Best alternatives to Awesome New Tab Page™ (2026)
8 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Awesome New Tab Page™, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Awesome New Tab Page™ alternatives, compared
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Empty New Tab Page
With this extension, new tabs display a blank page instead of the usual new tab page with thumbnails.
≈100K users4.4★ from 1.2K ratingsUpdated 24 months agoNo special permissions- A similar number of users to Awesome New Tab Page™
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 4)
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Embark - New Tab Page
A minimalistic new tab page.
≈20K users4.6★ from 258 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago1 permissions- About 4.5× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Rated 0.4 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 4)
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Empty New Tab Page
Replace the default new tab page with a blank page while retaining the default favicon. Supports dark mode.
≈3K users4.9★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 4 weeks agoNo special permissions- About 30× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 4)
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XPage New Tab
XPage just support Chinese for now, it will provide English version in the future.XPage is a free and powerful new tab.
≈8K users4.9★ from 156 ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago4 permissions- About 11× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Rated 0.6 stars higher
- Updated more recently
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Blank Dark New Tab Page
Empty New Tab Page shows a blank dark page
≈5K users4.8★ from 23 ratingsNot updated for 4+ yearsNo special permissions- About 18× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Rated 0.5 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 4)
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Panda New Tab
New Tab Dashboard & Widgets
≈40K users4.4★ from 776 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago1 permissions- About 2.3× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 4)
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iTab New Tab
iTab is a new personalized tab with free customized widgets: Calender, Weather, Breaking News, Wallpapers and so on.
≈300K users4.4★ from 856 ratingsUpdated 9 days ago8 permissions- About 3.3× more users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 4)
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Custom New Tab
Customize the New Tab URL. Change New Tab to point to any URL or local file you want.
≈50K users4.2★ from 42 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago1 permissions- About 1.8× fewer users than Awesome New Tab Page™
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 4)
Awesome New Tab Page™ alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Awesome New Tab Page™?
By users, the most popular alternative is iTab New Tab with ≈300K users and a 4.4-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Empty New Tab Page.
Which Awesome New Tab Page™ alternative has the best rating?
XPage New Tab has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 156 ratings.
Is there a Awesome New Tab Page™ alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Empty New Tab Page asks for 0 permissions, against 4 for Awesome New Tab Page™.
How many alternatives to Awesome New Tab Page™ are there?
We list 8 close alternatives to Awesome New Tab Page™ on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.