Every new tab, an award-winning website.
Winner of the Day replaces Chrome's new tab with one judged winner from Web Design Awards — the full screenshot, who built it, what it's built with, and a link straight to it. One pick a day, rotating at midnight UTC.
- No account
- No tracking
- One permission
- Chrome · Edge · Arc · Brave
Inspiration with receipts.
Six things the tab does, and a long list of things it deliberately doesn't.
- 01
A judged winner, not a random link
Every site on the tab has been through the Web Design Awards jury and the published rubric. You're looking at work that scored, not whatever an algorithm surfaced.
- 02
The screenshot at its real resolution
Winner screenshots come back anywhere from 1100 to 2500px wide. The tab paints them inside a browser frame at roughly 1:1 rather than stretching them full-bleed, so nothing arrives soft or cropped to mush.
- 03
Who made it, and what it's built with
Category, agency, judged score and the detected tech stack sit next to the shot — the context that turns a nice screenshot into something you can actually learn from.
- 04
Two clicks out, one to keep going
One click opens the winning site, one opens our full review. When a single pick isn't enough, Shuffle walks the rest of the archive.
- 05
A quiet clock, and nothing else
A greeting and the time, and no widgets, feeds, to-do lists or sponsored tiles competing for the first thing you look at.
- 06
It works offline
A set of winners ships inside the extension, so the tab paints instantly on first open and never leaves you staring at a spinner on a bad connection.
Installed in about ten seconds.
- 01
Add it to Chrome
Free, from the Chrome Web Store. Chrome shows its own one-time "Keep it?" prompt because the extension replaces the new tab — that's Chrome, not us.
- 02
Open a new tab
The day's winner is already there. It's the same pick for everyone, and it rotates at midnight UTC — come back tomorrow and it's a different site.
- 03
Shuffle when you want more
One button pulls another winner from the archive. Nominate a site straight from the tab when you've built something worth judging.
Built to stay out of the way.
A new tab page sees everything you do next. This one was built so that doesn't matter.
The only host the extension can talk to — because that's where the winners come from, and nowhere else.
No sign-up, no login, no email. Install it and it works.
Nothing is collected and nothing is transmitted. There is no third-party advertising on the tab.
Its only stored state is two localStorage keys: the day's cached winners, and which offer you dismissed.
From time to time the tab carries an offer from Web Design Awards itself — dismissible permanently with one click, and never a third-party ad. Full details in our privacy policy.
Your site could be the tab.
Every site the extension shows is a judged winner. Submit yours, and if the jury agrees it joins the pool the extension draws from — with a permanent award page, a published score, and a badge you can embed.
Before you install.
Is the Winner of the Day extension free?
Yes. It is free to install and free to use, with no account, no trial and no paid tier. Submitting your own site for an award is a separate, paid process on webdesignawards.io.
Does it work in browsers other than Chrome?
Yes. It is built on Manifest V3 and runs in any Chromium browser — Chrome, Edge, Arc and Brave all install it from the same Chrome Web Store listing.
How often does the featured winner change?
Once a day. The pick rotates at midnight UTC and is deterministic, so everyone with the extension sees the same winner on the same day. The Shuffle button pulls other winners from the archive whenever you want more.
What data does the extension collect?
None. It has no analytics, no trackers and no ad networks, and it transmits nothing about you. It stores two values in your browser's own localStorage — the day's cached winner list and any promotional offer you have dismissed — and neither ever leaves your machine.
Why does it ask for permission to access webdesignawards.io?
The new tab reads published award data from two endpoints on webdesignawards.io: the daily featured winner and the pool of winners behind the Shuffle button. The winners feed does not return CORS headers, so the host permission is what allows the request. The permission is scoped to that single domain, and the requests are unauthenticated reads of public award data.
Can my site appear on the new tab?
Yes — every site the extension shows is a judged Web Design Awards winner. Submit your site for an award, and if it wins it joins the pool the extension draws from, alongside its award page and score.
How do I remove it?
Open chrome://extensions, find Winner of the Day and click Remove. Chrome restores its default new tab page immediately.
Open a tab. See something worth stealing from.
Free, no account, and gone the moment you want it gone.