this fifteen years ago | 300,000 | 4.1 | Free, with a Pro plan |
| Tabliss | You want a beautiful page with no upsell anywhere in it | 100,000 | 4.7 | Free, no paid tier at all |
| New Tab Studio (ours) | You want to build the page rather than choose one | 40,000 | 4.9 | Free, with PRO |
What kind of new tab do you actually want?
Worth answering before you install anything, because it cuts the list in half immediately. There are broadly four answers.
- Calmer. The default page stresses you out and you want a photograph and the time. Bonjourr, Tabliss, Momentum.
- Faster. You open the same sites all day and want them one click away. Infinity, Speed Dial 2.
- Useful. The page should carry your tasks, deadlines and habits. New Tab Studio, and Momentum for a lighter version of the same idea.
- Something else entirely. Tabs are your problem (Toby), or you want a design feed (Muzli).
Momentum
2,000,000 users · 4.5★ (13.7K) · Free, with a Plus planOne photo, one question, one task
The one everybody has heard of, and by install count it’s not close, roughly fifty times our own audience. It replaces the new tab with a full-screen photograph, your name, the time, and one question: what’s your main focus for today?
That question is the entire product. You answer it once in the morning and the answer sits under the clock all day. Everything else — the weather, the to-do list, the quote — is kept small and out of the way.
It’s the most opinionated page on this list. Where the opinion suits you, nothing beats it. Where it doesn’t, you are stuck, because adjustment is not really on offer.
Best if you want to be asked one good question every morning and left alone the rest of the day.
Infinity New Tab
400,000 users · 4.6★ (11.8K) · Free, with a Pro planA grid of icons, and plenty of them
Infinity is a launcher first. You get a grid of large round icons for the sites you use, on a wallpaper, with a search box above it. Add to that a to-do list, notes, weather and a bookmark manager, most of them tucked into a sidebar.
The grid is the reason to install it. If your browsing is a fixed set of destinations rather than a fixed set of tasks, a page of big obvious icons beats anything clever.
The trade-off is that everything lives in a grid. It’s tidy and it’s not yours to arrange.
Best if your new tab is a launchpad and you want the icons big.
Muzli
400,000 users · 4.5★ (833) · FreeA design feed where your new tab used to be
Muzli isn’t really a new tab page. It’s a design publication that happens to live there. Every tab is a fresh wall of work: Dribbble shots, product launches, typography, colour, the occasional long read.
For designers it’s genuinely good, and the placement is the clever part. Inspiration you have to seek out gets sought out roughly never; inspiration that arrives forty times a day gets absorbed.
It also has no interest in your tasks, your calendar or your deadline. Different job entirely.
Best if your new tab should feed you ideas rather than remind you of work.
Bonjourr
300,000 users · 4.9★ (24K) · Free, open sourceBeautifully, aggressively minimal
The best-rated extension on this list, and it’s not a fluke: 4.9 across twenty-four thousand ratings is a remarkable number for anything. It takes it by doing very little, very carefully.
A clock, a greeting, a search bar, a set of link tiles, an Unsplash photo that changes through the day. Fonts and layout are adjustable in ways that stay tasteful. It’s open source, it’s fast, and it doesn’t ask for an account.
What it won’t do is hold your work. No task lists, no habit tracking, no calendar. That’s the point of it.
Best if the ideal new tab is a beautiful blank page with the time on it.
Toby
300,000 users · 4.2★ (3.3K) · Free, with team plansFor people with eighty tabs open
Toby belongs on this list with an asterisk. It replaces the new tab, but it’s a tab manager, you group open tabs into named collections, close them all, and bring the whole session back later in one click.
If you routinely have more tabs than you can read the titles of, this solves a real and specific pain, and none of the other extensions here touch it.
It’s also a team product, with accounts and shared collections, which is more structure than most people came looking for when they searched for a new tab page.
Best if you’re drowning in tabs and want somewhere to park them.
Speed Dial 2
300,000 users · 4.1★ (7.7K) · Free, with a Pro planThe classic speed dial, still going
Speed Dial 2 is the oldest idea here, executed properly: a page of thumbnails for your sites, arranged in groups, with a sync option so the same dial follows you between machines.
It has been around long enough to have accumulated the settings you would expect. Colours, sizes, columns, background, per-group organisation.
