What Infinity New Tab is for
Infinity is a launcher. You open a tab and you get a grid of flat, round icons: the sites you visit, in the order you put them, in folders when there are too many. Its site sums the idea up in four words, "Redefine your new tab", and its store listing promises "minimalist aesthetics, one-stop service experience and less content for more features".
The people who love it navigate by muscle memory. A fixed grid of icons beats a bookmarks bar, and after a week your hand knows where everything is. Around that grid Infinity adds what a launcher needs and stops: a wallpaper a day, weather, a to-do list, a notepad, an unread Gmail count, your history and your extension list.
It has scale, and it has kept shipping. 400,000 people run the free listing, at 4.6 stars from 11.8K ratings, last updated on August 26, 2026. Another 300,000 run the separate Pro listing, at 4.9 from 24.9K ratings. Both ship in 33 languages. The original Dashy, for contrast, has 10,000+ users and 4.7 stars from 273 reviews.
Where Infinity wins
Links first, and it is not close. Dashy has a bookmarks widget and a bookmark search, but Infinity has built its whole product around the grid: custom icons, folders, sizing and colour, plus your top sites and history in the same place. If the only job is getting to a site fast, that is a better tool than a dashboard with a link widget on it.
Then backup. Cloud sync and "Onekey Recovery" sit in the free listing's own feature list, with no price attached to them anywhere Infinity publishes. The Pro listing spells the sign-in out, Google, Facebook, WeChat, Weibo or QQ, and your shortcuts follow you. Dashy syncs across devices on a paid plan. On this one, Infinity offers as standard what Dashy puts behind Pro, and we would rather say that plainly.
Then reach. Both listings are translated into 33 languages, Hindi and Thai and Vietnamese and Korean among them, with separate Chinese for China and Taiwan. That is real work, and it is why Infinity has users in places most new tab pages never touch.
Then the small conveniences. A Gmail badge that counts unread mail. A web version at inftab.com you can open on a locked-down machine. An Edge add-on, so it is not Chrome-only in practice.
Where Dashy is different
Dashy is not trying to win the grid. It starts one layer earlier, with what the tab feels like before you click anything, and what a new tab dashboard is explains the shape of that.
The first difference is atmosphere. Dashy opens with a curated wallpaper that changes with the time of day, or one you upload yourself, and no account is needed for either. Then it adds sound: rain, ocean, forest, fireplace, cafe and more, included, on the tab, with no second app and no separate tab playing audio in the background. Infinity has 365 wallpapers and no audio at all.
The second is the day itself. Infinity gives you three: weather, a to-do list, a notepad. Dashy has tasks, notes and a calendar as separate widgets, and can connect Google Calendar, Todoist and Google Tasks behind them. That is the difference between a page that gets you to your calendar and a page that already shows it.
The third is the layout. Infinity lets you resize, recolour and rearrange icons, and the grid stays a grid. Dashy lets you add, move, resize and restyle anything on the page, and ships four templates, Focus, Productive, Curious and Aesthetic, if you would rather start from a finished look. Customization is free.
The fourth has no equivalent on the other side. Dashy runs an MCP server, so an assistant of your own can lay the tab out for you. You approve it by name. Every change is logged. Nothing it drafts runs until you have read it. Early access now, everyone in October 2026; the AI page covers how it works.
The honest trade-offs
Infinity's weak spot is what happens when something goes wrong. A review on the Pro listing reads: "Was using this for many years, but something happened, I got logged out, and my userid and password are not working so I lost my shortcuts and can't restore my backup." Another reports that icon images "stopped working and they never fixed it". Infinity's own home page carries a red menu item, "10.0.107 version data recovery", pointing at a Google Doc that walks you through side-loading a newer build and warns that "multiple drag and drop installations will overwrite data". Against 24.9K ratings averaging 4.9, that is a minority experience. It is still worth knowing before you put five years of shortcuts into one account.
The other thing to know is that some of the grid is commercial. The Pro listing says the tab "may include a few optional partner shortcuts by default (e.g., eBay)" and that you can remove or replace them in Settings. The free listing puts it more narrowly: some merchant shortcuts "may use affiliate links", and those links "are only activated following your explicit action". Both name the eBay Partner Network and say they earn from qualifying purchases. The disclosure is clear. Read it, then decide.
Dashy's trade-offs run the other way. It is smaller on every public number: the original Dashy has 10,000+ users against Infinity's 400,000, and 273 reviews against 11.8K. It has no web version and no Firefox or Safari version. Sync across devices and connected services sit on a paid plan; Infinity lists its backup as a standard feature. The agent features are in early access. And the new Dashy arrives in October 2026, so until then the public record is the original's.
How to decide
Ask what you want the tab to be while it is open.
If it is a door, something you pass through on the way to the same handful of sites, take Infinity. It is fast, it syncs, it speaks your language, and hundreds of thousands of people have not stayed by accident. Keep your own copy of the shortcuts and you have a good answer.
If it is a room, somewhere you look at while you think, then Dashy is the different bet: a picture and a sound first, your calendar and your tasks next, and an assistant that can rearrange it when the week changes. You do not need an account for any of that.
Both are quick to try, and Infinity's web version means you can look at it before installing anything. If you are weighing a third option, the other comparisons are written the same way, with the concession first.