No backend
100% local-first
No backend, no proxy, no cloud provider. Feeds are fetched, parsed and stored on your device. Your URLs and reading habits never leave your machine.
Local-first news on your New Tab
Your new tab,
your news.
A local-first RSS reader that replaces Chrome's New Tab. No backend, no proxy, no cloud — everything runs on your machine, and your data stays yours.
Free. Works in Google Chrome. On-device AI needs Chrome on desktop.
Your New Tab, previewed
Why it's different
Three things that set it apart
Not another tab. Not another reader. A private, local-first home for your news.
Real home page
Your New Tab, replaced
It replaces chrome://newtab natively — a real home page, not another browser tab. It opens instantly from local cache while fresh stories load in the background.
Private by design
On-device AI
Translate stories and summarize articles with Chrome's built-in AI. Translation and summaries run on your device — your reading never leaves it.
The magazine grid
Your news, laid out like a magazine
Stories group in blocks of five — one hero, three medium, one wide. No infinite list: every block reads like a spread, with the source, the time, and a badge when AI translated it.
The New Tab
Opens instantly, with everything in it
Clock, search, shortcuts and your stories — painted from local cache the moment you open a tab.
Zero seconds to paint
No network, no parsing on open: the page renders from local storage and refreshes quietly in the background.
Search up front
Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Startpage, Yandex — or your own engine with a custom template.
Shortcuts to your go-to sites
One-tap tiles for the sites you always open. Add them with the “+” tile, hide the rail whenever you want.
New stories, announced
A floating pill appears when fresh stories land while you read. One tap refreshes the flow and takes you back to the top.
On-device AIBeta
Translate and summarize, without leaving your machine
Chrome's built-in AI (Translator, Language Detector, Summarizer) runs locally. Nothing travels to a server.
Every story in your language
It detects each story’s language and translates title and description on the fly — a “Translated” badge marks it. The model downloads once per language pair.
The article in 30 seconds
Click the extension icon and the side panel summarizes the page in four formats: key points, TL;DR, teaser or headline.
Live modeLive
With Live on, the panel summarizes every story you navigate to — no clicks, and in your language when translation is on.
Full control
Your sources and settings, two drawers away
Everything is managed without leaving the tab: feeds by URL with per-source status, and one settings drawer for theme, language, AI, search and retention.
Feeds, your way
Add by URL or pick a suggestion. Each source shows its status, and only the domains you added are ever touched.
Settings without clutter
Theme, language, translation, summaries, search engine, retention and OPML backup — in one accessible drawer.
Your bookmarks
Your bookmarks, one keystroke away
Browse and search your Chrome bookmarks without leaving the tab — and only if you want to: the permission is optional and asked for on first use, never at install.
A drawer for your favorites
Your most recent bookmarks with their folder at a glance, and instant search across all of them. Read-only by design — for everything else, Chrome’s manager is one click away.
Right inside the search bar
Type and matching bookmarks appear under the bar, command-palette style. Arrow keys to pick, Enter to open — or just keep typing to search the web. Can be turned off in Settings.
Under the hood
Solid underneath
For the readers who want the technical details.
RSS 2.0, Atom and RDF parsed locally with fast-xml-parser.
A pool of 6 concurrent fetches, each with a timeout and per-feed backoff.
Conditional GET with ETag / Last-Modified — nothing downloads twice.
Refresh scheduled with chrome.alarms, independent of opening the tab.
Virtual scroll (CDK) — thousands of stories without jank.
Stable-hash dedup plus configurable retention per feed and by age.
Preferences in chrome.storage.sync; articles in IndexedDB, offline.
Manifest V3 with a strict CSP; AOT Angular build.
WCAG AA accessible, full i18n in 11 languages.
Permissions, explained
Every permission has a reason
Nothing is requested that isn't needed, and host access is per-origin — only the domains you add.
- storage — preferences and articles.
- alarms — scheduled background refresh.
- unlimitedStorage — keep many articles offline.
- sidePanel — the summary side panel.
- scripting + activeTab — capture an article on click, ephemeral.
- host_permissions (per-origin) — only the feeds you add.
Use cases
Made for the way you read
A few ways people use it.
Your home page, without the noise
A reader for your tech fanzine and personal brand — only the sources you choose.
Real privacy
No backend, no tracking. Your favorite URLs live on your machine.
Summaries in your language
Read any source in your language with on-device AI.
Read it in 30 seconds
The side panel tells the story in bullets.
Your browser, your style
Dark or light theme, shortcuts to your favorite sites.
Get started
Your New Tab, your news. Now.
Add it to Chrome and open a new tab. That’s the whole setup.
Free. No backend. No tracking. On-device AI needs Chrome on desktop.