Clock + widgets
Analog + digital clock, live weather with 3-hour forecast in °C or °F, AD/BS calendar with holidays and day details, reminders, quick notes, a daily focus prompt, focus pill and status bar.
Free Chrome new-tab extension · v1.4.0
Aura Tab
The iOS-style 3D glass new tab for Chrome.
Clock, weather, AD/BS calendar, reminders, notes, 150+ apps, 14 themes, toolbox, games and AI - plus adaptive typing, encrypted file transfers and a local-first Cowork Zone, wrapped in liquid glassmorphism.
The Chrome Web Store offers v1.4.0 Zones. The v1.5 items below are in development and are not in the store version.
- No account or sign-up
- No analytics, ads or tracking
- Local-first storage. Optional online features use third-party services
14theme families
150+curated apps
42theme modes
6offline games + chess
0accounts or trackers
Everything on one glass page
A local-first start page with no sign-up. The three Zones cards describe the current v1.4.0 release.
150+ app library
Curated shortcuts across AI, Google, Email, Dev, Hack, Microsoft, Design, Social, Music, Video, Shopping, Productivity and News - with folders, drag reorder, search and a macOS-style dock. Give any shortcut its own icon: automatic, letter, symbol, emoji or the site's favicon, in squircle, circle or square tiles.
14 glass themes
Mono, Glass 3D, Tactile, Liquid, Neu, Chrome, Parallax, Retro, Generative, Game, Aurora, Neon, Sunset and Holo - each in Light, Color and Dark modes, plus animated live wallpapers, glass blur and saturation controls, custom accents and wallpaper uploads.
Toolbox gadgets
Focus timer, calculator, a world clock with your own cities and a countdown to any date. Ask AI answers questions with your own OpenRouter key (free models, key is stored locally and sent only to OpenRouter).
Playable arcade
Five offline games plus full chess vs 5-level bot, local 2-player, and online play, chat, file sharing and calls over encrypted WebRTC. Version 1.4.0 replaces old short codes with secret 26-character invites; both people must update and create a fresh invite.
Typing Zone - v1.4.0
Adaptive lessons focus on weaker keys and unlock more letters. Words, quotes, code, symbols and custom text; timed tests, per-key speed and accuracy, keyboard heatmap, daily goal and local history. Inspired by progressive typing practice, with an original implementation.
Drop Zone - v1.4.0
Drag files or folders into an encrypted WebRTC room. Choose recipients, accept or decline files, cancel transfers and see speed, progress and ETA. Desktop Chrome can stream to a selected folder; memory fallback has a shared 256 MiB budget. Both tabs must stay open. Speed depends on devices, networks and whether a relay is needed, not a full-speed guarantee.
Cowork Zone - v1.4.0
Up to eight people share a room with presence, chat, reactions, a task board, concurrent notes, whiteboard, focus timer, links and files. Every device keeps its own copy. There is no central backup or verified member identity: protect the invite, trust every member and remember that deleting your copy does not delete theirs.
Zones release notes: tested in an unpacked Chrome extension, including public signaling and WebRTC between tabs. Independent cross-network devices and TURN fallback reliability are not yet verified. The disk-stream path was checked with browser filesystem handles, not a manually approved OS folder dialog. Browser permissions and available disk space still apply.
In development - v1.5 (not yet released)
The following is being built and tested in an unpacked extension. It is not in the store version and has no release date yet:
- Live video backgrounds - set any video as your wallpaper: upload a file or paste a direct mp4/webm link. It downloads only when you pick it, then stays saved on this device, with playback-speed control and reduced-motion respect. Gallery buttons open motionbgs.com pages (for example wallpapers 8925, 5028 and 10460) where you can download a video yourself; that site blocks automatic fetching and its licenses are between you and the site.
- Files tools - on-device image compress and convert, plus a download helper that fetches direct file links. Inspired by file-reducer and converter sites, running entirely in your browser.
- Typing, Drop and Cowork as their own Zones - each gets its own button and its own on/off toggle, so you can enable only what you use.
