Startpage is a highly customizable utility that transforms your new tab page into a sleek, feature-rich, and modern interface. All data is stored locally — no account needed, no tracking.
Key Features:
Images & Backgrounds
- Over 57 dynamic & WebGL effects: Character rain, falling petals, HD snowfall, auroras, interactive liquid simulation, frosted glass globe, 3D neon grid, and many more effects.
- Diverse backgrounds: Supports solid colors, gradients, personal photo uploads (via URL/upload file), and looped silent videos (MP4/WebM).
- High-quality wallpaper collection: Automatically downloads high-resolution wallpapers by theme and quickly saves them to a personal collection.
- Integrated art photo library: Easily search and apply high-quality landscape images with a dedicated API key.
- SVG wave generator: Design and save unique custom wavy vector layers.
Productivity Toolkit
- Smart search: Quickly switch between multiple popular search engines, source code lookup pages, and AI assistants, complete with live suggestions and image search.
- Bookmark management: Organize bookmarks into visually grouped tabs with unique colors, auto-fetch favicons, and support importing bookmarks from the browser by folder.
- Notes & Tasks: To-do lists and a notepad that supports text formatting with a flexible resizable popup window.
- Habit tracking: Build a daily habit chain along with a visual progress tracking chart.
- Advanced calendar: Comprehensive monthly calendar supports event management, displays the lunar calendar, and automatically recognizes holidays.
- Timer & Alarm: Smart countdown timer automatically recognizes fast input times and maintains state when the page is reloaded.
- Weather forecast: Real-time weather updates from open data, supports geolocation, and checks network connectivity.
- Quotes & RSS feed: Inspirational quotes daily along with a lightweight multi-channel RSS news reader.
Audio & Music
- Global media controller: Control play/pause and skip tracks on tabs playing music or video directly from the New Tab page.
- Music visualization effects: Spinning vinyl, pixel audio equalizer, and sound waves responding live to melodies.
- Ambient sounds: 12 natural sounds and white noise (rain, ocean waves, café, campfire...) with a multi-channel mixer and timer.
Deep interface customization
- Over 14 clock styles: Frosted glass 3D block clock, classic flip clock, analog hands, pixel HUD, and smooth glass effects at 60 FPS.
- Free widget arrangement: Move freely, align to grid, lock positions or hide any widget.
- Glassmorphism effects: Premium frosted border design style synchronized across all components.
- Color & Font management: Use system fonts or web fonts, automatically extract the dominant color palette from the background.
Privacy & Performance
- Completely local storage: Data (notes, tasks, bookmarks) is stored locally on your device via IndexedDB & LocalStorage.
- Super fast speed: Built entirely with pure Vanilla JavaScript, starts almost instantly.
- Backup & Restore: Easily export and import the entire personal configuration as a JSON file.
Open source:
https://github.com/ChickenSoup269/Zero-Start-Page
More details: https://extension-changelogs.vercel.app/about
Security & Privacy:
- Absolutely no collection or transmission of personal data outside.
- All operations are processed right within the browser.
- Does not contain tracking code or user analytics.
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