Tabloid

v1.0.1 Productivity Available

All your feeds, at a glance, on every new tab. RSS and Atom feeds in elegant frosted boxes over a beautiful photo, with a clock and a friendly greeting on top.

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What is Tabloid?

Most feed readers make you go somewhere. Tabloid brings the news to the page you open most: the new tab. Your favorite RSS and Atom feeds float in elegant frosted boxes over a beautiful photo, with a clock and a friendly greeting on top.

There is no account, no backend, and no tracking. Your feeds are fetched directly by your browser and never pass through our servers.

Tabloid is available now on the Chrome Web Store.

How it works

Every feed gets its own glass panel. Drag the panels anywhere, resize them freely, and Tabloid restores your layout on every new tab. Each article is one or two lines with a relative timestamp: click the chevron to slide open the summary and the exact publication date, or click the title to read the original article.

Backgrounds come from Pexels, based on your own keywords (for example “misty forest, ocean sunset, northern lights”) with a free personal API key. Without a key, Tabloid rotates a small set of gorgeous bundled photos, and photographers are always credited. Prefer something calmer? Switch to animated gradient backgrounds instead.

There is also an optional shortcuts row with your most visited sites under the greeting: add your own, pin favorites, rename them, and drag to reorder. The feature is off by default and only activated when you turn it on.

Who it’s for

News junkies who want their headlines the moment a tab opens
Professionals tracking industry sources without opening yet another app
Privacy-conscious readers who want a feed reader with no account and no analytics
Anyone who thinks the default new tab page is a wasted opportunity

Features

One box per feed: every feed lives in its own glass panel with the feed title in the header
Arrange it your way: drag boxes anywhere and resize them freely, Tabloid remembers your layout on every new tab
Compact and readable: one or two lines per article with a relative timestamp, click to slide open the summary
Beautiful backgrounds: random photos based on your own keywords via a free Pexels API key, gorgeous bundled photos, or animated gradients
Shortcuts row: optional most-visited sites under the greeting, with add, pin, rename, and drag to reorder
Instant loading: feeds and photos are cached and the next photo is preloaded, so your new tab appears immediately
Speaks your language: available in 12 languages, following your browser language or the one you pick

What it doesn't do

Send your feeds, keywords, or reading habits to any server of ours
Include analytics or tracking of any kind
Require an account, login, or sign-up
Request blanket access to all websites (feed access is granted per origin, only when you add a feed)

Permissions

Every permission this extension asks for, and why it needs it.

storage

Stores your settings (feed URLs, photo keywords, optional Pexels API key, display preferences) and caches feed items, box layout, and the preloaded background photo so the new tab page renders instantly.

favicon

Renders the icons of the optional most-visited-sites shortcuts row via the browser’s built-in favicon API. No warning is shown for this permission and no network requests are involved.

topSites (optional)

Powers the shortcuts row under the greeting. The feature is off by default; the permission is requested only when you switch it on, and removed again when you switch it off.

optional host permissions

No host access is required at install. Access is requested per feed origin at the moment you add that feed, and revoked when the last feed on an origin is removed. Access to api.pexels.com and images.pexels.com is requested only when you provide your own Pexels API key, and revoked when the key is removed. No browsing data is read.

chrome_url_overrides: newtab

The core feature: Tabloid is a new tab page. Removing the extension restores your original new tab.

Privacy first

Tabloid collects nothing. Your feeds, keywords, and settings stay in your browser, and feeds are downloaded straight from the sources you configure. No account, no analytics, no server of ours involved.

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Support

Need help with Tabloid, found a bug, or have a feature request? Get in touch and we'll get back to you.

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