butter — buttery-smooth new tab

Tracking since May 15, 2026.

Changelog

• May 21, 2026
  description

  butter turns Chrome's new tab into a productivity dashboard with draggable, resizable widgets. PRs, Linear issues, focus timer, notes — built for developers who live in the browser.
  
  WHAT'S BUILT IN
  • Clock & Weather — local conditions and time at a glance
  • Pomodoro — focus + break timer with circular progress, OS notifications
  • Quick Links — your bookmark grid with auto-favicons
  • Todo & Scratchpad — autosaved, never leave the new tab
  • Hacker News & Reddit — front page, your subreddits
  • GitHub — PRs awaiting your review, in line with everything else
  • Linear — open issues assigned to you
  • Quote — a quiet rotation for the corner of the dashboard
  
  KEYBOARD-DRIVEN
  • E to toggle edit mode
  • A to add a widget
  • , to open settings
  • ? for the full shortcut sheet
  • Drag and resize on a 12-column grid that snaps cleanly
  
  PRIVACY-FIRST
  • Layouts and widget data live in your browser's local storage
  • Nothing is sent to our servers unless you opt in
  • OAuth tokens for GitHub and Linear stay in your browser
  • See https://trybutter.xyz/privacy for the full policy
  
  PRO ($5/mo or $48/yr)
  • AI Inbox — an AI-written triage of your PRs and Linear issues, ranked by urgency
  • Unlimited widget instances
  • Premium integrations: Google Calendar, Gmail preview, Spotify (rolling out)
  • Cross-browser sync once Firefox and Safari builds ship
  • Premium themes and custom backgrounds
  
  OPEN BY DEFAULT
  butter is built so you can audit the integrations, not just trust them. Your data, your tokens, your dashboard.
  
  trybutter.xyz

  butter turns Chrome's new tab into a productivity dashboard with draggable, resizable widgets. PRs, Linear issues, focus timer, notes — built for developers who live in the browser.
  
  WHAT'S BUILT IN
  • Clock & Weather — local conditions and time at a glance
  • Pomodoro — focus + break timer with circular progress, OS notifications
  • Quick Links — your bookmark grid with auto-favicons
  • Todo — dates, priority, tags, quick-add natural language; optional two-way TickTick sync
  • Scratchpad — live markdown rendering: type `# heading`, `- bullet`, `[ ] task`
  • Hacker News & Reddit — front page, your subreddits
  • Inspiration — image grid from any Are.na channel
  • GitHub — PRs awaiting your review, in line with everything else
  • Linear — open issues assigned to you
  • Google Calendar — today's agenda with countdown to your next meeting and one-click join
  • AI Inbox — AI-written triage of your PRs and Linear issues, ranked by what needs you next (1 free a day; Pro lifts the cap)
  • Quote — a quiet rotation for the corner of the dashboard
  
  KEYBOARD-DRIVEN
  • E to toggle edit mode
  • A to add a widget
  • , to open settings
  • ? for the full shortcut sheet
  • Drag and resize on a 12-column grid that snaps cleanly
  
  PRIVACY-FIRST
  • Layouts and widget data live in your browser's local storage
  • Nothing is sent to our servers unless you opt in
  • OAuth tokens for GitHub and Linear stay in your browser
  • See https://trybutter.xyz/privacy for the full policy
  
  PRO ($5/mo or $48/yr)
  • Unlimited AI Inbox — removes the one-a-day free cap
  • AI Meeting Prep — a one-line brief for your next calendar meeting, pulling context from connected GitHub and Linear
  • Unlimited widget instances
  • Cross-browser sync once Firefox and Safari builds ship
  • Premium themes and custom backgrounds
  
  OPEN BY DEFAULT
  butter is built so you can audit the integrations, not just trust them. Your data, your tokens, your dashboard.
  
  trybutter.xyz

• May 21, 2026
  category

  productivity/developer

  productivity/workflow

• May 21, 2026
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Permissions & access

Permissions

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Host access

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