Best alternatives to Lucid (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Lucid, 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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Lucid alternatives, compared
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New tab page by start.me
Replace your New Tab Page with a personal dashboard.
≈100K users4.4★ from 1.4K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions- About 100× more users than Lucid
- Rated 0.3 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Simple Todo
Replace the newtab page with a simple todo list
≈2K users4.5★ from 20 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago2 permissions- About 2.0× more users than Lucid
- Rated 0.3 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
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Meow Meow Woof
Replace your new tab page with cat videos. No ads!
≈1K users5.0★ from 7 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago1 permissions- A similar number of users to Lucid
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Entertainment
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New Tab Clock
Replaces the New Tab page with a simple customizable clock.
≈10K users4.4★ from 188 ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions- About 10× more users than Lucid
- Rated 0.4 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
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Blank New Tab Page
Replaces the new tab page with a blank one.
149 users1.0★ from 1 ratingNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions- About 6.7× fewer users than Lucid
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Simple Tab
It's simple and replaces your current Chrome New Tab window with a feature packed New Tab
472 users3.7★ from 3 ratingsNot updated for 4+ yearsNo special permissions- About 2.1× fewer users than Lucid
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
- Listed under Tools
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Good Morning - New Tab by cloudHQ
Replace your boring new tab page with an inspirational personal dashboard!
≈9K users4.3★ from 87 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago8 permissions- About 9.0× more users than Lucid
- Rated 0.5 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 1)
- Listed under News & Weather
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Tab Lasso
Ted's in your corner with a Ted Lasso quote in every new tab.
≈1K users4.7★ from 3 ratingsNot updated for 3+ yearsNo special permissions- A similar number of users to Lucid
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 1)
- Listed under Just for Fun
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Calendar Clock - New Tab
the New Tab page with a simple clock With date and month.
422 users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 8 months ago1 permissions- About 2.4× fewer users than Lucid
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Entertainment
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Binary Tab
Replace the new tab page with a minimal binary clock
322 users4.8★ from 16 ratingsUpdated 13 months ago3 permissions- About 3.1× fewer users than Lucid
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
Lucid alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Lucid?
By users, the most popular alternative is New tab page by start.me with ≈100K users and a 4.4-star rating. The closest match by what it does is New tab page by start.me.
Which Lucid alternative has the best rating?
New tab page by start.me has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.4 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings.
Is there a Lucid alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
New Tab Clock asks for 0 permissions, against 1 for Lucid.
How many alternatives to Lucid are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Lucid 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.