SwiftDial

What is SwiftDial?

SwiftDial is a privacy-friendly Chrome extension that replaces the home page and new tab with a customizable speed dial for your favorite websites. It offers a wide range of customization options, including site thumbnails, background colors, menu themes, site groups, and more. Users can add, remove, edit, and reorder sites, as well as use custom images, create multi-color gradients, and personalize the appearance of the home page with mouse hover effects. SwiftDial is available for popular web browsers and allows users to backup/restore their settings and sites, as well as manage the extension's permissions. With support for multiple languages and the option to use with a mouse, keyboard, or touch devices, SwiftDial provides a user-friendly and customizable browsing experience.

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Extension stats

By: https://nscript.ru

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.76 (25)

Version: 53 (Last updated: 2024-09-19)

Creation date: 2021-03-09

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides new tab: Yes

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
alarms
contextMenus
scripting
declarativeContent

Size: 385.02K

Email: ma*****@nscript.ru

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 22714 ▲ 46

Other rankings

#102 in Functionality & UI ▼ 2

#25 in choose keyword 4

#26 in tabs backup & restore keyword 14

#86 in dial keyword 41

#114 in start page keyword 33 ▼ 15

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

SwiftDial (v52)

4.00

(6) 759

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Extension summary

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SwiftDial replaces the homepage and new tab page of your browser with a speed dial to which you can add your favorite websites and set up how they look with the help of the simple and intuitive settings.

YOU CAN ALWAYS: 📱 Install and use SwiftDial with popular (desktop and some mobile) web browsers { 🔗 nscript.ru/swiftdial/browsers } ➕ Add, remove, edit and reorder sites on the homepage ✔️ Open, close, switch to auto-hidden mode and then invoke menu panels 🖼️ Use custom images as site thumbnails 🎨 Set site background color and opacity 📐 Set the dimensions and roundness of site tiles as well as the gaps between them 📐 Set the width of the site tiles area, spacing from the edges of the homepage and site tiles alignment 📐 Choose whether site tiles should always preserve their dimensions or adapt to browser window size 🔲 Add site border and set its width and color 📝 Add site titles and set their position, size, color, as well as the color and opacity of their background ✨ Liven up the appearance of the home page with the mouse hover effects ✔️ Choose where the main menu is supposed to be on the homepage - top, bottom, vertically on the left side or vertically on the right side

User reviews

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Pros

Highly customizable settings and layout
Ability to back up bookmarks locally
Clean and user-friendly interface
Lightweight and easy to use compared to other speed dial extensions
Support for personalized images and configurations

Cons

Lacks a search bar for quick access
Icons cannot be dragged and pinned in specific locations
Group names do not display clearly in certain views
No ability to fix the number of columns for thumbnails
Limited options for font selection in settings

Most mentioned

The ability to customize the layout and appearance
The local backup feature for bookmarks
Concerns about group display and naming issues
Desire for additional features like search and drag-and-drop functionality
Positive comparisons to other speed dial extensions

Recent reviews

Smash FoDa Cash, 2024-09-25

this is so absolutely amazing. No problems what so ever! Speed dial stopped working so I needed to find something else...WOW this is way better, cleaner, and more efficient with no problems!