Chrome Tab Manager

Restore what you closed, get tabs back after a Chrome restart, save up to 3 named sessions free and search tab history. Pro adds unlimited sessions and cross-device sync.

Add to Chrome — free

Closing a window stops being a decision.

Closed a tab by accident or restarted Chrome? Nest keeps session backups so you can restore tabs fast, and after a restart it offers back what Chrome dropped. Save named sessions and export them as HTML or JSON, free; cloud sync across devices is part of Pro.

Restore closed tabs in one click
Tabs a Chrome restart dropped, offered back in one click
Save and load named sessions — 3 free, unlimited on Pro
Search open + closed tab history
Export backups as HTML or JSON — free
Cloud sync with device grouping — Pro

A built-in Chrome tab organizer

Nest doubles as a Chrome tab organizer: sort tabs into categories so related work stays together and projects are easy to resume.

Create categories for projects or topics
Drag and drop tabs into categories
Domain rules: pin a domain to a category so its future tabs route there automatically
Multi-window aware: tabs in other windows get a small letter badge
Search covers closed tabs as well as open ones

A week with it, in practice

The point of a tab manager is not the day you install it — it is the Thursday afternoon when you have forty tabs open across three things and none of it is a crisis. This is roughly how that works out.

Monday: pin the three domains you live in to categories. Every tab from them files itself from now on.
Tuesday: something urgent lands. Snooze the current project until tomorrow rather than closing it.
Wednesday: a page you will need again but not today — a note on the tab says why, so you can close it.
Thursday: someone asks about last month’s work. Search covers closed tabs, not just open ones.
Friday: save the week as a named session and close the window without thinking about it.

Each piece has its own page: categories and domain rules, snoozing, notes and saved sessions. The part that runs without you is Autopilot.

What it does not do

Worth saying plainly, because a tab manager that claims everything is the reason people stop trusting the category. Nest is deliberately narrow.

It does not replace Chrome’s tab strip, and does not nest tabs into a tree
It does not read page content, and it has no AI or chatbot
Your tabs never leave your machine on the free tier: no account, no upload, no sync

If it is Chrome’s vertical tab strip you are after, that is now built in — here is how to turn it on, and Nest sits beside it rather than replacing it.

Where your data actually lives

Everything the free extension does is local. Categories, snoozed tabs, notes, closed-tab history, Automatic Sessions and the Vault’s automatic snapshots are stored on your machine, and no account exists to attach them to.

Free: local only, no account, nothing uploaded
Export to HTML or JSON is free, so your tabs are never stuck in Nest
Pro: cloud sync across devices
The Vault keeps up to ten local snapshots, taken before anything that changes a lot at once
Vault snapshots are checksummed against corruption — they are not encrypted cloud backups

FAQ

Does Nest replace Chrome's "Reopen closed tab"?

Nest adds searchable history, named session saving, and fast multi-tab restore, so recovery scales beyond one tab at a time.

Can I restore an entire session?

Yes — save named sessions and restore them at once. You can also export backups as HTML or JSON, free.

What if Chrome restarts and my tabs are gone?

Nest’s Autopilot keeps a list of what was open. About a minute after Chrome starts, if some tabs did not come back, it has already saved them and offers them back in one click, with a notice and a dot on the Nest icon. It is free and works without Nest being open.

Can I sync tabs across devices?

Yes — with a Pro subscription, Nest syncs your tabs, sessions, and categories across devices with device grouping so you can see which tabs belong to which machine.

Keep your tabs recoverable

Install Nest to back up sessions, restore what you closed, and get tabs back after a Chrome restart. Cross-device sync is part of Pro.

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