What are the best tab managers for Chrome?

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Best tab managers for Chrome	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
-- The Great Suspender	-	-	Dec 3, 2019
-- OneTab	-	Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox	Nov 8, 2019
-- Workona	FREE	-	Jan 23, 2020
-- Cluster	Free	-	Jan 8, 2020
-- Session Buddy	Free	-	Nov 28, 2019

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score 33 · Answer 1

The Great Suspender

Top Pro

Suspends tabs preventing memory usage

IT prevents chrome from guzzling RAM by suspending tabs and making sure that whatever you are using is running at full potential. See More

Top Con

This is not a tab manager

Yanis's Experience

Cool name for a cool add-on ! See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Allows for some changes in its functions including changing time after it suspends a tab, adding sites to whitelists and a few other options. See More

Raghu Ranganathan's Experience

A very old and reliable chrome app. Very useful, and been using it for many years. It has saved me so much time on my potato PCs that have like 512MB of RAM that chrome instantly burns. One of the most timeless and useful utility apps and one of the original few tab managers I'd seen on the web store. See More

Top Pro

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

Quickly exclude any single web page or entire site with just a couple clicks of the mouse. This is great for domains with text fields you don't want to lose your progress in or streaming video players you don't want to lose their position in when paused for long periods of time. See More

Lucas Zapico's Experience

For tab hoarders - saves me from eventually having to force quit Chrome because I have too much open. Great product. See More

Andrea Mueller's Experience

Great for minimizing the amount of memory Chrome uses. See More

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score 9 · Answer 2

OneTab

Top Con

Sync not available

Top Pro

Easy and reliable

SupportiveErimon's Experience

Lost all my stored tabs, no recovery. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox

Top Con

Data loss

When you run ccleaner or CleanMyMac, all OneTab data may vanish. See More

Top Pro

Overall very useful

It takes all of your tabs (choose between all/all-except-current/current/all-to-right/all-to-left) and turns them into links in a special OneTab tab where you can further manage your tabs by dividing them into groups, removing duplicates and securing them so that they can't be removed unless unsecured. See More

Dan Jay's Experience

OneTab saved me from "Tabs Hell" in Chrome that used to cause pc to nonresponsive. It's great I can stop freezing my pc by clicking on the OneTab Icon. I love this. For further info check out my post relative to this experience. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-number-of-tabs-open-in-Google-or-Computer/answer/Dan-Jay-2 See More

Top Con

Can get messy

The OneTab tab has everything in a list format with just simple headings describing what you have in this or that list. It isn't comfortable to manage it when you have quite a lot of tabs in there. See More

Top Con

Slightly confusing UX

It's easy to forget that clicking on the OneTab button in the extensions bar doesn't show you options – it saves your current session by closing all your tabs in the given browser window. That might be slightly annoying if you were trying to access the OneTab dashboard or view OneTab options instead of trying to save your current session in OneTab, but this is only a minor inconvenience given how easy it is to restore your session. See More

Top Con

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

This is not so much a con as much as it is a heads up for those who use OneTab as a form of transient digital bookmarking (like me!). When you click on a tab/link in any given OneTab session, that will cause it to disappear from the list of tabs in that section. It would be nice if there was an interim period or separate place where the link is still visible/accessible. That or it would be nice to have a version history of past closed tabs/links and sessions. See More

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score 34 · Answer 3

Workona

Top Pro

Effortless organization

Intuitive UI. Minimal ramp-up. See More

Top Con

Paid

For free accounts, you can only have 10 personal workspaces and 3 shared workspaces. See More

Froggy Boggins's Experience

This product completely changed the way I use the internet - for the better. Effortless organization. It is that life-changing. It treats browser tabs as resources and finally provides me with a way to organize them by project effectively and easily. See More

NeighborlySuleviae's Experience

The best tab manager as 2019, it's incredible! See More

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score 15 · Answer 4

Cluster

Top Pro

Drag & Drop

Ability to move tabs to different places or windows using drag and drop. See More

