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Install butter
Add butter to Chrome from the Web Store. Free, no account required to start, takes about ten seconds.
butter is a Chrome extension that replaces the new-tab page. Installing is one click from the Chrome Web Store — and the moment it lands you can open any new tab to start using it. There's no account, no email capture, no welcome questionnaire.
What you get on the free install
- All fourteen widgets — Clock, Weather, Calendar, Pomodoro, Todo, Scratchpad, Quick Links, Quote, GitHub, Linear, Hacker News, Reddit, Inspiration, and the AI Inbox. The AI Inbox ships with one free triage a day (Pro lifts the cap to unlimited). Calendar shows your day free; the AI brief layered on the next event needs Pro. Everything else works on Free, including two-way Todo sync with TickTick.
- Up to six widgets on a dashboard. The cap exists to keep the free tier honest, not to nag you — almost any focused dashboard fits in six. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited.
- All themes and backgrounds. Light, dark, system, sixteen solid presets across light and dark, twelve gradient presets modeled on popular editor themes, plus a custom-hex picker.
- Sync via your Chrome. The layout, theme, and background ride on Chrome's built-in profile sync — sign into Chrome on another machine and your dashboard follows. No butter account needed.
What happens the first time you open a new tab
The first new tab after install is a welcome screen, not an empty grid. Two paths, both clearly labelled:
- Set up a starter dashboard. One click loads a five-widget starter — Clock, Weather, Pomodoro, Todo, Scratchpad — laid out cleanly across the 12-column grid. Drag, resize, replace anything you don't want.
- Pick widgets one at a time. Six no-setup widgets are surfaced as one-click adds — the same ones in the starter, plus Quick Links. The GitHub / Linear / AI Inbox widgets aren't in the welcome grid because they'd dead-end a first-time user with an OAuth or Pro requirement; you can add them from the picker afterwards.
Either way you'll see the keyboard shortcuts pinned at the bottom — E to edit, A to add, , for settings, ? for the full shortcuts list. Worth glancing at once before you start clicking.