FREE Chrome extension · No account · 18 languages
Startwerk is a free new tab extension for Chrome. It turns every new tab into a calm start page you arrange yourself: Spaces for work and free time, your bookmarks, calendar, weather, feeds and habits. All in one place, the moment you open a tab.
Startwerk changes that. Your next meeting, today’s weather, fresh headlines and the sites you actually use are right there before you type a single letter.
Drag, resize, done. No account. No tracking. Three minutes from install to a page that feels like yours.
Pick the widgets you want, put them where you like and leave out the rest. Your start page shows exactly what matters to you.
Split work and free time into Spaces, each with its own bookmarks and widgets. Switch with the Spaces bar at the top, or set your working hours and Startwerk opens the right Space by itself. Pin a widget once and it keeps the same spot in every Space.
Your favorite sites as tidy icons. Rearrange them with drag and drop, or let Startwerk sort them by how often you click. Type / to search them.
Right now, the next hours and the days ahead for your postal code. Open data from Deutscher Wetterdienst via Bright Sky.Currently available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Poland and the Czech Republic. More countries are planned.
Connect any iCal calendar feed. Your next event appears front and center, the three after it right below.
Follow any site with an RSS or Atom feed and read fresh headlines right on your start page. Updated every 30 minutes.
Track up to five daily habits, keep your streak alive and see how you’re doing over time. Every day Startwerk suggests one habit to focus on.
A guided breathing exercise with a soft, living light. Pick one of four rhythms, add a quiet meditation tone if you like, and let the rest of the page fade out for a minute.
A fresh productivity tip every morning from a collection of 465, never the same one twice in a row. In English and German.
Add up to ten of your own photos and let them take turns. They stay on the device you added them on.
Jot down what’s on your mind with simple formatting. Count down the days to your next launch, trip or deadline.
Place a live website as a tile on your start page, in any size you like. Works with every site that allows embedding.
A slim progress bar shows how much of your workday is behind you. After hours, Startwerk opens your free-time Space on its own.
Your recently closed tabs and windows are right there. One click, and they’re back.
Pin up to five Slack contacts, with a photo if you like, and jump straight into a huddle.
A big clock, digital or analog. Search with Google, Bing, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, Perplexity, ChatGPT or Chrome’s default.
One of your own Readwise highlights every day, right where you start. Works with your existing Readwise account. Startwerk isn’t an official Readwise product.
Startwerk adapts to the way you work. Not the other way around.
Move any widget wherever you want and give it exactly the size it deserves. Undo and redo if you change your mind.
Pick a gradient, a color or your own photo. Or let a dynamic sky follow the time of day.
Startwerk is available in 18 languages. Pick yours, and everything follows.
Your setup syncs through your own Chrome account to your other computers. Prefer to keep it local? Turn sync off.
Import your bookmarks bar or your most visited sites with one click. Export your Spaces, bookmarks and feeds as a preset to keep or share.
Widget shadows, bold or italic clock, sorting by clicks: small switches, so the page looks the way you want it to.
Turn on the weather background and your start page shows the weather outside, softly, as if through a misted window. Real sunrise and sunset times. Rain that lands on the glass and runs down. A starry sky at night that follows the cloud cover. Currently available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Your bookmarks, notes and settings live in your browser. Nowhere else.
There is no Startwerk server your data could go to.
No analytics, no third-party scripts, no ad networks.
Install it and get started. No sign-up required.
Stored in your browser. Synced only through your own Chrome account.
Feeds, calendars and weather load directly from their providers. Chrome only asks for the one site you add.
How is a free extension paid for? A few clearly labelled partner recommendations. You can dismiss them or remove them completely. No data is sent to partners unless you click. Read the full privacy policy.
Open Startwerk in the Chrome Web Store and click “Add to Chrome”. No account, no sign-up.
It’s already there: a Spaces bar, clock, search and bookmarks. A short tour shows you around.
Click “Edit”, add the widgets you want and import your bookmarks bar with one click.
Everything you need to know before you install.
Free. Private. Yours.
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