navius

navius — your bookmarks, beautifully organized

Turn every new tab into a curated start page. navius replaces Chrome's default new tab with a tidy dashboard for your bookmarks — one that's actually nice to look at and built to keep your data safe across every device.

✨ A start page worth opening
- Organize bookmarks into custom groups with drag & drop
- Quick-access grid for the sites you reach for every day
- Dark and light themes, with adjustable content size
- Import from Chrome, Edge, or JSON — export anytime, your data is yours
🔒 Private by default
- Works fully offline — your data lives on your device
- Cloud sync is opt-in, never mandatory
- No tracking, no ads, no selling your data
- Self-service account deletion, anytime (we mean it)
☁️ Sync that actually works
- Sign in once, and your bookmarks follow you across every browser and device
- Built on a lossless sync engine — concurrent edits, offline changes, and even deletions reconcile cleanly, so nothing gets silently dropped
🎨 Made to be yours
- Choose between dark and light themes
- Tunable content size for any screen or eyesight
- A minimal interface that gets out of your way
- Perfect for anyone who opens a hundred tabs a day and wants the first one to feel like home

What's new in 1.3.0 — Photo backgrounds
Every new tab can now showcase beautiful, high-resolution photos from Pixabay.
- Filter by tag — up to 5 keywords to find the perfect image; OR mode casts a wide net, AND mode narrows results
- Color filtering — click any color pill to show photos dominated by that hue
- Category browsing — narrow by category (nature, buildings, health, technology, and more)
- Editor's choice toggle — show only Pixabay's hand-picked premium photos
- Sort by popularity or date — choose what matters to you
- Auto-rotating backgrounds — photos cycle on a timer so every tab feels fresh
- Orientation-aware — automatically picks landscape or portrait photos based on your viewport; adapts on device rotation
- Efficient API proxying — your Pixabay API key stays server-side, cached for 10 minutes
Bug fixes
- Filter parameters (colors, category, editors choice, sort order) now correctly reach the Pixabay API — the proxy rewrite was missing from the production server