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Best alternatives to Speed Dial & Widgets - WebCatalog New Tab (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Speed Dial & Widgets, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Speed Dial & Widgets - WebCatalog New Tab today

≈20K users4.7★ from 240 ratingsUpdated 9 days ago3 permissions

Speed Dial & Widgets alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Wallsflow New Tab: Live Wallpapers, Widgets & Focus Music

    Transform your New Tab into a calm, personalized space with live wallpapers, widgets, and ambient focus music.

    ≈400K users4.9★ from 6K ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago4 permissions
    • About 20× more users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  2. 2

    New Tab - Dream Afar: Wallpapers & Productivity Widgets

    Beautiful new tab with stunning wallpapers, productivity widgets, and AI access. Privacy-first, fully customizable.

    ≈50K users4.4★ from 1.6K ratingsUpdated 10 months ago3 permissions
    • About 2.5× more users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Rated 0.3 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  3. 3

    CW New Tab — Live Wallpapers & Widgets

    Turn every new tab into a live wallpaper with clock, weather, pomodoro, music player and sticky notes.

    ≈3K users4.9★ from 23 ratingsUpdated 6 days ago4 permissions
    • About 6.7× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Rated 0.2 stars higher
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  4. 4

    Tab Widgets - Custom New Tab Dashboard

    Your calendar, inbox, notes and a focus timer on every new tab, with wallpapers and pixel pets too. Free, no account needed.

    ≈2K users4.1★ from 18 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago10 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Asks for more permissions (10 vs 3)
  5. 5

    Easy Speed Dial

    Easy Speed Dial replaces the new tab page with a colorful grid of your bookmarks and folders.

    ≈3K users4.4★ from 34 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago3 permissions
    • About 6.7× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Rated 0.3 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
  6. 6

    SquarePage (legacy version - phasing out)

    Customize your Start Page and New Tab page with live backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets; like weather, wallpapers and much more!

    ≈6K users4.1★ from 36 ratingsUpdated 15 months ago1 permissions
    • About 3.3× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Rated 0.6 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
  7. 7

    Super Sports Car HD Wallpaper New Tab

    Customize new tab with the super sports car wallpaper extension and display car you admire in your background.

    ≈2K users5.0★ from 1 ratingUpdated 8 months ago1 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 3)
  8. 8

    Toyota Supra in Need For Speed Live Wallpaper

    Toyota Supra in Need For Speed Live Wallpaper - Live HD video wallpaper for your Chrome new tab.

    ≈2K users5.0★ from 1 ratingUpdated 5 days ago4 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
    • Listed under Just for Fun
  9. 9

    iTab New Tab

    iTab is a new personalized tab with free customized widgets: Calender, Weather, Breaking News, Wallpapers and so on.

    ≈300K users3.1★ from 866 ratingsUpdated 3 days ago8 permissions
    • About 15× more users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Rated 1.6 stars lower
    • Asks for more permissions (8 vs 3)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  10. 10

    Cat Tab HD

    Wallpapers with cute cats in a new tab.

    ≈60K usersNot rated yetNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions
    • About 3.0× more users than Speed Dial & Widgets
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
    • Listed under Just for Fun

Speed Dial & Widgets alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Speed Dial & Widgets?

By users, the most popular alternative is Wallsflow New Tab: Live Wallpapers, Widgets & Focus Music with ≈400K users and a 4.9-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Wallsflow New Tab: Live Wallpapers, Widgets & Focus Music.

Which Speed Dial & Widgets alternative has the best rating?

Wallsflow New Tab: Live Wallpapers, Widgets & Focus Music has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 6K ratings.

Is there a Speed Dial & Widgets alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

SquarePage (legacy version - phasing out) asks for 1 permissions, against 3 for Speed Dial & Widgets.

How many alternatives to Speed Dial & Widgets are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Speed Dial & Widgets 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.