Homebase
A calmer new tab. A clock in the font you want, your links and tasks exactly where you put them, and a fresh photo behind it all — with everything stored on your own machine.
What it does
Everything on the page is yours to move or switch off
Widgets in any corner
Links, weather, tasks, a timer, notes and countdowns. Drag a widget by its heading into any of the four corners — several can share one and stack in the order you drop them.
A clock you actually chose
Seventeen typefaces plus a box to type any font you have installed. Size, weight, letter spacing and colour are sliders. 12- or 24-hour, with seconds and date optional.
Tasks that stay out of the way
As many lists as you like, with due dates, times and colours. Drag to reorder or move between lists. Completed tasks hide themselves and clear out on a schedule you set.
Search that looks inward first
Start typing and you get your own tasks, links and recent searches — all from your own device. Tick a task off straight from the results. Enter searches with your browser's own engine; Homebase never changes it.
A new photo every day
Pick categories and every photo comes from one of them, drawn from Openverse's openly licensed library — no account or API key. Or use your own image, a gradient, or a solid colour.
A timer that means it
Pomodoro or a plain stopwatch, set to any number of minutes, with a ring that fills as the session runs and a chime when it flips to a break.
Focus mode
One click clears everything from the edges and leaves just the clock. One click brings it all back.
Legible over any photo
Dim, blur, a screen vignette and a soft shade behind each panel keep text readable no matter how busy the wallpaper gets.
Your data
It stays on your computer
No account, no server, no analytics
Your settings, links, tasks, notes and countdowns live in your browser's local storage and are never transmitted anywhere. Homebase doesn't ask for your location permission and never reads the pages you visit. The only requests it makes are to the weather, photo and search-suggestion services for features you've switched on — and each one can be turned off. You can export everything to a file, or erase it, at any time. Read the full policy →
Getting it
Installing Homebase
Chrome
- Install from the Chrome Web Store (listing coming soon).
- Open a new tab — that's it.
Chrome adopts the new tab page automatically. You can switch back at any time by disabling or removing the extension.
Safari
- Install the Homebase app.
- Safari → Settings → Extensions → tick Homebase.
- Safari → Settings → General → set New tabs open with: Homebase.
That last step is the one people miss. Safari supports new-tab overrides but never adopts one on its own.
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