Netvibes is gone. Here's a new home for your dashboard.
For years Netvibes was the go-to personal dashboard: tabs full of RSS feeds, weather, notes and to-dos. Netvibes.com has now been retired as a standalone service, and the Netvibes name lives on only inside Dassault Systèmes' business software. If you relied on your Netvibes page, you need somewhere new.
What you probably want to keep
- Your RSS feeds, grouped so you can skim them
- Weather for home and a few other places
- A notes or to-do box
- Your links
- Maybe your calendar and email
Moving to OnePane
OnePane is a personal start page with widgets you arrange on a grid. Here's how the Netvibes pieces map across:
| On Netvibes | On OnePane |
|---|---|
| RSS feed widgets and tabs | News widget with a tab per feed. Add as many News widgets as you like. |
| Weather | Weather widget with several places, side by side or one featured |
| Notes / to-do | Notes journal: press Enter to add, tick off, search, export to Markdown |
| Links / bookmarks | Bookmarks widget, with the first nine on keys 1–9 |
| Calendar | Calendar widget for Google, Apple and Outlook calendars |
| Outlook mail (Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com) |
Bringing your feeds across
- If you still have an OPML export or a list of your feeds, open it. Any text editor will show the feed addresses.
- No export? Most sites still publish a feed, usually linked from a page called "RSS" or "Feeds". Copy that address.
- Group related feeds in one News widget (it shows each feed as a tab), or add a News widget per topic.
Why a paid dashboard?
Free, ad-supported dashboards tend to disappear when the ads stop paying: iGoogle in 2013, and now Netvibes. OnePane costs $9.99 USD a year after a 7-day free trial. That's small enough to be an easy yes, and it means the service is paid for by the people who use it.
Want to compare options first? See our comparison of start pages.
Questions
Is Netvibes still available?
No. Netvibes.com has been retired as a standalone service. The Netvibes brand continues inside Dassault Systèmes' enterprise software, not as a personal dashboard.
Can I import my Netvibes feeds into OnePane?
There's no one-click import yet. Copy the feed addresses from your OPML export, or from each site's RSS page, and paste them into a News widget.
Is there a free Netvibes alternative?
Protopage is free and has RSS feeds, bookmarks and sticky notes. start.me has a free plan with ads. OnePane is $9.99 a year with a 7-day free trial.