HearthUI — New Tab Home Screen Widgets

Turn every new tab into a home screen: arrange widgets, a dock and wallpapers into a space that's yours. Local-first.

🏠 HearthUI turns your new tab into a personal home screen. Arrange widgets however you like, keep your favorite sites close in a magnifying dock, choose a wallpaper that feels alive, and open your browser to a space that feels like your own. ✨ Widgets for the things you actually use 🕰 Clock - choose from digital, flip, analogue, and glass styles ⛅ Weather - check forecasts and air quality for multiple saved cities 📝 Notes - write in Markdown, create checklists, and keep notes organized with Archive and Trash 🍅 Pomodoro - stay focused with timed work sessions and breaks 🗂 App Grid - organize your favorite websites into folders and categories ▶️ Media - see what is playing in another tab and control it without switching away 📐 Every widget adapts to its size Widgets are not simply stretched when you resize them. Each size, from 1×1 to 6×6, has its own layout. A small widget stays focused and simple. Give it more room, and it can show additional details, controls, or lists. 🎨 Make it feel like yours 🧲 Free Grid - drag, resize, and arrange everything freely 🪟 Spaces - create separate screens for work, home, or anything else 🚀 Dock - macOS-style magnification, dividers, and drag-to-reorder 🖼 Wallpapers - use your own images or choose an animated WebGL background 🌗 Day and Night - smoothly shift your wallpaper between daytime and darker evening looks 💎 Liquid Glass style - widget edges subtly refract the wallpaper beneath them, while Transparent, Solid, and Gradient fills give you simpler alternatives 🎭 Themes - save your layout, wallpaper, and accent color together ♿ Accessibility - light and dark widget text, wallpaper tinting, and reduced-motion support 🔒 Private by design HearthUI does not require an account. There is no sign-in, and there is no HearthUI server storing your information. Your notes, bookmarks, settings, and layouts stay in your browser’s local storage and remain on your device. Saved Clock themes use Chrome’s extension sync storage, allowing them to follow your signed-in Chrome profile. 🔑 Permissions HearthUI’s core permissions cover: - Local data and settings - Weather location - Website icons used in the Dock Location access is used only by the Weather widget to identify your current city, and only after you allow it. The `tabs` and `scripting` permissions are optional. HearthUI requests them only if you enable playback controls for the Media widget. They allow the extension to identify the currently playing tab and send play, pause, or skip commands. If you do not use this feature, these permissions are never requested. 🚫 HearthUI does not use remote code. Everything it runs is packaged directly inside the extension. 🌍 The interface is available in English only in this version. 📌 What’s new Version 1.0.1 - August 27, 2026 - Added the Half Dome, Astronaut, and Green themes - Fixed several bugs - Improved stability and loading speed Version 1.1.0 - August 30, 2026 - Added Pomodoro and Media widgets - Added playback controls for YouTube, Spotify, and other supported media services - Fixed themes displaying incorrectly - Improved the reliability of theme saving - Added a Pantone-inspired Color Swatch style for Pin notes, with an accent color that adapts to the wallpaper - Improved reduced-motion support throughout the interface Version 1.2.0 - September 16, 2026 - Introduced a new default glass appearance with Pro controls for rims, highlights, dispersion, and material - Added Transparent, Solid, and Gradient widget fills - Added a spatial right-click menu for widgets - Added the ability to move widgets between Spaces - Added a frosted Dock - Added a Day and Night control that smoothly transitions wallpapers between light and dark appearances - Redesigned the widget picker, note editor, and dialogs around one consistent glass design language - Combined the top-right controls into a single capsule - Fixed themes and profiles losing glass settings - Fixed Weather not refreshing after selecting a city - Fixed Notes occasionally losing formatting Version 1.3.0 - September 27, 2026 - Added a wallpaper library with 45 wallpapers across four collections, a home shelf, a full-screen viewer, and support for your own photos - Added a Timer widget with editable favorite durations - Added search and sorting to the App Grid - Added smoother widget dragging and resizing, animated App Grid rearrangement, and wallpaper transitions between Spaces - Unified the look of menus, dialogs, popovers, notifications, settings panels, and text fields - Changed launcher links to open in the current tab - Fixed deleting the active Space so the remaining Spaces keep their content