Top Con

It doesn't save tabs automatically

Nathan R's Experience

Cluster is an amazing tool for organizing tabs. The extension provides a ton of handy features to make you more organized. I especially like the drag and drop feature as you can rearrange tabs or move them to new windows easily. Cluster also includes a window suspend feature which helps reduce the memory usage of Chrome. Many window managers are slow when opening saved windows, but due to the fast restore feature in Cluster, the extension quickly opens hundreds of tabs without any load. I would recommend Cluster to anyone who wants an awesome tab manager that can help them become more organized. See More

Top Pro

Multiple sorting options

You can sort the tabs by ascending, descending, and domain. See More

Top Con

Syncing requires license

To enable syncing between browsers, you have to purchase a $9.80 license. See More

Top Pro

Clean user interface

Has a clean interface with a light and dark mode. See More

Top Pro

Removes duplicates

Has an option to automatically remove duplicate tabs. See More

Top Pro

Exporting

Lets you export and import windows as .CSV and .JSON files. See More

Top Pro

Window merge

You can merge multiple windows together into one window. See More

Top Pro

Suspend tabs

Ability to suspend the selected tab(s). See More

Top Pro

Searching

Ability to search through tabs. See More

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score 9 · Answer 5

Session Buddy

Top Pro

Save groups of tabs under whatever label to check out later

Tab hoarders dream - have a set of tabs that have fallen to the waste side, open Session Buddy, save the group under a label and go back at your leisure. See More

Top Con

No sync with cloud

Lucas Zapico's Experience

As I fall down the rabbit hole that is the internet. I use session buddy to keep my research organized so I can stay on track. workflow example: Problem to solve Reseach problem - open a bunch of tabs on the subject - when the loose pertinence or are cluttering (save them as a session if they may still have value) Reseach solution - open a bunch of tabs to get a broad overview to find the best possible solution given constraints - attempt solution - save rest to session buddy in case I need to revisit. Why do the same research twice? See More

Top Pro

Export/Import features

These allow you to save on a flash drive. See More

Top Con

No automatic backup, only manual

Nathan R's Experience

Session Buddy has a clean user interface and is a great program for managing many tabs. The ability to name groups of tabs is very useful and helps me become more organized. Compared to some other tab managers, Session Buddy has a cleaner and more organized interface. Session Buddy is a great task manager that will help you organize all of your tabs. See More

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score 10 · Answer 6

toby

Top Con

Cannot export to file

Top Pro

Clear the clutter

StrongPabilsag's Experience

It's not a tab manager, it's a bookmark manager See More

Top Con

Requires account sign-up for advanced features

Top Pro

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Create an account and sync your tabs cross-platform. See More

SpontaneousKyrbas's Experience

I've got a tab problem. So much so, my dog's name is "Tab" as a pun for the number of tabs I would have open. :D Toby gives me exactly what I want. The ability to keep tabs, organize them, and even share them, without killing my system performance. Now I can have 72 tabs "open" but only "see" 5-7 of them. No more miraculous tab-mountain-ranges at the top of my view, but now I can actually read some titles! See More

Top Con

Cannot import from an older tabs manager

It would be great if Toby allowed a mechanism to import tabs from other tools like OneTab. See More

Top Pro

Pause and resume work

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score 5 · Answer 7

Tabli

Top Pro

Fuzzy quick search feature

Top Pro

Use native Chrome bookmarks for saving tabs

score 11 · Answer 8

tabXpert

Top Pro

Real-time window and tab management

Top Con

Cannot share sessions or remote access them

StrongPabilsag's Experience

With tabXpert you don't need to save anything - it's all saved automatically. Just create a new window for a new topic, that's it. See More

