Bonjourr puts a minimal page at the centre: the time, a greeting and a beautiful photo. Hoome, our own extension, puts your sites at the centre, tidied into folders and a Dock.
Checked on October 6, 2026
Hoome Ours
Choose Hoome if your new tab should first tidy your sites into folders, with a Dock and backups that happen on their own; beyond a hundred shortcuts and five folders, and for most widgets, you will need Premium.
Bonjourr
Choose Bonjourr if you want a beautiful, understated page, entirely free and open source, in your language, with real photos and the freedom of CSS.
Bonjourr is a French new tab page, free and open source, which describes itself as an alternative to Momentum: a beautiful photo that changes with the time of day, the time, a greeting and quick links. Hoome, our own extension, starts with tidying: your sites in folders, as on a phone, and whatever you want around them. This page compares them point by point, with every fact about Bonjourr taken from its public pages, cited at the bottom of the page and checked on the date shown above.
| Hoome | Bonjourr | |
|---|---|---|
| The basics | ||
| What it puts at the centre | Your sites, tidied into folders and a Dock | A minimal page: the time, a greeting and a background |
| Price and code | ||
| Price | Free; Premium at €1.99 per month €11.99 per year and €24.99 for life at launch prices, then €14.99 and €36; fourteen free days on the yearly plan | Free Funded by donations |
| Open source | No. Closed | Yes. Open Under the GPL 3.0 licence |
| Features | ||
| Links | Shortcuts in folders, a Dock and a search through your shortcuts A hundred shortcuts and five folders on the free version | Quick links, folders made by dropping one link onto another, optional link groups Import of your bookmarks and most visited sites, which can stay synced with the browser's |
| Backgrounds | Gradients and two animated backgrounds free each week With Premium, more than a hundred and thirty backgrounds drawn by code, and your own picture | Unsplash photos that change with the time of day Pixabay videos, your own files or a colour |
| Widgets | Weather, tasks and notes Ten more with Premium (eight on Firefox), including Today's focus, the calendar, habits and tides | Time and world clocks, weather, notes with checkboxes, quotes, a Pomodoro timer |
| Customisation | Theme, icons, clock Seven layouts, two of them free; several desks with Premium | Hundreds of fonts, custom CSS Theme profiles, three column-based layouts |
| Account and data | ||
| Account | None for the free version Premium requires signing in with Google | None |
| Sync | Through your browser's account Between computers using the same browser, to be turned on in the settings | Through your browser's account, from installation From one browser to another, through GitHub Gist or an online settings file |
| Automatic backups | Yes. Three backups on your computer Automatic or manual; export and import | No. Export and import Settings copied to your browser's account by default |
| Services contacted | Site icons, from Google and DuckDuckGo Open-Meteo for the weather, the tides and searching for a town, switched off by default; hoome.dev for the Premium account, if you sign in | From the first launch: its own services for the list of photos, the weather and quotes, and Unsplash's servers for the image itself Then, if you use them: its services for link icons and search suggestions |
| Languages and browsers | ||
| Interface languages | Five | More than forty |
| Browsers | Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox No Safari | Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox Its online version also serves as a home page in Safari, whose extension was discontinued in May 2026 |
Every fact about Bonjourr comes from its public pages, listed at the bottom of this page and checked on October 6, 2026.
Bonjourr has neither a paid version nor an account: its two developers work on it in their spare time, and donations are its only funding. Its code is public, under the GPL 3.0 licence, and its services can even be self-hosted.
Bonjourr is translated into more than forty languages by its community. Hoome has five.
By default, Bonjourr shows hand-picked photos, sorted by time of day, and can switch to videos. Its authors keep AI-generated images out of their collections.
Hundreds of fonts, a custom CSS field and theme profiles to import: Bonjourr goes much further than Hoome in the fine detail of the page's look.
Bonjourr can keep its links synced with your browser's bookmarks: whatever you change there shows up on the page. Hoome imports your bookmarks once, then keeps them separately.
Through GitHub Gist, or through a settings file hosted online, Bonjourr carries its settings from Chrome to Firefox. An online version also lets you try it without installing anything, and use it in Safari.
Bonjourr also sorts its links into folders, but Hoome is built around them: your Essentials, the row of sites you use every day, placed as a Dock at the bottom of the page, a search that filters your shortcuts as you type, and, with Premium, several desks, one for work, the other for home.
On the free version, Hoome has the weather, tasks and notes; Bonjourr offers, without paying, the time and world clocks, the weather, notes, quotes and a Pomodoro timer. Premium adds ten widgets, eight on Firefox, including Today's focus, the countdown, the calendar, habits, sun and moon, and tides, which Bonjourr does not have.
Hoome's backgrounds are drawn by code, with no photo or video to download: the page opens without waiting for the network.
On installation, Hoome only contacts the icon services of Google and DuckDuckGo, directly from your browser, and the weather stays off until you turn it on. Bonjourr queries its services for photos, the weather and quotes from the first launch, but these requests go through its own API, which, according to its privacy policy, keeps nothing and acts as your intermediary with third-party services; only the image itself comes directly from Unsplash. In both cases, no account and no usage analytics.
Hoome takes a backup on your computer every day and keeps three in all, counting the ones you make by hand. It restores the most recent one by itself if the page's data disappears while the backups are still there. Uninstalling erases everything, backups included: only an export, or another synced computer, will then bring your page back. Bonjourr has no automatic backup, but by default copies its settings to your browser's account, if you are signed in to it; with Hoome, you turn this sync on in the settings.
Your sites sorted into folders, a search that filters your shortcuts as you type, and the weather, tasks and notes alongside. See every feature
Hoome does not read Bonjourr's export file. The simplest way to switch:
From the Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons or Edge Add-ons.
Import your browser's bookmarks, up to the free version's limit of a hundred shortcuts and five folders, or pick them from the catalogue of popular sites.
Turn off or remove Bonjourr on the extensions page, since Chrome only gives the new tab page to one extension.
Yes, entirely. Bonjourr has no paid version: its two developers work on it in their spare time, and donations are its only funding. Hoome has a free version with no time limit, and a Premium version, by subscription or as a one-off payment, which lifts its limits.
No. Bonjourr's code is public, under the GPL 3.0 licence; Hoome's is not. What Hoome does with your data is described in its privacy policy: your shortcuts, folders and notes only go through our servers if you are a Premium subscriber signed in to your account: syncing between your computers then keeps a copy, which you can turn off.
Yes. Dropping one link onto another creates a folder, and link groups can be turned on in the settings. Hoome is built around this kind of tidying: folders as on a phone, a Dock for the sites you use every day, and a search that filters your shortcuts as you type.
With Bonjourr, yes, in two ways, both manual: through GitHub Gist, with a GitHub account and a token to paste into each browser, then by sending and retrieving your settings; or through a settings file hosted at a web address, which each browser fetches. With Hoome, no: sync goes through your browser's account, and only links computers using the same browser with the same account. To move from one to the other, you can export a file and then import it.
Not as an extension: Bonjourr for Safari was discontinued in May 2026. Its online version can still serve as a home page in Safari, though. Hoome does not exist for Safari: it works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox.
You can install both, but Chrome only gives the new tab page to one extension: the last one installed. Turn off the one you are not using on Chrome's extensions page.
Five seconds to install, no sign up, and your sites finally where they belong.
On a phone, tap “Add to Desktop” on the Chrome Web Store: Hoome will install in Chrome on your computer, if it is signed in to the same Google account.