- Shorter 8-character invites with host approval - invites become 8 unambiguous letters and digits that are easy to read out. The invite only finds the session; it is not the encryption key. Every join shows the host or room creator the requester's name and waits for Accept or Decline before anything connects, and fresh encryption keys are still negotiated behind the scenes for each session. In Connect and chess, a 6-digit verification code compared over a call or in person helps spot anyone sitting between you; Drop and Cowork rooms have no code comparison - there, approval and keeping the invite secret are the checks.
- Optional profile - set a display name, emoji and color once; it stays on this device. Your name is shown to the host or room creator when you ask to join a session; once you are in, members see your name, and Drop/Cowork rooms also show your avatar and color. No account, nothing required.
- Games repairs - every arcade game and chess mode is being re-tested and fixed so each one genuinely plays.
Gallery
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Install in a minute
1
Get the extension
Install from the Chrome Web Store, or load unpacked: open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked and select the extension folder.
2
Set your weather city (optional)
Weather guesses an approximate city from your time zone. Type your own city for an exact forecast - the extension never asks for your device's location.
3
Make it yours
Open a new tab, press S for settings: pick a theme, wallpaper and PIN. Everything saves instantly in your browser.
Permissions it asks for - and why
- storage - saves your settings, shortcuts, reminders and notes locally.
- Host access - only to the services its features use: weather data (Open-Meteo), optional wallpaper photos (Picsum), optional favicon icons (DuckDuckGo, with Google fallback), your optional AI provider (OpenRouter), and public relays that exchange encrypted connection signaling for peer-to-peer connect.
Questions
Is Aura Tab really free?
Yes - every feature is free, with no account and no premium tier. Optional AI answers use your own OpenRouter key on free models.
Where is my data stored?
Dashboard and typing data are local by default; some preferences can sync through your Chrome profile. Cowork content is copied to connected room members. Optional features contact third parties, and this website's AI sends questions through its server-side endpoint. See the Privacy policy for each path.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Clock, reminders, notes, apps, themes, games, chess-vs-bot and Typing work offline. Saved Cowork copies remain on your device. Live collaboration, transfers, weather, live photos and AI need an internet connection.
Are online features fully server-free?
No. Aura does not run a file-storage server, but public MQTT brokers exchange encrypted signaling. STUN helps find a direct connection and TURN may relay encrypted traffic. Providers and peers can see network metadata. In v1.4.0, a secret 26-character invite is the room key: anyone with it can join. A hashed broker topic does not reveal the invite itself.
Which Chrome versions are supported?
Chrome 111 and newer on desktop. Folder-to-disk saving depends on the File System Access API and browser approval. Recent Chrome is recommended for Zones.
How do I reset everything?
Settings → Data → Reset wipes local data and restores defaults. Export a backup first from the same panel.
Support
Found a bug, want a feature, or need help? Write to us - we reply from [email protected].
Privacy policy
Updated November 12, 2026. Covers the current v1.4.0 Zones release and lists v1.5 items in development.
The short version
- No accounts. The extension never asks you to sign up.
- No tracking. No analytics, no ads, no beacons, no fingerprinting.
- No data sale. Optional online features send the data needed to the services or peers you choose, as described below.
- Local storage by default. Settings, shortcuts, reminders and dashboard notes are stored in Chrome's storage on your device (preferences optionally sync through your own Chrome profile, which is governed by Google's Chrome Sync policies).
What is stored, and where
| Data | Where | Synced? |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance and layout preferences | chrome.storage.sync | Yes, via your Chrome profile |
| Shortcuts, folders, reminders, notes, wallpapers you upload | chrome.storage.local | No |
| OpenRouter API key and model choice | chrome.storage.local | Never synced |
| Weather forecast cache (30 minutes) | chrome.storage.local | No |
| Typing settings, per-key statistics, daily practice and history | localStorage | No |
| Cowork invites, room list, names, chat, tasks, notes, whiteboard, focus and links | localStorage on each participant device | Shared directly with connected room members |
| File-transfer payloads | Temporary memory or receiver-selected disk destination | Sent to selected peers, not stored by Aura |
Dashboard data can be exported/imported/reset through Settings > Data. Typing has its own history/settings controls. Cowork rooms can be removed from this device using Forget on the room list; this does not remove copies on other devices. Uninstalling removes extension-origin local data, but not downloaded files. Cowork invites and local copies are not encrypted at rest by Aura.
