AniList
Your anime and manga list with progress, what airs this week, and a feed of the people you follow. Trending titles show without signing in.
Lux
A customizable new tab dashboard for Chrome and Brave.
Lux replaces the new tab page with a dashboard you arrange yourself — a grid of widgets in a glassy light or dark theme. Connect an account only when you want its widget. There’s no Lux account, and your setup stays in your browser.
Free & open source · Read the privacy policy
How it works
Everything happens on the new tab itself.
Add a widget
Open the widget menu, hover to preview where a widget will land, then click to drop it — or drag it onto the grid yourself.
Arrange the grid
Hit edit to rearrange: drag a widget to move it, or drag its corner to resize, and the grid reflows around it.
Widget settings
Open a widget’s settings to switch its surface between Glass and Solid, pick an accent, and set its own options.
Wallpaper and backup
Set a wallpaper, switch light or dark, and export your whole setup to a file — then import it to restore everything on another machine.
Widgets
Twelve to choose from, and you can add more than one of the same kind.
Calendar
Google and Outlook events together, read-only — with join links for video meetings, your RSVP at a glance, and a month grid or a list.
GitHub
Your contribution heatmap with streaks and a per-repository breakdown, an inbox of open pull requests and notifications, and releases from the repositories you watch.
Image
Your own photos on the new tab — a single image, or a slideshow that fades through a set on a timer.
Your Gmail and Outlook inboxes in one list, newest first. Sender, subject, a line of the message, and what is still unread. Search your inbox, filter to unread, and open anything in Gmail or Outlook.
News
Headlines from Google News, The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, NPR, and Yahoo News. Switch sources with a tab; stories open on the publisher’s own site. No account.
Note
A scratch note — plain text, saved as you type.
Quick Access
Pinned tiles for the sites you use, plus your bookmarks, history, recently closed tabs, and most-visited. Drag to reorder, in grid or list.
Sports
Live and upcoming scores for the leagues and teams you follow, across football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, golf and tennis. Open a game for the line score and leaders. No account.
Spotify
Now playing with album art and the full transport — shuffle, skip, repeat, volume — plus search your library and send it to any of your devices. Premium required to control.
Stocks
A watchlist of the tickers you follow with price, change, and a chart, and the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow tracked above it. No account.
Tasks
A local to-do list — add, check off, and drag to reorder, with a done / left count. No account.
Weather
Current conditions and forecasts for the cities you choose — feels-like, wind, UV, sun times, and an hourly and multi-day outlook. No account.
Optional integrations
Connect an account only when you want its widget. Its data is fetched directly from the provider to your browser, never through a Lux server.
Google Calendar
Read-only access to your upcoming events, shown on every new tab.
Outlook Calendar
Read-only access to your upcoming Outlook / Microsoft 365 events.
Gmail
Read-only access to your inbox, listed on the new tab. Lux never sends, changes, or deletes mail.
Outlook Mail
Read-only access to your Outlook inbox, listed alongside Gmail.
Spotify
See what’s playing, control playback, and search your library to play (Premium required to control).
GitHub
Display your contribution graph, notifications, and watched-repository releases.
AniList
Your anime and manga lists and notifications. Lux only reads them, apart from actions you take yourself.
What a connected account can access
Lux reads your data. The only changes it makes are ones you trigger yourself — controlling Spotify playback and, on AniList, liking an activity, updating your progress, or marking notifications read. It never changes your calendars or repositories:
- Google — your calendar events (
calendar.readonly), your account email (userinfo.email), and your Gmail inbox (gmail.readonly). All read-only: Lux never changes an event, and never sends, files, or deletes mail. - Outlook — your events (
Calendars.Read), your inbox (Mail.Read), and basic profile (User.Read), read-only. - Spotify — playback state and your saved tracks and playlists, to show and control what’s playing and to search your library.
- GitHub — your profile, contributions, notifications, and the repositories you watch.
- AniList — your anime and manga lists, notifications, and the activity of people you follow. AniList offers no read-only scope, so the token is account-wide; Lux only reads, except for actions you trigger: liking an activity, adjusting your episode/chapter progress, and marking notifications read.
Lux’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements: Google data is used only to show your events, name the connected account, and list your inbox, on your device — never transferred, never used for advertising, never read by humans, and never used to train a model. See the privacy policy for the full disclosure.
Privacy
Your settings and account tokens are kept in your browser. There’s no Lux account and no analytics of any kind. Google sign-in runs through Chrome itself and never touches a server of ours; Microsoft and GitHub go through a small stateless relay that stores nothing. See the privacy policy for details.