Best Homepage Ever

Best Homepage Ever is a free browser homepage built around shortcuts you add yourself, sorted into categories such as Shop, Sports, For Me, Fun and Tools from a blue "Add Websites" button (its own guide, read 2026-09-29). The default page also shows a clock and a search bar labeled "Ask ChatGPT" next to the ordinary search box (besthomepageever.com, read 2026-09-29). None of that needs an account.

It's run by one person as a for-profit site. Its disclosures page is written in the first person, "I use Microsoft Clarity to track user interactions on the homepage," "I am an Amazon Associates Affiliate," rather than naming a company (besthomepageever.com/disclosures, read 2026-09-29). It suits someone who wants a link launcher with a handful of built-in tools bundled in, rather than a wide grid of live widgets or a homelab status board; if that's the goal, a widget-first product like Protopage or a self-hosted dashboard is the closer fit.

Categories organize the shortcuts you add, and a toolbar sorts them further (guide, read 2026-09-29). Beyond the shortcut grid, the top navigation adds Snippets, Notes, Planner and Daily Brief tabs, and the footer links to internet tools, office documents, Google's own sites, a travel section, a shopping section and a page of live financial figures (besthomepageever.com; guide, both read 2026-09-29).

Backgrounds can be animated, and beyond the built-in image library, the site's own AI background creator generates new ones on request (guide, read 2026-09-29). Local weather for a place you set, and saved "My Places," come with a free account (besthomepageever.com, read 2026-09-29).

Three optional browser extensions, Portal, Pindrop and Tab Page, add ways to save recipes, websites, articles and videos to the homepage from wherever you're browsing, according to the site's own guide (guide, read 2026-09-29).

Open besthomepageever.com. There's nothing to install and nothing to sign up for; the categories, clock and shortcuts all work right away. To make it your browser's actual homepage, the site's own guide gives the settings path for each browser: in Chrome, open Settings from the three-dot menu, choose On startup, then Open a specific page or set of pages, and add the address; in Firefox, open Settings from the hamburger menu, choose Home, and set Homepage and new windows to a custom URL (guide, read 2026-09-29). Signing up for a free account is optional and only needed for local weather and saved places.

Best Homepage Ever is free. There's no plan, no checkout and no paid tier anywhere on the site or in its Terms of Use. The only optional step is a free account, and that unlocks two specific things, local weather and saved "My Places," rather than sitting behind a wider paywall (besthomepageever.com; terms, both read 2026-09-29).

"Ad-free" is true in the narrow sense that there are no display ad units on the page, but the site isn't free of commercial interest. Its disclosures page states it participates in the Amazon Associates and eBay Partner Network affiliate programs and can "accept advertising compensation from companies that appear on Best Homepage Ever," and it uses Microsoft Clarity to record how visitors use the site (disclosures, read 2026-09-29).

It's closed source, and its Terms of Use grant only permission "to temporarily download one copy of the materials... for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing," explicitly forbidding reverse engineering or redistribution (terms, read 2026-09-29). There's no way to self-host it or audit what it does.

It's run by one person rather than a company; the site names no legal entity anywhere in its disclosures or terms, and support runs through the site's own Help page rather than a company support desk.