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Welcome to Better Home

Better Home is a minimal, delightful new-tab replacement for Chromium-based browsers. It transforms your new tab into a productivity hub with everything you need and nothing you don’t.

Tasks

A lightweight to-do list that remembers your items across sessions. Add, check-off, and delete tasks in a snap.

Quick Links

One-click bookmarks with auto-fetched favicons. Save your most-visited sites and jump to them instantly.

Mood Calendar

Track how you feel every day of 2026 with a beautiful, color-coded calendar. Supports quadrimester and full-year views with smooth Motion animations.

Customizable

Enable or disable any widget via the extension popup - make it your home. Includes backup & restore functionality.

Key Features

Better Home is built with modern web technologies: React 19, TypeScript 5.9, Vite 7, and Tailwind CSS 4.

Fully Responsive

Works seamlessly from ultrawide monitors to small laptops. The layout adapts to your screen size automatically.

Data Persistence

All your tasks, links, calendar entries, and settings are stored locally in your browser using localStorage. Your data never leaves your machine.

Backup & Restore

Download your data as JSON to backup or transfer to another browser. Upload to restore your tasks, links, calendar entries, and settings.

Smooth Animations

Built with Motion (v12) for delightful, performant animations throughout the interface.

Mood Tracking

The mood calendar supports:
  • Color-coded mood entries
  • Quadrimester and full-year views
  • Optional day-number toggle
  • Inline notes for each day
  • Smooth view transitions

What You’ll Need

To install and use Better Home, you’ll need:
1

A Chromium-based browser

Better Home works with Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium-based browsers.
2

Bun package manager

Required to build the extension from source. See the installation guide for setup instructions.
3

Developer mode enabled

You’ll need to enable Developer mode in your browser’s extension settings to load the unpacked extension.

Next Steps

Ready to get started? Follow our installation guide to build and install Better Home in your browser. Once installed, explore these guides:

Open Source

Better Home is open source and licensed under the MIT License. View the source code and contribute on GitHub.
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! See the Contributing guide to get started.

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