Sparkly – Beautiful & Productive New Tab
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A productive new tab with beautiful wallpapers, smart search, quick links and news feeds.
Sparkly turns every new tab into a calm, beautiful workspace for search, quick access, and discovery.
Search the web, find open tabs, launch your favorite sites, explore developer news, and personalize your workspace — without a crowded dashboard or complicated setup.
🔎 SMART SEARCH
• Search with your favorite search engines, with your browser's default used automatically
• Get helpful suggestions as you type
• Search open tabs and recently visited pages
• Navigate results entirely with your keyboard
• Open Universal Search from any webpage with Cmd+Shift+K on macOS or Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows/Linux
• Customize the shortcut from Chrome's extension settings
🌄 BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUNDS
• Discover and search high-quality Unsplash wallpapers
• Upload your own JPG, PNG, or WebP images
• Quickly return to recent wallpapers
• Choose any solid background color
• Use atmospheric Aura backgrounds
• Adjust wallpaper blur and dimming for readability
🚀 LAUNCHPAD
Organize important websites into spaces for work, development, design, study, or anything else.
• Create, rename, reorder, and delete spaces
• Add, remove, and organize links
• Open every link in a space at once
• Access everything from a compact side panel
📰 DEVELOPER NEWS
Stay informed without leaving your new tab.
• Explore Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Dev.to, and more
• Browse stories and trending projects
• Filter by topics like JavaScript, Python, DevOps, and more
🗂️ SIMPLE TAB ACCESS
• View all open tabs
• Search by title or URL
• Switch to any tab instantly
• Close tabs directly from the panel
• See your total open tab count at a glance
⚡ QUICK ACCESS
• Turn recently visited websites into shortcuts
• Choose how many shortcuts appear
• Quickly open Google apps
• Keep optional tools collapsed until you need them
🎨 MAKE IT YOURS
• Show or hide the clock, search, weather, and recent sites
• Choose 12-hour or 24-hour time
• Select Celsius or Fahrenheit
• Choose which sources appear in Universal Search
• Customize wallpapers and visual effects
• Start using Sparkly immediately — no onboarding wizard
🔒 PRIVACY-MINDED
• No Sparkly account required
• No ads or hidden paywalls
• Preferences, Launchpad spaces, and customizations stay in Chrome's local extension storage
• External services are contacted only when needed for wallpapers, weather, feeds, and search suggestions
Sparkly stays out of your way — beautiful when you look at it, useful when you need it, and quiet when you don't.
✨ WHAT'S NEW IN 4.5.0
A lighter, calmer, and more focused Sparkly.
🚀 Redesigned Launchpad
A cleaner vertical sidebar makes spaces easier to create, reorder, edit, and organize.
📰 Streamlined FeedHub
A focused single-panel experience makes developer news faster to browse.
✨ Cleaner New Tab
Improved spacing and alignment reduces clutter while keeping search and shortcuts easy to reach.
⚡ Compact Action Panel
Google Apps, Open Tabs, Launchpad, Feeds, and Settings stay collapsed until you need them.
🌄 Better Wallpaper Controls
Recent wallpapers are easier to access, with a full color picker for solid backgrounds.
🔎 Clearer Search Engine Menu
Improved icons, contrast, and selection states make search engines easier to identify.
👋 Simpler First Run
No onboarding wizard. Sparkly opens immediately with a small, dismissible shortcut hint.
🗂️ Focused Tab Access
Open Tabs focuses on the essentials: search, switch, and close.
⚡ Lighter & Faster
Retired layouts, obsolete settings, and unused onboarding code have been removed.
🐛 BUG FIXES
• Fixed overlapping panels and first-run notices
• Standardized drawer controls
• Fixed inconsistent Settings icon behavior
• Improved active states across the action panel
• Launchpad selection now stays intact when spaces are reordered or updated