Tabcove
Tabcove

Save every tab in one click —
and actually get them back.

Tabcove is a tab manager for Chrome that treats your saved tabs as data worth protecting: instant search, tab groups kept intact, automatic restore points, and a 30-day undo bin. Everything stays on your device.

Get Tabcove

Free · No account · No sign-in · No network access
The Chrome Web Store listing is in review. Until it is live, install from source — the repository has one-line instructions.

What it does

Stow in one click

All tabs, this tab, the others, a selection, or every window. The button tells you exactly what it will save before you press it.

Find anything, instantly

Ranked search across titles, addresses, and collection names — measured at 7 ms across 20,000 saved tabs.

Tab groups survive

Chrome tab groups come back with their names and colours. Pinned tabs come back pinned, and multi-window layouts are rebuilt.

Restore points

A snapshot of your whole library is taken automatically before anything destructive. Roll back from the library in one click.

A 30-day undo bin

Deleted a collection by accident? It waits in the bin for a month. Nothing in Tabcove is destroyed by a single click.

Your data, portable

Export everything as JSON, HTML, Markdown, CSV, or plain text. Import from OneTab, from a Tabcove backup, or from any list of addresses.

Restoring doesn't consume

Opening a collection leaves it in your library. A library you empty by reading from it is not a library.

Fast at any size

One storage record per collection and a windowed list renderer, so 20,000 saved tabs feels the same as 20.

Keyboard-first

Ctrl/⌘ + K opens a command palette. Every action is reachable without a mouse, with WCAG AA contrast throughout.

Privacy, in one paragraph

Tabcove saves the web address, page title, and save time of the tabs you choose to stow, and keeps them on your own device. Beyond that it has no host permissions and no content scripts, so it cannot read or change any web page. It has no networking code at all — no fetch, no XMLHttpRequest, no analytics, no third-party libraries — and the build fails if any of those ever appear. Site icons come from Chrome's own local cache rather than from a remote favicon service, because a remote service would mean sending your addresses to somebody else's server. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server, because there is no backend at all.

The source is public and is neither minified nor obfuscated — what you read is what runs. Full detail is in the privacy policy.

Permissions

Permission Why it is needed
tabs Read the title and address of your open tabs, and close them when you ask.
tabGroups Save and rebuild Chrome tab groups with their names and colours.
storage Keep your library on your device.
unlimitedStorage Lift Chrome's 10 MB cap so a large library keeps working.
contextMenus Add the right-click "Stow" actions.
favicon Show site icons from Chrome's local cache — never from a remote service.
alarms Sweep the undo bin and check whether a backup is due.

Free, and staying free

Everything described on this page is free, with no limits on how many collections or tabs you save. Paid features are planned for a future version — encrypted cloud sync, automation rules, and AI grouping — but nothing you can use today will ever move behind a paywall.

Coming from OneTab?

Export your list from OneTab, paste it into Tabcove's import box, and you get a structured, searchable library back. A restore point is saved before anything is written, so an import is never a one-way door. Tabcove is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from OneTab.

Support

Bugs, questions, and feature requests: github.com/ownCoder/tabcove/issues.