Tabula turns your new tab page into big, clear link tiles for the sites you use most, sorted into groups.
• Big tiles with a picture of each site, or a colored letter until you take one
• Groups as tabs (Work, Reading, Travel…); switch with a click or the arrow keys
• Drag tiles and groups to reorder them
• Search all your tiles right from the new tab page (press /)
• Two styles: a classic grid, or Panorama, with tiles standing on a curved wall
• Light and dark themes; choose tiles per row, title position, page width, and optional background effects
• Back up everything to one small file; import bookmarks from Chrome or Firefox, or export your groups as bookmarks
• Undo for deletes and imports
Private by design
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your tiles stay in Chrome's storage on your computer. Tabula goes online only when you ask it to take site pictures: it then opens your own tile addresses in a minimized window, takes a picture of each, and closes the window.
Free and open source (MIT): https://github.com/abrormaksudov/tabula