vToad New Tab Page - Custom Live Wallpaper Engine, and more!
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- Extension status: Featured
Upload your own live wallpapers for your vToad New Tab Page, the experience is yours!
🚀 IN BETA — NEW THEME COLORS, REQUESTED FEATURES, AND MORE!
vToad turns your New Tab into a visual playground by letting you upload your own videos, GIFs, and images as live wallpapers. It has pleasing and satisfying UI while being customizable and made to feel personal — let the theme colors match your media automatically or set your own theme colors to make it yours!
(Brave, Opera & Opera GX users — please scroll to the bottom for setup notes and Opera video guide.)
I’m a solo dev who built this with love, based on feedback and feature requests from users like you. If you enjoy vToad, leaving a review or sharing it means the world. Thank you! 💚
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🆕 What's New in vToad 0.0.0.5 (6/21/2025)
Major additions & improvements:
🐸 Image & GIF Upload Support — Not just video anymore!
🐸 Manual Background Preview — Instantly see what your tab will look like without refreshing
🐸 Auto Theme Now Supports Light or Dark Mode!
🐸 Manual Theme Upgrade — Pick a Main Color and an Accent Color
🐸 Clock Customization — Move it anywhere, resize it however you like
🐸 Search Bar Change — Now uses your browser’s default engine (due to updated Chrome extension policies)
🐸 Quality of Life Tweaks — smoother sliders, smarter auto-theme colors, updated popup
🐸 Btw I created a reddit page for any support, wallpaper resources, and for just sharing your new tabs pages! Check it out at r/vtoad! <3
🌌 Cosmic Tip: You can drag and rearrange your shortcut icons!
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💡 Core Features
🐸 Upload your own videos, images, or GIFs as animated New Tab backgrounds
🐸 Sets your background to a random uploaded media upon opening a new tab
🐸 Full visual customization — toggle or style each UI element your way
🐸 Use the browser’s default search engine in the minimalist search bar
🐸 Manage your top sites and add custom ones manually
🐸 Blacklist or remove unwanted shortcuts
🐸 12hr/24hr time, optional date display, and now: clock position + size
🐸 Distraction-free mode — toggle off any element to focus on your background
🐸 Fast, lightweight, and always improving!
⚠️ NOTES FOR BRAVE / OPERA USERS
Brave: You must enable this flag to add media:
brave://flags/#file-system-access-api
Then restart your browser.
Opera / Opera GX: Extra setup is required to use third-party New Tab pages (like vToad).
Watch this quick guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUNyTbkiwc
💚 Final Word
That’s everything in this update! Thank you for using vToad and taking the time to read through. If you're enjoying it, a quick review or feedback would make a huge difference.
— Made with care by a solo dev 🐸✨
Latest reviews
- Isaac Hetherington
- This is great and I love it. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND A GOOD ANIMATED WALLPAPER FOR CHROME FOR AGES!!! Please just add the files sound though and why cant I add my own shortcuts? OVERALL 5 OUT OF 5!!!!
- X Killer
- good
- Kelly Nguyen
- cute pre good
- zayar htunhtun
- It is the best live wallpaper extension but the the problem is you can't customize the size of the live wallpaper that I applied. That's the only weakness in my opinion.
- Sobia Fatima
- It's amazing i needed it so much ,its hands down the best live wallpaper app🙌✨
- AIDEN TAHLIER
- cool
- Salma Jeanine
- loved it thx u ate <3
- Ashraf Alshawsh
- Omg thank you for making this, its so minimalistic. also dope frog
- NADIA ALILA KRASIVA
- so good
- Abhay Sharma
- nice very good best app
- Vivek
- The best live wallpaper extension for chrome and most important it's free to add our own wallpaper
- F Thernest Tenorio
- Perfection. The simple UI and accesibility of it makes this extentionn one of the best out there.
- Ze'mirah Thomas
- i looooooove it some much it is like so cute
- AmNotAWoofingCat
- dude i love it so much 11/10 so many features and it gets the job done with no performance slowing down or any sort of lag and its damn aesthetic
- ʀ๏ᴄᴋᴇʀ A̷ᴢᴀʀ
- It's good !
