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25Card types, 14 of them free
$34Per year for Pro, free to start
7Card styles, in light or dark
SyncAcross every device you sign in on
WebRuns in any modern browser
2026Launched

The pitch

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Portara is a premium personal home page for your browser: set it as your start page, or keep it open all day as your browser hub. It’s a calm, fully customizable glass dashboard with 25 card types: live weather, RSS feeds, stock prices, world clocks, sticky notes, bookmarks, and more. Unlike cluttered productivity dashboards or dated new tab extensions, Portara is built around looks first: a personal internet home you actually enjoy opening. It runs in the browser, syncs across devices, and is free to start, with a Pro plan at $34 a year. A browser extension that opens it in every new tab is coming soon.

One line

Portara is the start page you keep open all day: a glass dashboard you actually want to look at.

Who it’s for

Anyone who opens a browser dozens of times a day and deserves better than the default.

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Design-conscious users

People who care about their digital surroundings. They notice when something looks dated, and they would rather look at something beautiful than something that merely works.

💻

Remote workers

Professionals who live in their browser. Many keep Portara pinned as an all-day tab, a home base for bookmarks, live data, notes, and tasks. Others just want their start page to feel like theirs.

⚙️

Developers and creatives

People who build things and expect their tools to match their taste. Portara has depth under the hood: multiple pages, custom HTML cards, calendar feeds, and live data.

🧘

Minimalists

People who find the default start page noisy. Portara’s Zen preset is a clock, a quote, and a wallpaper. Nothing else, unless you add it.

Why Portara exists

Portara was built by Chris, a developer who got tired of every browser’s start page looking like it was designed in 2005. The existing options (speed dials, motivational quote pages, and minimal clocks) all felt dated, rigid, and visually uninspiring. None of them treated that page as what it is: the page you see more than any other.

“I wanted something I’d actually enjoy opening — a personal cockpit with live data, clean design, and the flexibility to look exactly the way I wanted on every device I use. My phone, my desktop at home, my work laptop. I wanted one place that felt like mine.”

Chris, creator of Portara

That’s Portara. Built first as a personal project, polished into a product. The name comes from the architectural term for a grand gateway or portal, because your home page is a small doorway into wherever you’re going next.

Screenshots

Real captures of the shipped app, with invented data. All are approved for editorial use.

A Portara home page: a quote, bookmarks, a task list, sunny mountain weather, a sticky note, a live astronomy globe with moon phases, a stock heatmap, a Nixie tube clock, a world clock, and an RSS feed, under a search bar and five page tabs

Home

The everyday dashboard: weather, the sky, markets, tasks, notes, and feeds.

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A Portara family page: a month calendar with family and school events, partly sunny weather over a suburban house, a countdown to a seventh birthday, a weekly kids schedule, a pancake recipe on an index card, a grocery list with some items checked, and a photo of a golden retriever in autumn leaves

Family

Soccer at ten, a birthday next weekend, pancakes first. The family page holds the calendar everyone checks, the recipe everyone asks for, and the list you check off at the store.

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A Portara work page: a stock watchlist with sparklines, an AI news digest, world clock tiles for four cities, a daily schedule of meetings and focus time, work app bookmarks, tech headlines with photos, and a focus timer counting down

Work

The market is open, the team is online, and the day is already on a grid. Everything you would open six tabs for, in the one you already have.

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A Portara trip page: a split-flap countdown to Kyoto, a five-day Kyoto forecast, a packing list, clocks for Boulder and Kyoto, a five-day itinerary on a legal pad, travel bookmarks, and a photo of red torii gates in a forest

Kyoto

A trip gets its own page. The countdown, the forecast over there, what is packed and what is not, and a plan for every day, all in one tab until you board.

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A Portara night page: a live astronomy globe showing North America at night with sun and moon data, clear night weather over mountains, live hockey scores, a neon quote, a virtual cat pet on a space background, a meteor shower countdown, stargazing articles, and a Libra horoscope

Night sky

Some pages are just for fun. A live globe with tonight’s Moon, the late games, a horoscope, and a small pet who would like a snack.

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A Portara page with light-theme glass cards over a city skyline wallpaper

Light mode

The same cards in the light theme, showing the glass style beyond dark mode.

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Brand assets

Approved for editorial and press use. Please don’t modify the logo or use these assets to imply an endorsement without permission.

Portara wordmarkPNG · White on transparent↓ DownloadApp icon, largePNG · Square↓ DownloadApp icon, 256 pxPNG · For articles and listings↓ DownloadScreenshot: HomeWebP · 3200 × 2072, approved for editorial use↓ DownloadScreenshot: FamilyWebP · 3200 × 2072, approved for editorial use↓ DownloadScreenshot: WorkWebP · 3200 × 2072, approved for editorial use↓ DownloadScreenshot: KyotoWebP · 3200 × 2072, approved for editorial use↓ DownloadScreenshot: Night skyWebP · 3200 × 2072, approved for editorial use↓ DownloadScreenshot: Light modeWebP · 1920 × 1218, approved for editorial use↓ Download

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