Stable signalNo paid features detectedMedium-risk permissions

New tab page by start.me

Replace your New Tab Page with a personal dashboard.

Users100KCurrent public install base

Rating4.3Store average score

Reviews1,429Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

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Version7.3.0

ManifestV3

Size1.93MiB

Languages30Deutsch / English / Indonesia +27

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Overview

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start.me turns your Chrome New Tab page into a beautiful personal dashboard. This helps you to stay organized and get more done in less time.

You can use start.me in every web browser. This allows you to have the same bookmarks, notes and to-do lists at hand, on any device you use.

More than +850,000 people already use start.me.

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What functionality does this New Tab extension offer?

✔ Changes your New Tab page to start.me

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Store average score4.3Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.3Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text1,048Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews1,429Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.3. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Daniel Schoonover2014年11月26日

This was great until the developer decided to include malicious advertising banners within the apps start page. Great way to ruin what was an awesome page. I get popups and malicious code installation screens daily now.

Zoey2014年11月16日

Super addon if you add more widges I like you even more like eg youtube widge of my subscriptions

mimi kolk2014年11月15日

It sucks

rien rien2014年11月10日

pas mal, je cherche une photo de fond d'ecran pour que ça soit un peu plus gai.

hel leen2014年11月3日

need to wait forever when opening the new tab

Ongeldig mail adres Niet gebruiken voor mail2014年10月26日

Crab

John Poropat2014年10月20日

Great product until they added advertising banners on the home page. No Good!!!

Augusto de Sá2014年9月1日

Uuuusefull!!!!

Martin C2014年9月1日

Easy use. Only feature I miss is notebook history.

Donnie G2014年9月1日

Replaced my "New Tab" without asking first.

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Replaces Chrome's New Tab page with a personal dashboard powered by start.me, providing bookmarks, RSS feeds, notes, to-do lists, and customizable widgets.

Transforms the default Chrome new tab page into an organized, personalized start page so users can access their bookmarks, notes, feeds, and to-do lists from every new tab, staying organized and productive across devices.

User installs extension → new tab page becomes start.me dashboard → an anonymous account is created automatically → user can optionally register for a free start.me account to persist data and sync across devices → user configures their dashboard with bookmarks, widgets, RSS feeds, and notes → every new tab opened shows the personalized start.me dashboard.

Target users: Users who want a personalized start page instead of Chrome's default new tab / People who use bookmarks, notes, and RSS feeds regularly / Users who want their start page consistent across multiple browsers/devices

Source code is heavily bundled/webpacked making it difficult to trace exact UI flows
Could not inspect the actual rendered new tab page to confirm whether Pro features are visually locked/gated within the dashboard
The extension loads content from start.me web app which may dynamically render paywall UI that isn't visible in the static source

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension itself does not gate features behind payment, implement billing APIs, or show upgrade/payment UI. References to 'Pro' and 'account_type_pro' in locale files are labels for displaying the user's account type from the start.me service. The start.me web service has a Pro plan, but the extension acts as a launcher/connector to start.me and does not enforce payment within the extension workflow.

Confidence: 75
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / Medium
Login required: No
Reason: The extension creates an anonymous user automatically via the start.me API (POST /users/new/anonymous.json) so the core new tab page workflow works without explicit sign-in. Users can optionally register/sign in to a start.me account for cross-device sync and persistence, but it is not required to use the extension's new tab page functionality.

Permission risk

Medium-risk permissions

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扩展能力较强：storage、activeTab

Publisher

startmedev

Arjen Robijn

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +31620736500
Address: Waalsdorperweg 16 Den Haag 2597JB NL

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