Best alternatives to Simple New Tab (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Simple 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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Simple Tab Sorter
Simple tab sorter that allows user-defined tab group order.
≈10K users4.5★ from 27 ratingsUpdated 17 months ago3 permissions- About 3.3× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (3 vs 0)
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Simple Todo
Replace the newtab page with a simple todo list
≈2K users4.5★ from 20 ratingsUpdated 20 months ago2 permissions- About 1.5× fewer users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (2 vs 0)
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Embark - New Tab Page
A minimalistic new tab page.
≈20K users4.6★ from 258 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago1 permissions- About 6.7× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Simple Tab Renamer
A simple chrome tab renamer extension
≈10K users3.5★ from 80 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago1 permissions- About 3.3× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Zen tab: Beautiful, simple new tab
Change your default new tab for a new one with widgets and landscapes based on your local weather. Simple, beautiful, useful.
≈10K users3.5★ from 257 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years11 permissions- About 3.3× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (11 vs 0)
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New Tab
Create a blank new tab without any existing content.
≈3K users4.3★ from 3 ratingsNot updated for 4+ yearsNo special permissions- A similar number of users to Simple New Tab
- Updated less recently
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Simple Web Scraper (Free)
Scraping the values of multiple web page META tags, JS variables, etc. at once.
≈2K users3.7★ from 3 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years6 permissions- About 1.5× fewer users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 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 Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
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Tree Style Tab
A tree style tab navigator
≈30K users3.7★ from 93 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago6 permissions- About 10× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 0)
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Simple Notepad
Make notes and sync them. What could be more simple?
≈9K users4.0★ from 211 ratingsUpdated 14 months ago1 permissions- About 3.0× more users than Simple New Tab
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (1 vs 0)
Simple New Tab alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Simple New Tab?
By users, the most popular alternative is Tab-Snap with ≈30K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Simple Tab Sorter.
Which Simple New Tab alternative has the best rating?
Embark - New Tab Page has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.6 out of 5 from 258 ratings.
How many alternatives to Simple New Tab are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Simple 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.