iGoogle ended on November 1, 2013. Google had announced it more than a year earlier, and people still search for a replacement more than a decade later. That says something about what it got right.

If you're one of them, the useful question isn't "what's the closest copy." It's which part of iGoogle you actually miss. There are three, and they lead to different tools.

What iGoogle was

A page you set as your homepage, filled with gadgets: weather, headlines from the feeds you picked, and whatever else you added. You could split it into tabs and give it a theme. It was the first thing you saw when the browser opened, and it was yours.

When it went away, igHome stepped in as a replacement, with an import from iGoogle and a page that worked much like it. Since October 1, 2026, igHome's site has been a news page with no sign-in, so that route has changed too. We wrote up separately what happened to igHome and the alternatives.

If you miss the gadgets

Weather, headlines, feeds you glance at without clicking anything. That's a widget dashboard, and it's a real thing people want.

Protopage is the closest in spirit: tabs of widgets and bookmarks, and it describes itself first as an RSS reader. Start.me is the other option, a page of feeds and widgets that you can spread across several pages.

We don't make widgets, so if this is what you miss, one of those is the better fit.

Some people used iGoogle mostly for something simpler: the sites they opened every morning, twenty or forty of them, all on one page, one click each.

That part is easier to replace than it looks, and it's worth being honest about how many sites you mean. If it's around ten, your browser's own new tab page is already enough. If it's thirty or more, you need names and groups, and a place for the sites you only open now and then.

If you miss it being the first thing you see

This one is about the browser, not the page. Any of these tools can be your homepage: in your browser's settings, set it to open a specific page on startup and paste in the address. It takes a minute and it's the step that makes a homepage feel like iGoogle did.

Where Abunch fits

We make one of these, so read this part with that in mind.

An Abunch board with sites grouped into named categories on the Active side.

Abunch is a personal homepage: your sites grouped into categories you name, on the page your browser opens to. Your Daily sites sit up front, and the Occasional ones live on a second desktop a click away, so nothing has to be deleted to keep the front page calm. Daily and Occasional appear in the app as Active and Reserved.

It has no gadgets, no feeds and no weather widget; a weather site is one more link. It's the links part of iGoogle, made into the whole page.

It imports browser bookmarks, and exports your categories and links as a file on every plan, including the free one. There are no ads. The free plan is a real homepage. Standard adds the second desktop, much more room, and publishing your categories to Explore. Current limits and prices are on the pricing page.

If you'd rather not start from an empty page, you can copy a ready-made collection and edit it. You can also build a board before making an account.

Best for

A widget dashboard (Protopage, Start.me): you miss the weather, the headlines and the feeds.

Abunch: you miss the page of links, and you have more sites than fit on a new tab.

Your browser's new tab: you only ever used about ten of them.

Whichever part you miss, make it the page your browser opens to. That was half of what made iGoogle feel like home.