Cove — Calm New Tab by Adarsh Kushwah

Cove is a calm corner of the web: a new-tab workspace that stays quiet, keeps your data on your device, and asks for nothing — no account, no tracking, no Cove server.

What it does

• Discover — 11 curated RSS/Atom feeds and 3 keyless public APIs (Spaceflight News, DEV.to, Hacker News), ranked on-device. Add your own feeds, or turn Discover off entirely.
• Reader — Articles extracted locally and cached for offline reading, up to 120 stories. No paywall bypass, ever.
• Search — 14 one-click provider presets, prefix and suffix !bangs, custom HTTPS search templates, and local instant answers for math, units, dates, and conversions.
• Focus — Pomodoro timer, a site blocker that adds friction rather than security, and procedural Focus Sound generated on-device. No audio files, no streams.
• Tabs — Saved sessions, tab triage, and quick links, all local.
• Atmosphere — Four stages from a full bento dashboard to pure stillness, with themes, accents, wallpapers, and self-hosted fonts.

Built to stay small

166.2 KB gzipped, zero runtime dependencies, with a CI-enforced 170 KB size budget. 66 unit tests and a strict content security policy. Your notes, sessions, settings, and saved articles live in your browser profile and can be exported as JSON.

Privacy, stated plainly

Cove collects nothing — declared in the manifest itself, which states it collects no data. Network requests go only to the publishers and public services you use — news feeds, Open-Meteo for weather, DuckDuckGo for search suggestions — and each can be switched off in Settings. The full network ledger is in the privacy policy.

Honest limits

Weather and feeds need a network connection. The site blocker is friction, not a security boundary. Focus Sound is procedurally generated sound, not a medical device. Requires Firefox 140 or later.