Momentum puts your focus for the day at the centre, with a photo and a quote. Hoome, our own extension, puts your sites at the centre, tidied into folders as on a phone.
Checked on October 6, 2026
Hoome Ours
Choose Hoome if your new tab should take you to your sites first, if you would rather have an interface in a language other than English, and if you want nothing to go through the developer's servers.
Momentum
Choose Momentum if you want a focus dashboard, with a site blocker, ambient sounds and your task managers, or if you use Safari or an iPhone.
Momentum is one of the best-known new tab extensions: a landscape photo every day, a quote, the question “What is your main focus for today?”, and tools to help you focus. Hoome, our own extension, starts from a different idea: getting to your sites in one click, tidied into folders as on a phone. This page compares them point by point, with every fact about Momentum taken from its public pages, cited at the bottom of the page and checked on the date shown above.
| Hoome | Momentum | |
|---|---|---|
| The basics | ||
| What it puts at the centre | Your sites, tidied into folders | Your focus for the day, a photo and a quote |
| Pricing | ||
| Free version | Yes. A hundred shortcuts, five folders Gradients and two free animated backgrounds each week, weather, tasks, notes, sync | Yes. No time limit Photo, quote and mantra of the day, focus for the day, to-do list, links, weather, calendar, Focus mode with a daily limit |
| Paid version | Premium: €1.99 per month €11.99 per year and €24.99 for life at launch prices, then €14.99 and €36 | Plus: $4.95 a month $39.95 a year, in US dollars; a lifetime purchase available on request from support |
| Trial | Fourteen days On the yearly plan, card required | Seven days Card required |
| Features | ||
| Shortcut folders | Yes. Folders, a Dock and search through your shortcuts | No. Pinned links, with no folders With Plus, groups that open in one click |
| Focus | Partly. A timer and Today's focus, in Premium Nothing that blocks a site, and no ambient sounds | Yes. Focus mode, Pomodoro, site blocker, ambient sounds Focus mode with a daily limit on the free version; Plus lifts the limit |
| Connected tools | No. None | Yes. Google or Outlook calendar, for free With Plus, task and development services, including Todoist, Asana, Trello and GitHub |
| Artificial intelligence | No. None | Yes. Ask AI and AI-assisted notes In Plus, through Microsoft Azure and OpenAI |
| Account and data | ||
| Account | None for the free version | Optional But needed to sync |
| Sync | Partly. Free, between computers using the same browser Through your browser's account | Yes. Across browsers and devices With a free Momentum account, iPhone and iPad included |
| Your data | In your browser And in your browser's account if you sync, or on hoome.dev with the Premium sync | Without an account, in the browser With an account, held by Momentum, hosted on Microsoft Azure |
| Usage analytics | None | A record of how features are used Without the content you create, according to its policy, which names PostHog |
| Languages and browsers | ||
| Interface languages | Five English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese | English |
| Browsers | Partly. Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox On desktop | Yes. Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari And iPhone and iPad, through Safari |
Every fact about Momentum comes from its public pages, listed at the bottom of this page and checked on October 6, 2026.
This is the heart of Momentum: a Focus mode, a Pomodoro timer, a site blocker and ambient sounds. On the free version, Focus mode has a daily limit, and the blocker only works during a Focus mode session, within the same limit; Plus lifts the limit, and adds the Pomodoro timer and a blocker you can start on its own. In Premium, Hoome has a timer that alternates work and breaks, and a Today's focus widget, but nothing that blocks a site, and no ambient sounds.
Your Google or Outlook calendar is displayed for free. With Plus, Momentum connects to task and development services, including Todoist, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do and GitHub. Hoome connects to none of them.
Momentum is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, and even on iPhone and iPad, as a Safari extension. With a free account, your data moves from one browser to another. Hoome also syncs your page for free, but only between computers using the same browser: Chrome and Firefox do not sync with each other, and there is no version for phones.
Momentum changes its landscape photo every day, without you having to do anything. That is its signature look.
Hoome replaces the new tab page with your shortcuts, tidied into folders like the apps on a phone, with a Dock for the ones you use every day and a keyboard search that filters your shortcuts as you type. The free version holds a hundred of them, in five folders. Momentum has links too, which you can pin to the page and, with Plus, group to open several sites in one click, but they are one tool among others on its page, with no folders.
Hoome's interface is translated into five languages, and a setting changes it without reloading the page. Momentum is only available in English.
Your shortcuts, folders, notes and tasks are saved in your browser, and sync goes through your browser's account, never through us. A copy of your desks only goes to hoome.dev if you are a Premium subscriber signed in to your account, and a switch turns it off. Hoome contains no usage analytics and no advertising. To show logos, the weather and the tides, it queries the icon services of Google and DuckDuckGo and the services of Open-Meteo, which only receive the site's domain name or the coordinates of your town; strict privacy mode switches these requests off.
Premium costs €1.99 per month, tax included, compared with $4.95 a month for Momentum Plus, in US dollars. On the yearly plan, Premium costs €11.99 at the launch price, then €14.99, compared with $39.95. The two subscriptions do not include the same things: Plus brings the focus tools and integrations described above, while Premium brings unlimited shortcuts and folders, animated backgrounds and the Premium widgets.
Your sites sorted into folders, a search that filters your shortcuts as you type, and the weather, tasks and notes alongside. See every feature
Momentum offers no export button: its privacy policy provides for an export of your data on request. 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.
Remove or turn off Momentum on the extensions page, since Chrome only gives the new tab page to one extension.
Yes, if what you want above all is to get to your sites. The free version of Hoome holds up to a hundred shortcuts in five folders, with the weather, tasks, notes and sync, without an account. If you are mainly looking for a focus dashboard, with a site blocker, ambient sounds and your task managers, Momentum Plus goes further.
Yes, with no time limit. Momentum Plus, the paid version, costs $4.95 a month or $39.95 a year, in US dollars, with a seven-day trial, card required.
No. According to its help centre, Momentum has no translations: its interface is in English, and support suggests using Chrome's translation feature in the meantime. Hoome is translated into French, English, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Neither requires one for the free version. Without an account, Momentum keeps your data in the browser, without syncing it. Hoome only asks for an account for Premium, and your shortcuts 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. If you turn on sync, they travel through your browser's account.
Open chrome://extensions, then click Remove under Momentum. According to its help centre, uninstalling the extension does not delete your Momentum account: if you have one, delete it from your profile as well.
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.