Your new tab,finally useful.
Pixl Grid turns every new Chrome tab into your own dashboard: the websites you use, grouped your way, next to today's tasks, your calendar, the weather, and the images you save from the web. One account, every computer.
Free. No ads, no tracking scripts. Built by Pixl Events for its own team and in daily use since September 2025.
Pixl Grid runs in desktop Chrome. Keep this page for when you are back at your desk.
A blank page, replaced with the four things you scatter across other apps.
Scroll, and watch a new tab go from a search box to a dashboard: your sites, what you used yesterday, today's list, and the images you have been collecting.
Every new tab, before
A search box, eight shortcuts, and whatever you can remember to type. The most visited page in your browser, and the least useful.
The websites you use, grouped your way
Every saved site is a card with its logo and a line about it, in collapsible categories you name. Click a card and it opens; Pixl Grid remembers you did.
Recently used first
The twelve sites you opened most recently sit at the top, and inside each category the cards you use most float up on their own. Yesterday's work is already in front of you.
Today's tasks, calendar and weather
A to-do list grouped by day, your Google Calendar events, the weather where you are, and a search box that uses whatever engine Chrome already has set.
Pixls: the images you saved, with the source remembered
A second tab on the dashboard holds every image you saved from the web, each one linked back to the page it came from.
Every new tab used to be a dead end.
The sites you use for work live in a bookmarks bar that ran out of room years ago, a folder tree you never open, and your memory. Pixl Grid puts them where you already are, a hundred times a day, instead of adding another app you have to remember to open.
From any page on the web, one click or Alt + B.
The page's title, address, icon and description are captured for you. It lands on your dashboard under Chrome Bookmarks, ready to file, with no form to fill in.
A private moodboard that remembers where everything came from.
Every image, GIF or short video you save shows up in a gallery on your new tab. Open one full screen, step through with the arrow keys, and hit Visit Source to go back to the page you found it on.
Worth knowing: Pixl Grid stores the image's address and its source page, not a copy of the file. That keeps the gallery light and always linked to the original. If a site removes an image, that Pixl stops displaying.
Nothing screenshotted. Nothing lost its origin.
A designer researching a festival site turns on image tagging for the three sites she takes references from. A week later she opens a new tab in the client meeting and walks through the grid. For any image the client likes, Visit Source opens the original page.
The day's list is on every new tab, so it gets looked at.
Tasks, calendar, weather, search and a line of Stoic wisdom sit in a sidebar you can fold away with one key.
Let it file the mess.
Everything sitting in Chrome Bookmarks can be filed into your existing categories in one click, with new categories created when nothing fits. Turn on auto-categorize and every new save and import is filed as it arrives.
What it touches, and what it does not
- Off until you turn it on. It runs on your own Anthropic key, entered once, checked, and stored encrypted. Usage is billed to your account: roughly 13 cents per thousand bookmarks.
- Only the unsorted pile leaves. Titles, addresses and descriptions of the bookmarks waiting in Chrome Bookmarks. Nothing you already filed is ever touched or sent.
- Unsure means untouched. Anything it cannot place with confidence stays where it was, for you, instead of landing in a catch-all.
One dashboard on every computer.
Categories, sites, tasks, Pixls and settings are stored against your account, not your browser. Sign in on the office desktop after a weekend on the laptop and it is all there, including Saturday's tasks under Saturday's date.
The office desktop, Monday morning
The laptop, the weekend before
Backed up daily
A backup of your sites, categories, tasks and settings is made once a day when you open the dashboard, or on demand. The last three are kept and any of them can be restored.
Make it yours
Upload your own background image and set how much it is dimmed behind the panels. Categories can open by default; the sidebar folds with one key.
Sign in with Google, or email
One click with Google, or a name, email and password. Uninstall the extension and nothing is lost: your dashboard lives in your account, and it is there again the moment you sign in.
It only runs where you tell it to.
People who install extensions carefully read the permission prompt. Here is what Pixl Grid asks for, in plain words, and what it deliberately does not do.
Only the sites you enable
Image capture is off on every site until you switch it on for that one site, and Chrome asks your permission when you do. There is no blanket access to all websites, and turning a site off releases the permission.
Your history stays in your browser
Suggestions and the History card are read on demand inside Chrome. Your history is never uploaded to or stored by Pixl Grid, and the card can stay collapsed if you never want to see it.
No ads, no tracking, free
There are no advertising or analytics scripts in the app and no data sales. The privacy policy says so in plain language, and it was written to pass a Chrome Web Store review on exactly these points.