- Kyryl shamrai
- good
- Elizabeth Mooney
- AMAZING, having an issue rn where the videos get removed and have to go back and add them back in manually, but other than that this is easily my favorite new tab page!
- carinmeai
- good job!
- Hunter Gaming
- using it for quite some time and it is just the best in its genre fully customizable and no upper cap for video upload loved it so so much!!!!
- Sofie Srikaew
- amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. thank you! the ui is really sleek and now i can finally be greeted with a cool video everytime i open my browser <3
- mdhzwn
- Hey, this is a great extension! I really like it. One feature I’d love to see: the ability to show my bookmarks bar only on the new tab page—just like the default Chrome new tab. I know I can press Ctrl + Shift + B to toggle the bookmarks bar, but that affects all tabs. Would it be possible to add an option to display the bookmarks bar specifically on new tabs? That would make this extension perfect! Thanks!
- Polina Rudinskaya
- such a nice extension! i've been using it for more than 2 years now and everytime my friends ask how i did those cute live wallpapers haha i just love this. also, after the recent update it's much more convenient to customize everything (and the options are very smart too!).
- Pedro Hammett
- Light, sleek and the ability to add your own images really brings a customization to chrome i was missing. The dev is quick to respond to suggestions and willing to give your idea's a go. That's always a nice touch. 5/5
- Kaleb Shirts
- Does as advertised, well made, good looking UI, and getting updated. Love supporting smaller devs!
- Dumitru Piron
- doesnt work on opera, yeah i used chrome addon page to add it to opera, still nothing, brave,chrome and firefox works tho, weird
- Kaden Cardenas
- this is so amazing and it works. GET IT NOWW
- Vrajrajsinh Chauhan
- nice
- Andrew John Jr. Cu
- Absolutely good high quality I'd reccomend this to other people
- Deepak Shah
- Wish I could give more than 5-stars here, really a nice tool - it's something that I never thought I knew! Too good!
- Zoe Kaplanidou
- it doesnt work?how do i use it? it asks me for a coffee?
- Phúc Lê Hoàng
- Nice, bro. Thank you a lot. Good luck guys.
- Erikzap! Contact.
- Hi! I think it should be possible to add images too, but is too cool and its the best!
- Tuấn Khải Phạm
- good
- Blake Lowry
- Amazing app, especially how you can upload a video. One suggestion would be that sound could be included but then even still, GREAT APP. (If I may have rated this 0 then of course it would have been a mistake)
- Movies Store HD
- Awesome
- vampher
- i cant use it
- Valerio Akashic
- Would be probably great if we can change the UI color like the Searchbar etc... Overall its great!!! I luv it
- Obscure Sounds
- Exactly what i was looking for, i can upload 4k videos as the wallpaper on chrome would give more stars if i could
- Dhruvi Gupta
- VERY GOOD
- Brennan van der Jagt
- Installed it it did not let me do anything you can only leave a review, donate, follow the owner. i hate the extension.
- Jacob Larscheidt
- I love the customizability of everything in there. I used to have it and then got rid of it because that customization wasn't there, but now that it's here DEFINITELY my new tab of choice. Well done
- Eliza Vtuber
- Very nice! Recommend it!
- Sharkawi Sa'dun
- Honestly this is Perfect for me. Very good extension. though i would like to have a feature that lets me switch wallpapers without switching to another tab.
- arnob.anika.weeding
- not bad for a new extension... But since it's not been updated for about 6 months, I can't really say anything good. Please update this dev <3. It will be a really good extension if it's been fully developed
- Anjna Biswas
- Not bad if it has search bar remove function then it will be better
- Robert
- cant remove all the objects on the screen
- Audrey Pimentel
- there's no option to remove the shortcuts and hide the settings
- Freddy Martinez
- Excellent feature, sexy baby
- Freddy Martinez
- Excellent feature, sexy baby