Best new tab dashboards for Chrome and Firefox

Every entry below except Renewed Tab, whose last store release came out on May 11, 2025, has shipped a real update within the last year. Every one has a free plan you can actually use rather than a locked demo, and was checked directly against its own site or store listing on 2026-09-29. DashSuey goes first because it sponsors this list, labeled as such below; sponsorship never changes which products made the list, only where DashSuey sits in it.

After DashSuey, the order runs roughly from the longest track record in this exact space to the newest. Momentum has been running since 2013, and two other entries here measure themselves against it directly: Bonjourr's own listing calls itself "a modern alternative to extensions like Momentum and Tabliss," and Start Page HQ runs its own comparison pages naming Momentum. Bonjourr comes next, open source and named one of Chrome's own Favorites in 2023. Tab Widgets follows: the same Chrome extension has run under three names, going back to a dedicated Philips Hue light-control new tab. PresentBoard ships a steady seasonal update but has no comparable history to point to. Start Page HQ is the newest of the five, still filling out its widget catalog.

Two more names appear after those five: Anori and Renewed Tab. Both are here because they do something most of the list doesn't: they're open source and confirmed live on Firefox as well as Chrome today.

Momentum turns your new tab into a single focus screen: a daily goal, a to-do list, a photo background that changes each day, and a short weather forecast, with an AI panel and deeper task-manager integrations (Asana, Trello, Google Tasks and others) reserved for the paid tier. It has been running since 2013, longer than anything else on this list, and by its own account it works on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and other Chromium browsers, with a separate app for iOS.

The free plan costs nothing and needs no card. Momentum Plus is $39.95 a year and adds Focus Mode with a site blocker and Pomodoro timer, world clocks, custom to-do lists with color labels, notes, tab groups and priority support.

Bonjourr goes the other way: it's deliberately minimal, with a rotating photo background, quick links, a search bar, notes with markdown, a Pomodoro timer and a weather widget, and not much pretending to be a full dashboard. It's open source under GPL-3.0, made by two independent developers rather than a company, needs no account of any kind, and is available in 43 languages. It was named one of Chrome's own Favorites for 2023.

It runs on Chrome, Firefox and Edge; a Safari version exists too, though its own site notes it's being pulled from the App Store over maintenance cost, so it's fading out there even as the other three keep going. Bonjourr is entirely free. There's no paid tier to compare it against.

Tab Widgets is the widest single library on this list: about 70 widgets spanning productivity (notes, to-dos, a countdown timer, a Pomodoro timer), AI chat panels for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others, market data (live charts, a stock ticker), media (a Spotify mini-player, Steam), and even smart home control, including Philips Hue lighting and a Sony Bravia TV remote. That smart home angle traces back to its own history: the same Chrome extension has run under three names in a row, starting years ago as a dedicated Philips Hue light-control new tab, then New Tab Widgets, now simply Tab Widgets.

The free plan is not a trial: it caps you at 10 widgets across up to 3 pages, with no time limit and no account needed. Pro removes that cap and adds unlimited pages, premium widgets like Gmail, Google Calendar and Spotify, custom CSS and cloud sync, at $3.75 a month billed as $44.99 a year, or $4.99 a month paid monthly; a one-time lifetime option costs $179.99 and is open to its first 20 buyers only. As of today it's Chrome only. A search of Mozilla's own Firefox Add-ons store for it turns up nothing, so if you live in Firefox, look at Momentum, Bonjourr or Start Page HQ instead.

PresentBoard covers more than 20 widgets and 30-plus themes: a calendar, stock prices and KPI graphs, custom data widgets that read JSON or CSV feeds, embedded websites, and integrations with Google Calendar, Google Photos and Google Analytics. It also runs a combined search bar that queries Google, ChatGPT and Gemini at once. Its Chrome Web Store listing shows a shipped update every season through 2025 and into 2026, so it's actively kept up.

The free "Starter" plan is free forever and includes the full core widget library plus cloud backup across devices. The paid "Power User" plan is $2.99 a month billed monthly, or billed annually for 33 percent less, and adds unlimited dashboards and widgets, ad removal, premium features like an AI chatbot and premium data sources, and faster refresh rates. Like Tab Widgets, it's Chrome only: a search of Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons store for "presentboard" returns no results as of today.

Start Page HQ has the biggest widget catalog of the group on paper, spanning feeds, tasks, developer tools and AI panels across 63 widget types. Signing up costs nothing, and by its own account the free plan gets you one page, up to 8 widgets on it, and access to 55 of those 63 widget types, synced across every device you sign into. Paid plans lift those caps: Premium is $3.99 a month, $25 a year, or a $49 one-time lifetime purchase.

It's the only one of these confirmed to run on all three of Chrome, Firefox and Safari, with the browser extension as the main way to use it and a plain web-app version for any other browser. It's also the newest product in this list: its own blog's most recent post is from August 2026, and its pricing page states real numbers rather than leaving them blank.

Both of these are open source, both are confirmed live on Firefox's own Add-ons store as well as the Chrome Web Store today, and both are entirely free.

Anori ships 12 built-in widgets (bookmarks, notes, tasks, weather, world time, a calculator, Anki flashcards and more), groups them into folders when one screen isn't enough, and only asks for a permission when you add a widget that actually needs it. It's licensed AGPL-3.0, and its own site runs comparison pages against Momentum and Infinity New Tab, which says something about who it considers its competition.

Renewed Tab has the longer widget list of the two: RSS and Atom feeds, weather, a to-do list, quick links, bookmarks, daily goals, quotes, a clock, notes, currency rates, upcoming space launches and more, all on a grid you resize and rearrange. It's GPL-3.0, its interface has been translated into ten languages by its own community, and it works the same whether you install it or just try it in a browser tab first.

Every price, plan limit and browser claim above was checked directly against each product's own site, store listing or Firefox Add-ons page on 2026-09-29. Pricing pages change, free tiers get squeezed, and browser support gets added or dropped, so if you're reading this well after that date and something here looks off, check it again before you install anything.