Every new tab is a small decision point. Momentum uses it to ask what your main focus is today. WebCatalog New Tab, the WebCatalog browser extension, uses it to show you the apps you're about to open anyway.
Both replace a blank page with links, to-dos, weather, and focus tools over a beautiful background. Which one fits depends on what slows you down more: losing track of priorities, or losing time getting to the right app.
At a glance
| WebCatalog New Tab | Momentum | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Getting to your everyday apps fast, organized by folders and pages | Daily focus, goals, and inspiration |
| Links | Speed dial of apps and websites, with folders | Links panel |
| App catalog | 65,000+ apps with icons, plus any website | Add your own links |
| To-dos | Yes | Yes, with custom lists and task-app integrations |
| Focus tools | Focus mode with a daily goal and ambient sounds, Pomodoro | Daily focus, Focus Mode, Pomodoro, site blocker, soundscapes |
| Other widgets | Clock, weather, world clock, calculator, currency converter | Clock, weather, quote, mantra, calendar, world clocks, notes |
| Integrations | None | Todoist, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Google Tasks, and more |
| Wallpapers | Curated collection, plus your own images | A new photo every day, plus your own photos |
| Beyond the browser | Same library in WebCatalog Desktop | iPhone and iPad app |
| Browsers | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and other Chromium browsers |
What is WebCatalog New Tab?
WebCatalog New Tab puts your apps at the center of the new tab, as a speed dial you organize into folders and separate pages. Small widgets sit around the edges: a clock, live weather, to-dos, and a focus mode. Everything is stored in your WebCatalog account, so it follows you between browsers.
What is Momentum?
Momentum is one of the best-known new tab extensions, with millions of users. Each new tab greets you with a photo, a quote, and the question of what your main focus is today, alongside your to-dos, links, weather, and calendar.
Beyond that, it offers a full productivity suite: a Pomodoro timer, a site blocker, soundscapes, tab management, notes, world clocks, AI features, and integrations with task apps like Todoist, Asana, and Trello.
1. A question, or a launchpad
Momentum's new tab is about attention. The first thing you see is your focus for the day, and the dashboard keeps your goals and tasks in view, so each tab starts with intent.
WebCatalog's new tab is about getting to work. A support lead might open a tab and see Zendesk, the team's Slack, and the shared inbox in a "Support" folder, one click each. A second page holds the tools for a side project, so it never crowds the workday.
2. Focus and planning
Momentum goes deeper here: a full Focus Mode, a site blocker, Pomodoro, soundscapes, custom to-do lists, notes, and AI features. Its integrations are a real strength if your tasks already live in Todoist or Asana.
WebCatalog keeps it simple. Focus mode holds one daily goal on screen and plays ambient sounds, a Pomodoro timer paces your work, and to-dos sit next to your apps. A world clock, hourly and daily forecasts, a calculator, and a currency converter cover quick checks.
3. Where your links live
Momentum keeps links in a compact panel, so the photo and your focus stay center stage. That works well for a few favorites.
In WebCatalog, links are the page. You add them by searching a catalog of more than 65,000 apps with proper icons, or by entering any website, and folders keep a long list easy to scan. If you rely on twenty tools rather than five, that layout saves clicks every day.
4. Where each one follows you
Momentum follows you to your iPhone and iPad. WebCatalog follows you to your computer's desktop.
The library you build in the extension also appears in WebCatalog Desktop for Mac, Windows, and Linux, where each app can open in its own window with its own Dock or taskbar icon. The desktop app has a home of its own, too, with to-dos and a focus mode with a Pomodoro timer and ambient sounds, so the habit you started on your new tab carries over.
You don't need the desktop app to use the extension, but it's there when your apps need more than a browser tab.
Which one should you choose?
Momentum makes sense if you want your new tab to be a planning tool, with daily focus prompts, a site blocker, and your task manager connected.
Choose WebCatalog New Tab if you:
- Open a new tab mostly to get into an app
- Rely on more tools than fit in a small links panel
- Want to add apps by searching instead of copying URLs
- Want separate pages for the job and everything else
- Like the idea of the same apps on your desktop later
If your new tab should get you into your work faster, try WebCatalog New Tab.