Permissions
- storage: required to save your preferences and content.
- Host access is limited to the optional services below; the extension talks to them only when you use the related feature.
Third-party services (optional features)
- Open-Meteo (weather): your approximate coordinates or a city you choose are sent to api.open-meteo.com / geocoding-api.open-meteo.com to fetch forecasts. No account or key.
- Picsum (live wallpaper): a random photo is fetched from picsum.photos only if you pick the "Live photo" wallpaper.
- DuckDuckGo and Google favicon services (shortcut icons): if you set a
shortcut's icon to "Favicon", that site's hostname (for example
example.com, never a full URL, path or query) is requested from icons.duckduckgo.com, with www.google.com/s2/favicons as a fallback when DuckDuckGo has no icon. This happens only for shortcuts you explicitly set to Favicon, only over HTTPS, and only for http/https sites. If both services fail or the address is not a website, the icon falls back to a local letter monogram. Nothing is cached on our side; the services may see the hostname and your IP address when the image loads. - OpenRouter (Ask AI): only if you paste your own API key, your messages go to openrouter.ai under your own account and their privacy policy. The key is stored locally and never synced.
- Public MQTT brokers (Connect, Drop, Cowork and online chess): encrypted connection signaling passes through EMQX, HiveMQ, Mosquitto or Eclipse public brokers. New invites contain 26 cryptographically random characters. A domain-separated SHA-256 topic identifier hides the invite itself; AES-GCM authenticates/encrypts signaling using an invite-derived key. Brokers can see topic identifiers, IP addresses, timing and traffic volume. They do not receive the invite or an intentional plaintext copy of content. Public brokers are third parties and may log metadata, reject connections or become unavailable.
- STUN and TURN services (WebRTC features): Google/Cloudflare STUN helps discover reachable addresses. A public Metered OpenRelay TURN fallback may relay encrypted traffic when a direct connection fails. Thus online features are not fully server-free, and not every connection is direct. WebRTC encrypts data with DTLS and calls with its media encryption. These services and connected peers can see network-address information; TURN operators can see traffic metadata but not the intended encrypted contents.
- Other room participants: every invite holder can join, read and edit shared Cowork content and receive files you send. Names/avatars are not verified identities. Invite holders may save or forward content. Keep invites secret, verify recipients using another trusted channel and create a fresh room if an invite leaks. A room lock is not identity verification or remote deletion. Closing a tab stops its live connection, not other participants' local copies.
Typing and file safety
Typing input/statistics are processed locally and are not sent by the Typing Zone. Do not paste sensitive text into a shared Cowork note or chat unless all participants may receive it. Incoming text is rendered as text, links are restricted to HTTP/HTTPS, and files require acceptance unless you enable room auto-accept. File names/relative paths are sanitized; files are not automatically opened or executed. Downloaded files can still contain harmful content. Transfer limits and browser restrictions apply; no unlimited-speed or unlimited-size guarantee is made.
Protocol compatibility
This update changes the Connect/chess discovery namespace and replaces short codes with secret 26-character invites. Both ends must update and create new invites. There is no insecure legacy fallback. These safeguards reduce unintended broker-subscriber access; they do not provide verified human identity or protection from an invited malicious member.
Changes
Any change to this policy will ship with an extension update and be noted in the changelog.
Contact
Jitesh Prakash Chaudhary - https://auratab.jiteshprakash.com.np
This website and its optional AI
This website is hosted on Vercel. Hosting providers process network metadata needed to serve requests. The website assistant is separate from the extension's Ask AI: its questions and recent conversation turns go to a same-origin server endpoint and, when configured, Gemini, Groq or OpenRouter under their policies. API keys stay in server environment variables, not browser code. If a provider is unavailable or rate-limited, the assistant falls back to local product information. Do not send secrets or sensitive personal data. No analytics or advertising trackers are added by this site. The contact form opens your own email app and does not send automatically.