Best alternatives to New Tab (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to New Tab, 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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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 100× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 0)
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MSN New Tab
Add the MSN New Tab for quick access to the latest news, your most visited sites, web search and more.
≈500K users3.9★ from 199 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago5 permissions- About 167× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 0)
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TabiTab
The most useful Newtab in the world!
≈2K users3.7★ from 9 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years5 permissions- About 1.5× fewer users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 0)
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Tab for Google Tasks
Opens Google Tasks in a new tab. Light and Fast!
≈1K users3.0★ from 2 ratings1 permissions- About 3.0× fewer users than New Tab
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Tab-Snap
Get open tab URLs for window, or load a list of URLs into new tabs on this window.
≈30K users4.5★ from 125 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years1 permissions- About 10× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Chrome Apps Tab
New tab shows your Google Chrome apps.
≈10K usersNot rated yetUpdated 21 months ago1 permissions- About 3.3× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Mute Tab
Convenient and fast to 'Mute Tab'
≈1K users5.0★ from 8 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years3 permissions- About 3.0× fewer users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 0)
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Mute Tab
Restores the 'Mute Tab' functionality of versions prior to Chrome 71.
≈300K users4.3★ from 190 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions- About 100× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 0)
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Todo Tab
A privacy-first todo list
≈5K users4.4★ from 45 ratingsNot updated for 5+ yearsNo special permissions- About 1.7× more users than New Tab
- Updated less recently
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Tab Copy
Quickly copy tabs to the clipboard in a variety of formats
≈100K users4.7★ from 663 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago5 permissions- About 33× more users than New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 0)
New Tab alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to New Tab?
By users, the most popular alternative is MSN New Tab with ≈500K users and a 3.9-star rating. The closest match by what it does is iTab New Tab.
Which New Tab alternative has the best rating?
Tab Copy has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.7 out of 5 from 663 ratings.
How many alternatives to New Tab are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to New Tab 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.