A Tabliss alternative for people who need real tasks and notes

Tabliss is not a product with a catch. It is free, it has no subscription, it doesn't mine your data, it's open source, and it looks better than most paid alternatives. If you are searching for a Tabliss alternative, it is almost never because Tabliss let you down — it's because you started using the to-do widget for real work and it wasn't built for that.

That is a reasonable reason to move, and it's the only one this page argues. On price, privacy, background options and raw customization, Tabliss is excellent and Slaet does not beat it.

The point where a to-do widget stops being enough

A widget assumes a short, flat list you clear by the end of the day. Work stops fitting that shape the moment any of these happen:

• You need a second and third list — work, home, a trip — kept apart rather than interleaved.
• A task needs an explanation attached to it: a link, a snippet, three lines of context you'll want in a week.
• Something has to resurface at a particular time, so remembering it yourself stops being the plan.
• Someone else needs to see the list, and screenshots have started circulating.
• You open the same browser on a second machine and want the same state there.

Slaet is built for that shape of work: tasks and rich-text notes together, reminders with natural-language dates, lists you can share with live collaboration, and optional sync. The guide covers each of those in detail.

Feature by feature

What you would be giving up

Being direct about it: Tabliss is open source and Slaet is not. If your reason for choosing Tabliss was that you can read the code that renders your new tab, no argument on this page should move you — that is a real guarantee and Slaet cannot offer the same one. What Slaet can say is narrower: nothing leaves your device unless you sign in, your browsing history is never read, and nothing is ever sold. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is stored and where.

The other hard limit is Firefox. Slaet runs on Chrome and Chromium browsers — Chrome, Brave and Edge — plus the web app. Tabliss supports Firefox. On Firefox this comparison is over before it starts.

Can you run both?

Not on the same browser: Chrome allows exactly one extension to own the new tab, so it's one or the other. A common split is Tabliss on Firefox and Slaet on Chrome, since Slaet's optional sync means the tasks are the same wherever you signed in. The web app at app.slaet.space also opens in any browser, Firefox included, without replacing anything.

Where Tabliss is the better tool

Tabliss is open source, built by volunteers, and takes a harder privacy line than almost anything in this category: no ads, no subscriptions, no data mining, and code you can actually read. It runs on Firefox as well as Chrome and Edge, supports 40-plus languages, and its background options — Unsplash, GIPHY, gradients, solid colours, your own images — plus its sheer volume of customization options beat Slaet's. If your priority is an auditable, beautiful, infinitely tweakable new tab, Tabliss is the right answer and you should keep using it.

And what Slaet gives up

Slaet is not open source, and it does not run on Firefox — Chrome, Brave, Edge and the web app only. Slaet also has fewer purely cosmetic knobs: there is no analogue clock, no GIPHY backgrounds, and no widget-by-widget layout editor. If you switch, you are trading customization breadth for task and note depth.

Questions people ask

Feature and pricing claims about Tabliss were read from tabliss.io and last verified in August 2026. Tabliss may have changed since — check their site for current details. Slaet is not affiliated with Tabliss, and Tabliss is a trademark of its respective owner.