Open a tab. Know what to do. Inbox, GitHub, calendar, HN — already there. Free, no account, this device.
Users
16
−1 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#167K
#140K among extensions
Version
1.5.8
updated 7 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 5 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:16 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 5 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About butter: a new tab that knows the hour
butter turns Chrome's new tab into a productivity dashboard with draggable, resizable widgets. PRs, Linear issues, focus timer, markets, notes — built for developers who live in the browser.
WHAT'S BUILT IN (15 widgets)
• Clock & Weather — local conditions and time at a glance, timezone picker for a second clock
• Pomodoro — focus + break timer with circular progress, alarm sounds, OS notifications
• Quick Links — your bookmark grid with automatic favicons
• Todo — dates, priority, tags, natural-language quick-add ("reply to Sam tomorrow !high #work")
• Scratchpad — live markdown rendering: type `# heading`, `- bullet`, `[ ] task`
• Hacker News — front page
• Inspiration — image grid from The Met
• GitHub — PRs awaiting your review, in line with everything else
• Contributions — your GitHub heatmap and streak, tinted with your theme's accent
• Linear — open issues assigned to you
• Google Calendar — your agenda (today, three days, or the week — the widget adapts to its size) with countdown to your next meeting and one-click join
• Ticker — crypto and stock watchlist with prices, daily change, and 7-day sparklines. Crypto works with zero setup; stocks take your own free Finnhub key
• AI Inbox — AI-written triage of your PRs and Linear issues, ranked by what needs you next. It learns, too: what you click, complete, and dismiss tunes the ranking over time (1 free triage a day; Pro lifts the cap)
• Quote — a quiet rotation for the corner of the dashboard
EIGHT HANDCRAFTED THEMES
• Four dark (Butter, Dracula, Tokyo Night, Nord) and four light (Butter, Paper, Mist, Linen)
• Each is a complete palette with its own accent that reaches into every widget — even the contribution heatmap wears it
• System mode glides between your light and dark picks with your OS
START FROM A TEMPLATE
• Pick a role on first run — Engineer, PM / Founder, Designer, or Minimal — and land on a complete dashboard, not an empty grid
• Connect GitHub, Linear, or Google Calendar right in the flow so your widgets fill with real data immediately
• Screenshot tool — Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S captures your dashboard with size presets for Twitter, Instagram, and desktop wallpapers, plus one-click copy or download
WORKS WITH THE TAB CLOSED
• Desktop notifications — butter checks your AI Inbox in the background and notifies you when something new needs attention. One toggle, no scheduling homework, and it never re-alerts about things it already told you
KEYBOARD-DRIVEN
• E to toggle edit mode
• A to add a widget
• , to open settings
• ? for the full shortcut sheet
• Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S for the screenshot tool
• 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, Linear, and Google Calendar stay in your browser
• Market data comes straight from CoinGecko / Finnhub to your browser; your Finnhub key never leaves the device you typed it on
• The AI Inbox's learned ranking weights never leave your device
• 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
• Cloud sync — your dashboard follows you across devices, beyond Chrome's built-in sync
OPEN BY DEFAULT
butter is built so you can audit the integrations, not just trust them. Your data, your tokens, your dashboard.
trybutter.xyz
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