Quick answers about Autopilot, categories, restore, snooze and notes.
Nest is a free Chrome tab manager that looks after your tabs on its own: it brings back tabs Chrome drops in a restart, saves windows and tab groups you close, and can close duplicate tabs. It also sorts tabs into categories, snoozes tabs to restore later, keeps notes on tabs, and restores recently closed tabs or sessions.
Autopilot is the part of Nest that works without Nest being open. Restart rescue: after Chrome restarts, crashes or updates and some tabs do not come back, Nest has already saved them and offers to reopen them in one click. Automatic Sessions: when you close a window with three or more tabs, or a Chrome tab group with two or more, Nest saves it so you can reopen it or Keep it as a named session; they are kept 7 days free and 30 on Pro. Duplicate Autopilot, if you turn it on, closes exact duplicate tabs as they appear. Suspend unloads tabs you have not used for a few days, and Tidy away, if you choose it, closes tabs idle for weeks and keeps them in Nest for 30 days. All of it is free and needs no account.
Two rules can, and both wait for you to turn them on. Duplicate Autopilot closes exact copies of a page that is already open. Tidy away closes tabs you have not used for 14 or 30 days, and the first time it shows you the list and asks. Neither touches pinned tabs, tabs playing sound, the tab you are on, anything used in the last 30 minutes or sites you exclude. Every run has Undo: closed duplicates are in Closed Tabs, and tidied tabs stay in Nest for 30 days.
You can create categories and move tabs into them using a simple UI. This keeps related work together and makes it easier to resume projects without searching through dozens of open tabs.
Yes. Nest lets you attach a note to any tab, so the context stays next to the exact page you're working on and comes back with it.
Snoozing temporarily hides tabs and brings them back later. You can snooze individual tabs or entire categories and restore them when you're ready.
Yes. Recently closed tabs are one click away in Closed Tabs, without digging through browser history. And when you close a whole window of three or more tabs, or a Chrome tab group of two or more, Autopilot saves it as an Automatic Session you can reopen.
The extension is free and needs no account, including Autopilot and up to 3 named sessions. Pro makes sessions unlimited and adds cloud sync and 30-day Automatic Session history. Export is free too. Pro is $4 a month with a 7-day free trial and no card needed to start it, or $36 a year.
Chat was removed in Nest 1.8.0 to keep Nest local and focused on looking after your tabs. Nest has no AI feature and reads no page content: it works with tab addresses and titles, which stay in your browser unless you turn on Pro sync. What Chat used to do on request, like closing duplicates, Autopilot now does on its own if you turn it on.
OneTab focuses on portable saved lists, Session Buddy on Collections and detailed browser history, Workona on project Spaces, and Nest on active Categories, scheduled Snooze, Notes, Sessions, and local recovery. Choose the workflow you repeat most.
Open Nest, click the session save button, and name your session. Nest saves every open tab and group, and you can reopen it any time. Free includes up to 3 named sessions. Pro makes sessions unlimited and adds cloud sync and 30-day Automatic Session history.
Yes. Nest works on any Chromium-based browser including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera. Install it from the Chrome Web Store and it works the same way.
OneTab v2 offers folders, groups, search, sharing, and list import/export. Nest instead focuses on active Categories, Chrome groups, scheduled Snooze, Notes, Closed Tabs, and local Vault snapshots. Nest has no OneTab import. Its Autopilot also saves windows you close and offers back tabs a Chrome restart dropped, and export is free; Pro adds unlimited sessions and cloud sync.
Yes. By snoozing tabs you don't need right now and organizing the rest into categories, Nest reduces the number of active tabs in Chrome. Fewer active tabs means less memory usage and a faster browser.
Nest's tab management works locally and reads no page content. Autopilot keeps the tabs it saves in Chrome's local storage on your computer, and its notices show counts, never page titles. Optional Pro sync sends supported workspace data to your account.
Yes, free. Nest exports tabs and sessions as HTML bookmarks or JSON data files. HTML exports contain clickable links. JSON exports preserve Nest metadata for archiving or external tooling; Nest does not currently provide an import workflow.
Visit the Chrome Web Store, search for 'Nest tab manager', and click 'Add to Chrome'. The extension is free and works immediately — no account required for core features.