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Start pages

A personalized start page is the page your browser opens to, set up with your own bookmarks, widgets and sometimes a search box, instead of a blank tab or a search engine's homepage. Searching the bare term "start page" mostly turns up Startpage.com, a private search engine with no connection to this category; if that is not what you meant, add a word like "personal" or a product name to your search instead.

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  7. MyKK

    Single HTML file start page with drag-drop widgets, offline storage and optional cloud sync.

    Type
    Self-hosted
    Price
    Free plan, paid upgrades
    Code
    Open source, MIT
    Runs on
    Web, Chrome, Edge, Safari

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Compare at a glance

NameTypePricingCodeRuns onLast checked
Abunch Hosted web app Free plan, paid upgrades Closed source Web, Chrome
Best Homepage Ever Hosted web app Free Closed source Web
CentPage Hosted web app Free plan, paid upgrades Closed source Chrome, Web
Kadaza Hosted web app Free Closed source Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Web
MyFav.es Hosted web app Free Closed source Web
MyKK Self-hosted Free plan, paid upgrades Open source, MIT Web, Chrome, Edge, Safari
Protopage Hosted web app Free Closed source Chrome, Web
start.me Hosted web app Free plan, paid upgrades Closed source Web, Chrome, Firefox, Edge
Symbaloo Hosted web app Free plan, paid upgrades Closed source Web, Chrome, Firefox, Edge

Who it suits

Anyone who wants their browser's home tab to do more than open a search box: a scannable list of links, live weather, maybe a note. It is the direct descendant of iGoogle, the customizable Google homepage Google shut down in 2013, and more than a decade later people still look for a replacement.

How to choose

The oldest and best-known options work the same broad way: a canvas of movable widgets you sign into and arrange yourself. Protopage and start.me both let you build private, shared or public pages; start.me's free tier caps you at a small number of pages and shows advertising, lifted on its paid Personal PRO plan. Symbaloo leans more toward a tile grid of bookmarks than live widgets, also free with ads unless you pay to remove them.

Simpler options exist too. Abunch is a bookmark organizer with no widgets by design. CentPage adds widgets on top of its directory, while Best Homepage Ever stays deliberately close to shortcuts, a live weather tile and a changing background, with no account required.

The real trade-off is how much you want built in. A widget-heavy start page takes longer to set up but can replace a few other tabs outright. A bookmark-first one loads faster and asks less of you, but does less. If what you actually want is a page that opens automatically on every new tab rather than one you navigate to, see new tab extensions instead. If your links already live on a self-hosted server, self-hosted and homelab dashboards cover much of the same ground.

Sponsored by DashSuey, made by the people who maintain this list. It is a widget board built to sign into rather than a bookmark page or a browser home tab setting.

Questions people ask

How do I find my homepage?

Check your browser's settings for its home page or new tab address; that setting is what a start page replaces, whether you build it from a widget-based product like Protopage or a bookmark-style page like Symbaloo.

What is the best iGoogle alternative?

Google retired iGoogle in 2013. start.me and Protopage both build a similar widget canvas, and neither is an exact clone.

Why was iGoogle discontinued?

Google retired iGoogle in November 2013 as part of a broader cleanup of underused products, without explaining the shutdown beyond that. No official successor exists, which is why more than a decade of replacement products has followed.

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