Tabliss is a new tab page people recommend for good reasons. It has also gone a long time without a release, which is why some of its users go looking for a Tabliss alternative. Here are the dates, five new tab pages to move to, and the case for not moving at all.
What people like about Tabliss
Tabliss puts a photo from Unsplash, a Giphy animation or your own picture behind widgets you choose: the time as a clock or a quote from literature, the weather, a to-do list, notes, quick links and custom CSS. Its site says it is 100% free, with no subscriptions and no adverts, and the code is public. Its store listing says it needs no permissions, and its privacy policy says settings stay in your browser and error reports are all it collects. It is made for Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Chrome's store shows 4.7 from 386 ratings and about 100,000 users; Firefox's shows 4.6 from 2,444 reviews and Mozilla's Recommended badge.
Why some look for a Tabliss alternative
The reason is dates, and anyone can check them. The Chrome and Firefox listings both show version 2.6.0, last updated on 25 April 2022. The newest commit in the project's public repository is from 16 January 2024. None of those pages says why, or what is planned, so we will not guess. The repository has not been archived, and both stores still offer the extension.
How we picked
First place goes on the reason Backs exists: how much of the page is yours to arrange. The other four are ordered by how close they sit to Tabliss: what the page is (a photo, a clock, a few widgets), then the terms (free in full, public code, no account), then the evidence (ratings and the last update). So Bonjourr sits ahead of TablissNG, which is Tabliss's own code but has 27 Chrome ratings to Bonjourr's 24,100. If you run Tabliss in Firefox or Edge, skip number one: Backs is for Chrome on a computer.
Five alternatives, ranked
Backs
Free, Premium €3.99 a month or €39.99 a yearOurs, and the one we would choose. You drag each Backon (tasks, notes, a Pomodoro timer, a clock, weather, bookmarks, search) where you want it and resize it, and its colours come from your background.
Bonjourr
Free, donations welcomeThe nearest open source equivalent; its own listing calls it an alternative to Tabliss. Photos and video that change through the day, a clock, quick links, notes, weather, quotes and a Pomodoro timer.
TablissNG
FreeTabliss itself, carried on: a fork of the original code under the same licence, whose maintainer says the contributions left waiting were merged and work continues. Version 1.8.0 reached Chrome on 20 September 2026.
Mue
FreeAnother open source new tab built around a picture: its own photo library or your images, quotes, notes, quick links, weather and greetings, plus a marketplace of packs made by other users.
Momentum
Free, Plus $39.95 a yearThe page Tabliss measures itself against: the Tabliss listing calls itself a free alternative to Momentum. A daily photo, mantra and quote, a to-do list, shortcuts, weather and search, with two million Chrome users.
Side by side
Tabliss is the first row, for reference. Ratings and dates are those on each Chrome Web Store listing on 21 September 2026. None found means the maker's listing and site do not mention public code.
| Extension | Price | Open source | Browsers | Chrome rating | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabliss | Free | Yes | Firefox, Chrome, Edge, web | 4.7 from 386 | April 2022 |
| Backs | Free, Premium €3.99 a month | No | Chrome | 4.7 from 3 | September 2026 |
| Bonjourr | Free, donations welcome | Yes | Firefox, Chrome, Edge, web | 4.9 from 24.1K | July 2026 |
| TablissNG | Free | Yes | Firefox, Chrome, Edge | 4.8 from 27 | September 2026 |
| Mue | Free | Yes | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Whale | 4.5 from 25 | January 2026 |
| Momentum | Free, Plus $39.95 a year | None found | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari | 4.5 from 13.7K | September 2026 |
Should you move?
Not necessarily. Staying is fine if Tabliss does what you want today and the age of its last release does not trouble you. It is still in the Chrome and Firefox stores, it is free, its listing says it needs no permissions, and its settings live in your browser. Nothing we read says any of that has changed.
Moving makes sense if you want fixes and new widgets to keep arriving, or if something has stopped working and no release has come to mend it. Then it depends on what you want to keep.
- The same page, kept up. TablissNG.
- The same terms, with a long record. Bonjourr.
- To place everything yourself, in Chrome. Backs.
- Photo and quote packs made by other users. Mue.
- A company behind it and links to your task manager, for a yearly fee. Momentum.
Questions and answers
- Is Tabliss still maintained?
- Its own pages do not say. They show a last release in April 2022 and a newest commit from 16 January 2024, while the repository has not been archived and both stores still offer the extension. The TablissNG listing calls the original no longer maintained, but that is the fork's description; none of Tabliss's own pages says it.
- Is Tabliss safe to keep using?
- We can report what first-party pages say and no more: nobody here has examined its code. The Chrome listing says Tabliss needs no permissions, declares that the developer will not collect or use your data, and shows a publisher with no history of violations. The privacy policy says settings are saved in your browser and error reports are all it collects. None of those pages says anything about security since the last release, in either direction, and neither do we.
- Is there an open source alternative to Tabliss?
- Three of the five here publish their code: Bonjourr, TablissNG and Mue. Bonjourr and TablissNG use the same licence as Tabliss, and TablissNG is a fork of Tabliss's own code. Backs is not open source, and we found no public code for Momentum.
- Can I keep my Tabliss settings if I move?
- No first-party page we read explains how to carry Tabliss settings into another extension. TablissNG documents Export and Import buttons that save and load its own setup as a file, but its guide does not say whether a file from the original Tabliss will load. Otherwise expect to set up again, and copy your notes, to-dos and quick links somewhere before you remove Tabliss.
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