The web is full of useful apps, online tools, games and services. The challenge is finding the right ones without wasting time jumping between websites.
AboutOK is built to make discovering the web easier. With AboutOK Search, you can explore web apps, games and useful online experiences from one place.
And with the AboutOK browser extension, you can make your new tab more useful with customizable search engines, website shortcuts, wallpapers and tools designed around your browsing habits.
Whether you're looking for a tool to help with your work, searching for a new game to play, or organizing the websites you visit every day, AboutOK brings discovery and everyday browsing closer together.
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Discover Web Apps, Games and Online Tools
AboutOK Search helps you explore web experiences beyond the websites you already know.
Search for what you need, browse popular apps, explore games, or use categories to discover something new.
Instead of needing to know the exact name of a website before you start, you can begin with an idea and explore the possibilities.
But discovering something useful is only one part of the experience. We also wanted to make the place where browsing begins more useful, which led us to build the AboutOK new-tab experience.
From searching to discovering
Search is often treated as the final step: enter a query, find a result, and move on.
We think it can also be the beginning of discovery.
When you search for a web app or game, you may discover something you did not know existed. A tool can lead to another tool.
A category can reveal an entirely different set of possibilities. And a simple search can sometimes turn into a much broader exploration.
AboutOK is designed around that kind of journey.
It gives the web a more discoverable starting point, helping people explore beyond the few websites they already know.
A more useful place to begin
A good starting point should not make you think about where to go next.
It should help you get there.
That is the thinking behind AboutOK. Rather than overwhelming the experience with unnecessary complexity, we wanted to create a straightforward place where searching and discovering feel natural.
The goal is not to replace the web. It is to make the web easier to explore.
And that same idea led us to think about another part of the browsing experience: the moment when you open a new tab.
Making the new tab more useful
For many people, a new tab is opened dozens of times throughout the day.
It can be the beginning of a search, the place where you return to a favourite website, or simply the first screen you see when you start browsing.
Yet the default new-tab experience does not always reflect the way each person actually uses the web.
We wanted to change that.
Today, alongside AboutOK, we’re introducing an AboutOK new-tab experience designed to give people more control over how they start browsing.
It brings search, shortcuts, personalisation, and everyday browsing tools into one clean interface, so your new tab can feel less like an empty page and more like a workspace built around the way you browse.
You can search directly from your new tab, while also having the flexibility to choose from supported search engines such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo.
Different searches call for different tools, and no search has to follow the same path.
AboutOK lets you switch between search engines whenever you want. When typing isn't the most convenient option, voice search is another way to start a search, letting you avoid the hassle of typing and the risk of mistakes.
The result is a search experience that gives you more choice without asking you to leave the page first.
Keep the websites you use close
The websites we use most often tend to become part of our daily routine.
Whether it is a work tool, a service, a creative platform or something you visit every day, getting back to it should be simple.
With customizable website shortcuts, AboutOK gives you a place to keep those destinations within reach. You can add your favourite websites, organise your shortcuts and manage them as your browsing needs change.
Instead of repeatedly searching for the same destinations or keeping several tabs open just so they are easy to find, your most-used websites can have a dedicated place on your new tab.
Search what you see
The web does not always give you the answer you are looking for in a neatly packaged search box.
Sometimes you are already reading something when a word catches your attention. It might be a name, a question, a topic, or something you simply want to understand better.
With AboutOK's selected-text search, you can highlight text on a webpage and use the right-click context menu to search it with AboutOK.
There is no need to manually copy the text, open another tab, paste it and start again.
It is a small interaction, but it is designed around a familiar browsing habit: discover something first, then explore it further.
Make your new tab feel like yours
A browser is used differently by everyone.
Some people prefer a minimal workspace. Others want shortcuts to their favourite websites immediately visible. Some prefer a particular search engine, while others want to change things depending on how they browse.
AboutOK is designed to accommodate those differences.
You can personalise the new-tab experience with custom wallpapers, website shortcuts and search-engine preferences.
You can also choose which optional elements appear on the page, giving you more control over what your starting point looks and feels like.
The result is not meant to be one fixed design for everyone. It is a starting point you can shape around your own browsing habits.
A new view every day
A familiar workspace does not have to look exactly the same every day.
With Daily Nature Wallpapers, AboutOK can automatically rotate through fresh nature imagery, giving your new tab a different atmosphere over time.
The feature is designed to bring a little variety to an otherwise familiar part of the browsing experience, without changing the way you search or access your websites.
And for people who prefer to keep things even simpler, there is another option.
Stay focused with Zen Mode
Sometimes the best interface is the one that gets out of the way.
When you want a more distraction-free browsing experience, Zen Mode can hide distracting elements and give you a cleaner, more minimal new tab.
It is built around a simple idea: not every moment needs more information.
Sometimes you just want to search, open a website and continue with what you were doing.
Settings that work around you
Personalisation only becomes useful when you can control it.
AboutOK brings these controls together through dedicated settings for general preferences, wallpapers, shortcuts, search engines, widgets and browsing behaviour.
This means the experience can evolve with you.
You can change your shortcuts when your routine changes, switch your preferred search engine, update your wallpaper preferences, or adjust which widgets you want to see.
Rather than locking the new tab into one experience, AboutOK gives you the flexibility to decide what belongs there.
Keep your setup safe
Personalising a browser experience can take time.
You may have added your favourite websites, configured search engines, adjusted preferences and created a setup that works exactly the way you want.
That's why AboutOK includes Backup & Restore.
You can export your AboutOK settings, including custom search engines, shortcuts and preferences, to a backup file and restore them when needed.
It is designed to make your personalised setup easier to preserve and move forward with.
One idea, brought into everyday browsing
AboutOK started with a simple question: what if discovering the web could feel a little easier?
That question led to a search experience built around web apps, games and categories.
It then led to a broader idea: that the place where browsing begins should be just as useful as the search itself.
The result is an experience that brings together discovery and everyday browsing: search for something new, return to something familiar, personalise the way you browse, and keep the things that matter within reach.
We believe useful technology does not always need to add more steps.
Sometimes it is about giving people more choice without making that choice complicated, and sometimes making an experience you use every day feel a little more useful.
