Sparkly
Beautiful & Productive New Tab for the Chrome browser
What it does
Sparkly turns your Chrome new tab into a calm, focused workspace. Search the web, open tabs, and history with Universal Search. Organize links with Launchpad, discover developer news from Hacker News, GitHub, Dev.to, Reddit & Product Hunt, access Google apps, check weather, and personalize your tab with beautiful wallpapers. Free, privacy-first, no account, no ads, and no behavioral analytics.
Sparkly is a calm, focused Chrome new tab with universal search, quick links, open tabs, developer feeds, and beautiful backgrounds.
One beautiful place for search, shortcuts, open tabs, and the things you choose to see. Search, tabs, feeds, and backgrounds — the real product, start to finish. Sparkly keeps the everyday essentials visible and moves everything else to a quiet action rail. Your new tab feels useful without feeling busy. Search open tabs, recent history, and the web from any page. Stay on the keyboard and keep the thought moving. Open tabs, developer feeds, and personalization stay at the edge until you ask for them. Your preferences, Launchpad spaces, and customizations live in Chrome’s extension storage. Sparkly has no account system, ads, or behavioralfrom sparklytab.dev
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