PresentBoard: a new tab dashboard for live data widgets

PresentBoard is a Chrome new tab extension made by NU MEDIA s.r.o, a developer based in Slovakia going by the site's own governing-law clause (terms-of-service, read 2026-10-24). Rather than one fixed layout, it gives you a grid of widgets you place and resize yourself, with a public gallery of cloneable example dashboards (calendars, coffee-shop themes, a financial layout, a world-news layout) to start from instead of a blank page (presentboard.app, read 2026-10-24).

Its own pitch leans on reach across devices: "Works on mobile, tablet, PC, and even Smart TVs" (presentboard.app/dashboard-app, read 2026-10-24). That claim is about the dashboard's responsive layout, not a native app. The product itself installs only as a Chrome extension, so on a tablet, phone or TV you'd be opening the same web dashboard in a browser rather than replacing that device's own new tab.

The audience is someone who wants their new tab to do more than show a photo and a to-do list. Widgets can pull from live public data (a financial chart, an embedded video) or a person's own private data (a synced calendar, a spreadsheet rendered as a chart or table, a Google Analytics summary), which is a wider remit than most new tab extensions in this category attempt.

The widgets page lists 24 widgets: Date & Time, Weather, Bookmarks & Top Sites, Calendar & Agenda, Search box, Note & Checklist, News & RSS, Countdown, Quotes, Stocks, Photos & Videos, AI Chatbot, Calculator, Network check, Pomodoro Timer, Embed HTML, Chart (CSV, JSON or Finance data), Data Table, Data Aggregate, Dashboard Launcher, Greeting, Google Analytics, Agenda and Yearly Calendar (presentboard.app/widgets, read 2026-10-24). The Chart, Data Table and Data Aggregate widgets are the more unusual entries: they read a person's own CSV, JSON or XML feed, or aggregate a spreadsheet into one summary number, rather than only showing pre-built data types.

Layout options go beyond a plain grid. A changelog entry for version 2.1.0 added Base Designs (Default, Glassmorphism and Ink & Paper for everyone, plus Neon, Matrix and Retro for Power User) along with custom fonts and full color overrides, and version 2.1.4 added a Calculator widget with a pinned-history mode and a Pomodoro widget that keeps its timer running across dashboard switches (presentboard.app/widgets, read 2026-10-24). Feature requests are handled through a public roadmap: anyone can upvote a request, and the entry with the most votes is picked for development roughly every six weeks.

Add PresentBoard from the Chrome Web Store. The listing states it needs only the "replace new tab" permission, and Starter works without creating an account (chromewebstore.google.com, read 2026-10-24). Signing in later is what turns on cloud backup, so a dashboard survives a browser reset or carries over to another computer.

Starter is free forever and includes the full core widget library plus cloud backup that syncs dashboards across devices. Power User is $2.99 a month billed monthly, and unlocks every widget and power feature: unlimited dashboards and widgets, no ads, the AI Chatbot and Custom Quotes widgets, premium API access, faster data refresh, and 50 monthly votes on the public roadmap instead of Starter's smaller allotment. The pricing page also shows a toggle for annual billing advertised as a 33% saving over the monthly rate, but does not state the resulting annual total anywhere on the page (presentboard.app/pricing, read 2026-10-24).

It ships only as a Chrome extension. No Firefox, Edge or Safari listing turned up in this check, which rules it out for anyone not using Chrome as their main browser.

The user base is small next to the category's bigger names: 10,000 Chrome users and 43 ratings at a 4.3 average, well under Momentum, Infinity New Tab or Bonjourr's few-hundred-thousand-user counts (chromewebstore.google.com, read 2026-10-24).

It's closed source, and the terms of service explicitly forbid decompiling, reverse engineering or redistributing the site's materials, with disputes governed by Slovakia's courts (terms-of-service, read 2026-10-24). The live-data features that set it apart, CSV and JSON feeds, Google Analytics, custom aggregation, take real setup effort. Someone who just wants a clock, a quote and a photo has simpler, calmer options elsewhere in this category.