The permission prompt, translated
- storage
- Your login and preferences.
- activeTab and scripting
- Read the current page only when you click the button or press Alt+B, and run the image-capture script only on sites you enabled.
- notifications
- The small confirmation after Alt+B.
- search
- Route your query to the engine you already chose.
- history
- Suggestions as you type and the optional History card, read locally.
- site access
- Optional, granted one site at a time when you enable image capture. Never all websites.
Full detail in the privacy policy. Not for children under 13.
Under five minutes from Add to Chrome to a useful tab.
Add to Chrome
From the Chrome Web Store listing, click Add to Chrome and accept the prompt. It asks for the current tab when you click, notifications, search and history. Not access to all websites.
Create your account
Open a new tab. Sign in with Google in one click, or with a name, email and password. A welcome email asks you to verify; you can use the dashboard straight away either way.
Save your first site
Go to any website, click the Pixl Grid icon, press Bookmark This Page. Open a new tab: it is there. On the next site, press Alt+B instead, then turn on image tagging where you collect from.
Straight answers.
What is Pixl Grid?
A free extension for Google Chrome that replaces your new tab page with a personal dashboard: the websites you use, grouped into categories, alongside your to-do list, calendar, weather and a search box. A gallery called Pixls collects images you save from the web. Everything is tied to your account, so it is the same on every computer where you sign in.
Is Pixl Grid free?
Yes. There are no paid plans, no ads and no in-app purchases. The only optional cost is the organizer, which uses your own Anthropic account and costs a few cents per thousand bookmarks.
Do I need an account?
Yes. Your dashboard is stored against your account, which is what makes it sync between computers and survive a browser reinstall. Sign up with Google or with an email and password.
Does it work in Firefox, Safari or Edge?
It is built for Google Chrome on desktop. Other browsers based on Chromium can often install Chrome extensions, but we have not tested them. The dashboard at pixlgrid.io opens in any modern desktop browser, without the page-saving and image-capture features that need the extension.
Does it work on my phone?
No. Pixl Grid is a desktop new tab product and has no mobile layout today.
How do I save a website to my dashboard?
On any page, click the Pixl Grid icon in the toolbar and press Bookmark This Page, or press Alt+B. The page appears in a Chrome Bookmarks category on your new tab, with its title, description and icon filled in.
Does Pixl Grid run on every website I visit?
No. Image capture is off on every site until you enable it for that specific site, and Chrome asks your permission for that one site when you do. Saving a page with the button or Alt+B reads only the tab you are on, only when you press it.
Does Pixl Grid see my browsing history?
The extension reads your Chrome history inside your browser to suggest pages as you type in the search box and to show the optional History panel. That history stays in your browser. It is never sent to or stored by Pixl Grid.
Will it change my search engine?
No. The search box on your new tab sends your query to whatever search engine Chrome already has set as default. Pixl Grid never changes that setting.
How does the organizer work, and what does it send?
It looks at the bookmarks waiting in your Chrome Bookmarks category and files each one into the category that fits, creating new categories when needed. Only the titles, web addresses and descriptions of those unsorted bookmarks are sent to Anthropic, and only when you have turned the feature on with your own API key. Bookmarks you already filed are never touched, and anything the organizer is unsure about is left for you.
What are Pixls?
Images, GIFs and short videos you save from websites. Turn on image tagging for a site in the extension popup, hover any image on that site, and click the small Pixl icon. Your saved images appear in a gallery on your new tab, each with a link back to the page you found it on. Pixl Grid stores the image's address and its source page, not a copy of the file.
Can I connect my calendar?
Yes, Google Calendar, with read-only access, and you can connect more than one Google account. Events appear on the sidebar calendar and you can open any event for its details and meeting link. You cannot create or edit events from Pixl Grid.
Is my data backed up, and can I export it?
A backup of your sites, categories, tasks and settings is made automatically once a day when you open your dashboard, and you can make one manually at any time. The last three are kept and you can restore any of them from the settings menu. Tasks export to CSV; a full export of sites and Pixls is available from support on request.
What happens to my dashboard if I uninstall the extension?
Nothing. Your data lives in your account, not in the extension. Reinstall, or sign in at pixlgrid.io, and it is all there.
Is there a team or shared version?
No. Every account is personal. Sharing a dashboard or a gallery with someone else is not supported.
Open a new tab. It is already useful.
Two clicks to install, one to sign in with Google, and the first site is saved with Alt+B.
Free. No ads, no tracking, no card. Desktop Chrome, version 1.5.8 on the Chrome Web Store.