Kadaza: a visual start page and web directory

Kadaza is a start page: the page a browser opens to, or the page a new tab opens to once its own extension is installed. Founded in 2008, it works as a directory rather than a dashboard, grouping the most popular websites in around 38 topic categories, from News and Shopping to Career & Jobs and AI Chatbots (kadaza.com/about, read 2026-10-24). Each category page adds its own subcategory tabs. News, for instance, splits further into Archive, Business, Entertainment, Sports and Technology.

It suits someone who wants a single, uncluttered page of links to the sites they already use, organized for them, rather than a page of live data widgets. There is no sign-up. The homepage doubles as the product, so nothing needs to be installed to see what it offers. Its own FAQ page still lists "Should I register to use Kadaza?" among the questions it answers, which says something about how often people ask.

Kadaza also runs separate, localized copies of itself for dozens of countries, each on its own country-code domain (kadaza.de, kadaza.com.br, kadaza.co.uk, and many more), with local language and site selection (kadaza.com, read 2026-10-24). A companion section, Kadaza Tips, publishes seasonal shopping and lifestyle roundups such as gift guides, separate from the directory itself.

The homepage is a grid of category tiles you can rearrange, sitting over a customizable photo background. The About page describes drag-and-drop reordering and a background picker filterable by theme, such as nature, cities or animals (kadaza.com/about, read 2026-10-24). Every category page shows editor-picked links to the most visited sites in that topic, plus quick links to related categories added below the tiles.

Kadaza Powersearch sits in the search box on the homepage and shows matching results as you type, before you press enter, pulling from several major search engines arranged together in one box (kadaza.com/about, read 2026-10-24). A rotating "Site of the Day" feature highlights one site outside the regular categories.

What it does not have is any live, updating widget. There is no weather tile, no clock and no feed reader on the homepage itself; everything on the page is an editor-picked link or a background image, and the "live" parts of the experience (Powersearch results, the daily featured site) come from search or editorial picks rather than a widget pulling data from a service you connect.

The homepage links directly to instructions for making Kadaza your browser's homepage in one click. For a more permanent setup, Kadaza publishes its own extensions: one for Chrome (added May 2023), one for Firefox (added January 2024), and one for Microsoft Edge (added March 2024), each of which sets Kadaza as both the homepage and the new tab page once installed (kadaza.com/blog, read 2026-10-24). None of the three needs an account first.

Kadaza is free, with no plan, no paid tier and no pricing page found anywhere on the site. The footer on every page discloses that clicking through to certain merchants can earn Kadaza a commission, naming the eBay Partner Network and the Amazon Associates Program specifically. That is the only stated way a directory with no sign-up and no subscription supports itself.

The Chrome, Firefox and Edge extensions each set Kadaza as both your homepage and your new tab page at the same time, and none of the announcement posts describes a way to keep one without the other.

There is no live data anywhere on the page. If what you actually want is a start page with a weather tile, a clock or an RSS feed, Kadaza's category-tile model does not do that; it is a directory of links, not a widget board, and adding any of those means picking a different product entirely.

It is closed source and there is no way to inspect or self-host it. Everything runs on Kadaza's own servers, across the dozens of country domains it operates, and there is no visibility into how those separate country versions are kept in sync with each other.