Features

Five tools. One panel.

Organize what's open. Recover what's closed. Autopilot looks after the rest, even when Nest is closed. In the side panel or over the page.

Add to Chrome — free
New in 1.8

Autopilot

Nest now looks after your tabs without being opened. When Chrome restarts, crashes or updates and some tabs do not come back, Nest has already saved them and offers them back in one click. Close a window with three or more tabs, or a Chrome tab group with two or more, and it is kept as an Automatic Session for 7 days (30 on Pro). Turn on Duplicate Autopilot and exact duplicate tabs close as they appear — never pinned, playing, active or grouped tabs, and every run has Undo. 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. Free, no account. How Autopilot works.

New in 1.5

Nest in Chrome’s side panel

Keep your organized tabs visible while you browse, instead of reopening the popup every time you need them. Switch surfaces from Account → Nest window; it applies the next time you click the Nest icon. Your tab strip is untouched. More on the side panel.

New in 1.5

The Vault

Automatic local copies of your tabs, categories, sessions and notes, taken before anything that could change a lot at once. Restoring always saves the current state first, so it can be undone. Snapshots are checksummed against corruption and stored on your machine — they are not cloud backups and not encrypted. Free, and kept to ten snapshots within a local storage budget so they cannot crowd out your data.

What costs nothing

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. Categories and domain rules, tab snoozing, notes, search across open and closed tabs, one-click restore of what you closed, export to HTML or JSON, the local Vault and Chrome tab-group syncing are free too, with no trial clock on any of it. If you never want Pro, the free extension is not a stripped demo of it. Pro is $4 a month with a 7-day free trial and no card needed to start it, or $36 a year.

How the five actually fit together

They are one workflow, not five utilities. A domain rule files a tab into a category the moment it opens, so the sorting happens without you. Snooze takes the ones you are not using this week off screen and brings them back on a date you chose. A note explains why a tab was worth keeping, which is usually the thing you forget first and the thing that lets you close it. A named session turns the whole arrangement into something you can reopen on Monday. The closed-tab list plus the Vault mean none of it is one misclick from gone, and Autopilot covers the moments you would not think to open Nest at all: a restart that drops tabs, a window closed in a hurry, and the tabs you stopped using weeks ago.

What Nest is not

It does not replace Chrome’s tab strip, and it does not nest tabs into a tree — Chrome now has its own vertical tab layout, and Nest runs beside it. It does not read what is on your pages, and it has no AI or chatbot: Chat was removed in 1.8.0. A tab manager that claims everything is why people stop trusting the category.