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.

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Lux new tab dashboard — default look with calendar, Spotify, weather, GitHub, and tasks widgets
The default look — glass widgets on a themed gradient.
Lux new tab dashboard — customized with a wallpaper and rearranged layout
A custom wallpaper and a rearranged layout.

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.

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.

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.

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 — NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, and NHL. Open a game for the line score and game 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.

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 Calendar — your events (calendar.readonly) and account email (userinfo.email), read-only.
  • Outlook Calendar — your events (Calendars.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 display your events and identify the connected account, on your device — never transferred, never used for advertising, and never read by humans. 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. Connecting Google, Microsoft, or GitHub goes through a small stateless relay that stores nothing — see the privacy policy for details.