Paneglow

Your own pictures, glowing through every new tab.

Paneglow plays the images, GIFs and videos you choose as a wallpaper on your new tab page, and on the sites you pick. It all stays on your computer: no account, no uploads, no tracking.

Add to Chrome

Free to use. Paneglow Pro adds more for $2.99 a month.

Make the browser feel like yours

Import files, whole folders, a link, or any picture or video you right-click on the web. Then choose where each one plays.

Paneglow's library: collections in a sidebar, and a grid of landscape wallpapers with import buttons and a search box above.
Your library, on your deviceCollections, tags, favorites, and a search that knows color, brightness and length. Duplicates are skipped.
A blog page with a soft pink landscape layered over it, and Paneglow's popup set to Overlay at 35% opacity.
Over the sites you pickA layer at the opacity you choose. Clicks, scrolling and shortcuts work exactly as before.
The same blog page with the landscape behind its text, and Paneglow's popup set to Backdrop.
Or behind their contentThe wallpaper behind the page, with its text kept readable, and fixes for YouTube, Reddit, GitHub and more.
Paneglow's shader wallpapers: an aurora, silk, a lava lamp, dusk hills, a nebula, rain on glass, a moonlit sea and two that animate your own picture.
Shader wallpapersAn aurora, rain on glass, a moonlit sea and more, drawn live by your graphics chip. Nothing is downloaded.

Yours, and it stays that way

Free stays free

Nothing free ever moves behind a payment, and there are never ads. Paneglow Pro only adds new things.

Check it yourself

Settings lists everything Paneglow can access, with Remove for anything optional, and every request it has made.

Read the privacy policy

Free to use. Pro if you want more.

Free

$0, for good

  • Your images, GIFs and videos on the new tab, and over or behind any site you pick
  • Collections, smart collections and search
  • A new wallpaper on each tab, on a timer, by time of day, or at sunrise and sunset
  • Crossfades, blur, dim and tint
  • A clock, search and quick links on the new tab
  • Packs to share, whole-library backups and settings sync
  • A sampler of shader wallpapers
  • A video wallpaper's own sound, on the new tab and the sites you choose

Paneglow Pro

$2.99 a month, or $24.99 a year (about $2.08 a month)

  • Every shader wallpaper, and new ones as they arrive
  • 2.5D depth for your still photos
  • A soundscape that plays on as you browse: rain, wind, waves, a fire, a café
  • Film grain, vignettes and color grades, with wipe, iris and blinds transitions
  • More clock faces and fonts
  • Scenes, and wallpapers for each tab group

Subscribe in the extension, from Settings → Paneglow Pro, and cancel there any time: Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for. Your first monthly payment, or any yearly one, is refunded in full if you ask within 14 days (refund policy).

Prices are in US dollars. Tax may be added at checkout, depending on where you live.