Tab Widgets: a 69-widget dashboard for your new tab

Tab Widgets turns the browser's new tab page into a dashboard built from 69 widgets, arranged in a grid or placed freely depending on the plan (tabwidgets.com/widgets, read 2026-09-29). It is designed, built and maintained by one indie developer in Australia, trading under NOIR APPS PTY LTD, with no team and no outside funding behind it (tabwidgets.com/about, read 2026-09-29).

The product has been renamed twice under the same Chrome extension ID (ejnndgifkmlldcdlifjaeanhjegoafcl). A Wayback Machine snapshot from March 19, 2023 shows the same ID listed as New tab for Hue, a Philips Hue light control extension. A later snapshot from July 1, 2025 shows it as New Tab Widgets. The developer's own blog post, dated June 28, 2026, announced the shorter name Tab Widgets, describing the product as having grown from "widgets for your browser's new tab page" into something closer to a personal command center (tabwidgets.com/blog, read 2026-09-29).

The current widget catalog still carries the Hue lineage forward: four dedicated Philips Hue widgets plus a combined link and scene widget sit alongside the newer AI, markets and productivity widgets.

It suits someone who wants a wide, mix-and-match set of tools on their new tab, from AI chat windows to a stock ticker to a Philips Hue light control, rather than a single fixed layout.

The free Starter widgets cover a lot of ground on their own: RSS-backed news feeds for outlets like the BBC, Reuters and the Guardian, a search bar, bookmarks, a Pomodoro timer, a countdown and timer widget, a currency and unit converter, Word of the Day, Quotes, a to-do list, sticky notes, CPU and memory monitors, and Steam game launching (tabwidgets.com/widgets, read 2026-09-29). The Hue widgets (Hue Group, Hue Group API V2, Hue Scene, Hue Scene API V2, and a combined Link and Hue Scene widget) and a Sony Bravia TV remote widget are also free, letting the extension double as a small smart home remote from inside the browser.

AI chat widgets embed ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek and Perplexity directly on the dashboard, and social and productivity apps (Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Maps) embed the same way, all on the free tier. The Pro tier gates a specific, named set of widgets instead of gating the whole product: Google Calendar, Google Drive, Gmail, an Image widget, RSS Feed, Spotify, and the two TradingView market widgets, plus features layered onto free widgets such as custom icons on Link Bookmarks, unlimited links per Link Group, and custom fonts on Sticky Notes (tabwidgets.com/pricing, read 2026-09-29).

Add it from the Chrome Web Store, then accept the browser's own prompt to keep it as the new tab page. No account or credit card is needed to start on the free Starter plan, capped at 10 widgets and 1 page. A web app version at app.tabwidgets.com offers the same dashboard from any browser tab without installing the extension at all.

Starter is free and needs no account: up to 10 widgets, 1 page, and the basic widget set and layouts. Pro removes both caps, unlocks the gated widgets listed above, and adds a free-placement layout mode, cloud sync across devices, per-page wallpapers and custom CSS. Pro costs $4.99 a month, or $44.99 billed annually, which works out to about $3.75 a month. A Lifetime plan bundles everything in Pro plus future widgets and updates for a one-time $179.99 payment, though the site limits it to the first 20 buyers. Checkout runs through Stripe, with cancellation any time and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the subscription plans (tabwidgets.com/pricing, read 2026-09-29).

Despite a version history reaching back to a 2024 beta under two earlier names, Tab Widgets' Chrome Web Store listing shows only 2,000 users, well behind Momentum's or Infinity New Tab's user counts in the same category.

The widget-tier split is more granular than a simple free-versus-paid switch. A handful of widgets (the Iframe widget, Link Bookmark, Link Group, Sticky Note and Launch Steam Game) work on the free tier but hide specific sub-features behind Pro, such as custom CSS injection on an iframe or a custom font on a sticky note, so it is worth checking the per-widget comparison table before assuming a widget is fully free.

It is a one-person project. The developer says so directly on the about page, and it cuts both ways: feedback reportedly reaches the person building the product directly, but there is no larger team behind support or continuity if that changes.

It ships on Chrome only. There is no Firefox or Edge listing referenced anywhere on the site, so the web app at app.tabwidgets.com is the only route for anyone on a different browser.