A Chrome extension by Jeffrey Blum

Visual Bookmarks

Your new tab is the page you visit a hundred times a day. This one shows your own bookmarks as image cards you can search, sort, and open without touching the mouse.

V 6.4  ·  Free Scroll Designed in New York
The product

Scroll runs the demo

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All bookmarks

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Control

Built for your hands

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Instant search

One shortcut from anywhere on the page. Type a title, a domain, or a folder name, then press the down arrow to drop straight into the results.

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Grid or list

Cards when you want to recognize, rows when you want to scan. One key flips the whole page and your choice is remembered.

Favorites

Star a bookmark and it earns the acid corner. The Favorites view keeps your daily sites one keystroke away.

Zero mouse

Arrows move the selection ring, Enter opens, and Cmd Enter opens in the background. Undo covers you when you delete.

In the wild

Cards when you look, rows when you scan

Visual Bookmarks grid view of a Favorites folder with image cards Visual Bookmarks list view with thumbnails, domains, and visit counts Visual Bookmarks full screen view with the sidebar collapsed
Try it

Type on this page

This board is wired to your keyboard right now. Every key you press lights up here, the same way the extension listens on every new tab.

Go ahead. Press something.
Privacy

Nothing leaves your browser

No account

There is nothing to sign up for. Install it, open a tab, done. It cannot know who you are.

No tracking

No analytics, no telemetry, no pixels, no third party scripts. Your activity is not measured by anyone, including me.

No servers

There is no backend. Your bookmarks, favorites, and settings live in Chrome on your device and are never collected, sold, or shared.

Bookmarks

Reads the bookmarks you already have so it can show them, and edits them only when you rename or delete one. They stay in Chrome.

History

Reads visit counts on your device, only to order the Most Visited view. Your history is never stored by the extension or sent anywhere.

Storage

Keeps your preferences, favorites, and a cache of preview images locally so new tabs open instantly. All of it lives on your machine.

Site icons

Shows each site's icon using Chrome's own built-in favicon service. Nothing is requested from me.

The one honest footnote: preview screenshots are rendered by a public image service, which receives the addresses of bookmarked sites in order to photograph them. Prefer a fully local setup? Turn screenshots off in settings and cards use site icons instead. Nothing else ever goes out.

Make the tab yours

Free · 190 KB · Loads unpacked in about two minutes · the guide walks you through it

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