It also looks its age next to Bonjourr or Momentum, which for a lot of people is fine. It’s a tool, not a mood.
Best if you want a speed dial and aren’t interested in a mood board.
Tabliss
100,000 users · 4.7★ (387) · Free, no paid tier at allFree, open source, and it stays that way
Tabliss gives you a photo background, a clock, a greeting, a search box, a to-do list and a handful of other blocks, arranged in a fixed set of slots. It’s open source and it has no paid tier, not a limited free plan, no paid tier.
That matters more than it sounds. Every other extension on this list has something behind a wall, and Tabliss doesn’t, which makes it the honest recommendation for anyone tired of being upsold on their own new tab.
The cost is reach. Fewer blocks than the dashboards, and a layout you choose from rather than design.
Best if "free" should mean free, and a handful of good blocks is enough.
New Tab Studio
40,000 users · 4.9★ (1.4K) · Free, with PRO · our extensionA blank canvas and 35 widgets
Ours, so read this with the appropriate squint. By installs it’s the smallest thing on this list. Forty thousand against Momentum’s two million. By rating it shares the top with Bonjourr, though on far fewer votes.
The difference is the canvas. Everything else here gives you a layout and lets you fill it in; this gives you an empty page and thirty-five widgets that go wherever you drag them. Countdowns, clocks, task lists, habit trackers, notes, weather, a pomodoro timer, flash cards, a calendar, news, even chess puzzles. Nothing snaps to a grid.
Version 4.0 gave most of them a choice of ready-made designs, more than 130 in all, so a page can look put together before you touch a single colour. The interface now comes in ten languages.
It started as a countdown, which is still what most people install it for, exams, deadlines, the last day of term. Pages can be published as themes and installed by anyone in one click, which is also the fastest way to get started: take someone else’s page and change the dates.
Where it’s the wrong choice. Not the one to pick if you want to be up and running in ten seconds, or if what you actually want is a photo and a clock. A blank canvas is work, and Bonjourr will make you happier faster.
Best if you’ve a specific page in your head and every other extension is the wrong shape.
What the numbers do and don’t tell you
Momentum has fifty times our install count. That’s real, and it is mostly a story about being early and being recommended for a decade. Install counts measure reach, and reach compounds.
Ratings are the more interesting column, and the most misread. Bonjourr and New Tab Studio both sit at 4.9, but Bonjourr’s is across twenty-four thousand ratings and ours across fourteen hundred. Those aren’t the same 4.9, and anyone claiming otherwise, us included, is selling something.
The number that should actually decide it’s none of these. It is whether the page matches what you open a browser to do.
Before you install any of them
The new tab page is valuable real estate, and a minority of extensions treat it that way. Two checks, under a minute:
- Does it change your search engine? A new tab extension has no business touching what your address bar searches with. If the store listing mentions changing your default search, that’s what it’s for.
- What permissions does it want? Reading your history is reasonable for a widget that displays your history and strange for a wallpaper. The store lists them before you install.
Removing any of them is the same three clicks — here’s how, along with what Chrome can change on its own.
Curious about the canvas one? It’s free, needs no account, and comes off in three clicks.
Try New Tab StudioQuestions people ask
What are the best new tab extensions for Chrome?
There isn’t a single best one, because they solve different problems. Momentum suits a calm photo and one question a day, Bonjourr a beautiful minimal page, Infinity New Tab and Speed Dial 2 a grid of site icons, Toby a place to park tabs, Tabliss a free set of simple blocks, and New Tab Studio a page built from widgets.
What is a good alternative to Momentum?
Bonjourr and Tabliss are the closest free, open source alternatives to Momentum: a photo, the time and a few small blocks. If what you wanted from Momentum was room for more, several countdowns, tasks and a calendar on one page, a widget dashboard such as New Tab Studio fits better.
Are new tab extensions safe to install?
Most are, but this kind of extension sits on a page you open dozens of times a day, so it’s worth a minute of checking. Look for two red flags on the store page: an offer to change your default search, and permissions that don’t match the features. A wallpaper has no business reading your history.
User counts and ratings are taken from each extension’s Chrome Web Store listing and were last checked on 2026-09-11. They move; if something here looks stale, the store is the source of truth. Browse what New Tab Studio can put on a page if you want the detail on ours.