Tab Wrangler Alternative for Chrome
Nest closes the tabs you stopped using too, but slowly and with a way back: it suspends them first, asks before tidying any away, and keeps them 30 days.
Nest vs Tab Wrangler
Tab Wrangler auto-closes inactive tabs and keeps a list to restore. Nest closes idle tabs too, after weeks rather than on a timer, and adds snooze, sessions and organization.
| Nest | Tab Wrangler | |
|---|---|---|
| Free up tabs you’re not using | ✓ | ✓ |
| Closes idle tabs for you | After 14 or 30 days, opt-in | On a timer |
| Keeps what it closed | 30 days, with Undo | In a list to reopen |
| Suspend idle tabs without closing them | ✓ | — |
| Snooze with a scheduled return | ✓ | — |
| Save & restore named sessions | ✓ | — |
| Organize tabs into categories | ✓ | — |
| Notes attached to individual tabs | ✓ | — |
| Export backups (HTML / JSON) | ✓ | — |
Close idle tabs slowly, with a way back
Tab Wrangler closes tabs automatically after they sit idle. Nest’s Tidy away does the same for tabs you have not touched in weeks, and it is built so you can trust it: it shows you the list before its first run, and keeps every tidied tab in Nest for 30 days.
Organization and recovery built in
Tab Wrangler is focused on closing tabs. Nest adds the structure and safety net that heavy tab users need.
Autopilot works without Nest being open, and it is free. How Autopilot works.
FAQ
Tab Wrangler auto-closes inactive tabs after a timeout and keeps them in a list to reopen. Nest can do that too, more slowly and with more care: Tidy away closes tabs you have not used for 14 or 30 days, asks before its first run, and keeps them in Nest for 30 days with Undo. Nest also suspends idle tabs without closing them, snoozes tabs to a time, and organizes the rest into categories.
Tab Wrangler is built around closing idle tabs on a timer. In Nest that is one rule of several: Suspend unloads idle tabs and leaves them in place, Tidy away closes long-idle tabs into a list you can restore, and the rest of Nest snoozes tabs, saves sessions, organizes what is open and brings tabs back after a Chrome restart.
Only if you turn on Tidy away. It closes tabs you have not used for 14 or 30 days, and the first time it shows you the list and asks. After that it runs at most once a day, never touches pinned tabs, tabs playing sound, the tab you are on or anything used in the last 30 minutes, and keeps what it closed in Nest for 30 days, with Undo. Suspend is the lighter option: it unloads idle tabs and leaves them where they are.
Yes. 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. Organizing, snoozing, notes and export are free too.
Declutter tabs without the surprises
Install Nest free: suspend idle tabs, tidy away the ones you forgot, and get any of them back for 30 days.
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