Ambient New Tab – Live Wallpaper for Chrome

Live wallpaper for your new tab: scenes that follow your mouse and move to your music. 5 free themes, Pro unlocks 50+.

Ambient New Tab turns the blank page you see hundreds of times a day into live wallpaper: a scene rendered on your graphics card, moving with your mouse and, if you like, dancing to whatever music is playing in another tab. Nothing is a video. Every theme is generated live, so it doesn't loop. Made by a founder with ADHD who needed something calm to look at between tasks. TAKE A BREAK Every new tab is a few seconds to look away and let your mind wander. When you need longer, start a 5 to 60 minute break, and a soft chime tells you when it's time to get back to it. FREE, FOREVER Five themes are free with no time limit: a star field that drifts, links, and bends around your cursor; liquid marble you stir with the mouse; a neon grid rolling toward a low sun; soap bubbles with real iridescent color that sometimes cling together, drifting across a sky that follows your clock; and a cut-paper peg board that drops beads all day and lets you drop your own. PRO UNLOCKS EVERYTHING Pro is $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and you can cancel anytime. Or pay $59 once for Pro Forever, which never renews. Every new theme is included as it is released. Pro has 50 scenes, and they are very different from each other: a pixel rocket that rides the live Bitcoin price chart, a black hole ray-traced in real time, an impressionist garden pond painted from twenty thousand brushstrokes, a shimmering tinsel curtain you brush aside with your mouse to see what's behind it, eagle rays gliding over a tropical sand flat, a koi pond where a click drops food and the koi rise to eat, seals and a fluffy pup playing in Arctic shallows, and a typewriter by an open window that types a new letter to you, line by line. Some are little worlds made of blocks, like a busy office, a school cafeteria at lunch and a Saturday soccer match in the park. Some are games you can play right on the page, from a bubble shooter to a brick breaker. Others are built from physics and math, and more are added regularly. Pro also includes music sync: click once on the tab that's playing, and every scene reacts to the bass, the beat and the treble. DESKTOP WALLPAPERS (WINDOWS) Pro now also includes 27 desktop live wallpapers for Windows, from the black hole and the Monet pond to a Scottish loch, a lightning storm and the typewriter love letters. They run in the free Lively Wallpaper app or in Wallpaper Engine. Open the Themes panel and click Desktop wallpapers to get them. Hover any Pro theme in the Themes panel to try it full-screen before you buy. ALSO ON THE PAGE A clock and date; a search bar that uses whatever search engine you already chose in Chrome, with voice search, a camera button for image search and an AI Mode button; quick links to Gmail, Images and your favorite Google apps; shortcuts to your favorite sites; a break timer (5 to 60 minutes) that chimes when it's time to get back to it; calm sounds for many scenes (rain, water, wind, night insects); and day and night that follow your own sunrise and sunset, wherever you are (or force either). PRIVACY, PLAINLY No sign-up to use it. No ads. If you buy Pro, payment is handled by ExtensionPay and Stripe, and we only see that you're Pro. Your browsing and searches never pass through us. Anonymous usage stats (which themes and features get used) are off unless you say yes, and you can switch them off any time at the bottom of the Themes panel. Music sync analyses audio on your own computer and never records or sends it. Voice search listens only after you click the microphone; it uses Chrome's built-in speech recognition, and we never receive the audio. The AI Mode and camera buttons open Google in your browser, never through us. The only network request any theme makes is the Bitcoin theme fetching public prices from Coinbase, and only after you allow it. The Desktop wallpapers button sends your random purchase key to ambientnewtab.com once, only to confirm Pro and hand back a download link; the key isn't stored. Full policy: https://ambientnewtab.com/privacy Runs on your GPU with WebGL, pauses when the tab is hidden, and slows itself down on battery. On a slower computer it lowers its own detail and remembers what your computer can handle, even after updates. No graphics acceleration? Search, shortcuts and the break timer still work, and your theme shows as a still picture. Ambient New Tab is independent and not affiliated with Google. Made in Brooklyn. Questions: hello@ambientnewtab.com