Top Pro

History of closed windows and tabs

Top Pro

It's free for local usage

Top Pro

Real-time sync with cloud

Top Pro

Drag-and-drop tabs

Top Pro

Hot tabs accessible via shortcuts

Top Pro

The Great Suspender support

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score 13 · Answer 9

OneTab Pro

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score 2 · Answer 10

Fast Unique Tab

LogicalBeliMawr's Experience

This extension works great, with no ads and very very fast. See More

score 2 · Answer 11

tabzen

Top Pro

Save tabs and restore later

Top Pro

Organize tabs in folders

Top Pro

Search tabs

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score 2 · Answer 12

Sidewise Tree Style Tabs

Top Con

Does not save sessions

Top Pro

Simple

Simple and intuitive. See More

Top Con

Beta

Top Pro

Notepad

Notepad as in Opera. See More

Top Pro

Hibernate

Can hibernate tabs and branches. See More

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score 3 · Answer 13

Tabs Outliner

Top Con

Complicated

Clumsy and complicated interface. See More

Top Pro

Tabs Outliner is great at organization of tabs

Even though the experience is not streamlined, it's still worth checking out. See More

ChattyAnput's Experience

It's great, although the tutorial needs to be updated since it's written in rather broken English. Also, the user interface is unnecessarily complicated though still functional. See More

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score 1 · Answer 14

TooManyTabs for Chrome

Top Pro

Easy sync via Google Drive

Top Con

UI is quite cluttered

score 1 · Answer 15

Tab Bouncer

Top Pro

Frees you from having to manage tabs

score 2 · Answer 16

Saka

Top Con

Not updating sessions realtime

Top Pro

Also works in Firefox

Top Pro

Free and open-source

Plugins can be hard to trust sometimes, but this one does have a GitHub repo with source code. See More

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score 2 · Answer 17

Toast

Top Pro

It's new

Seems to be created only in 2019. See More

Top Con

Not updating sessions realtime

ExpertSuaixtix's Experience

I was looking for a session manager. I've seen a Toby and a SessionBuddy, but the problem is that they are too big. Toby uses my Chrome home screen (where I actually want to have an Unsplash wallpaper), SessionBuddy needs a full screen to open a session and it also does not look good. Toast is super lightweight and that's the biggest advantage. It lives in a tiny popup in top right corner. Is easy to use and actually pretty nice looking. See More

Specs

Platforms:Chrome, Safari

Top Pro

Is also available for Safari

Safari lacks an extensions, but these guys did a Toast for that. See More

Top Con

No extra deep tab management

If you a person who likes to customize everything, edit things back and forth, probably Toast is not for you. As it was recently launched, it has at the moment only the most needed features. See More

Top Pro

Nice looking

Top Con

No Firefox support

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Pro

Super lightweight

It lives in a tiny popup in top right corner and doesn't take your Chrome home screen or even opens a new tab. It's just a small piece, almost like a native menu. See More

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score 2 · Answer 18

18 Options Considered

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

Suspends tabs preventing memory usage

This is not a tab manager

Customizable

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

My Recommendation for OneTab

My Recommendation for OneTab

Sync not available

Easy and reliable

Data loss

Overall very useful

Can get messy

Slightly confusing UX

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

My Recommendation for Workona

My Recommendation for Workona

Effortless organization

Paid

My Recommendation for Cluster

My Recommendation for Cluster

Drag & Drop

It doesn't save tabs automatically

Multiple sorting options

Syncing requires license

Clean user interface

Removes duplicates

Exporting

Window merge

Suspend tabs

Searching

My Recommendation for Session Buddy

My Recommendation for Session Buddy

Save groups of tabs under whatever label to check out later

No sync with cloud

Export/Import features

No automatic backup, only manual

My Recommendation for toby

My Recommendation for toby

Cannot export to file

Clear the clutter

Requires account sign-up for advanced features

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Cannot import from an older tabs manager

Pause and resume work

My Recommendation for Tabli

My Recommendation for Tabli

Fuzzy quick search feature

Use native Chrome bookmarks for saving tabs

My Recommendation for tabXpert

My Recommendation for tabXpert

Real-time window and tab management

Cannot share sessions or remote access them

History of closed windows and tabs

It's free for local usage

Real-time sync with cloud

Drag-and-drop tabs

Hot tabs accessible via shortcuts

The Great Suspender support

My Recommendation for OneTab Pro

My Recommendation for OneTab Pro

My Recommendation for Fast Unique Tab

My Recommendation for Fast Unique Tab

My Recommendation for tabzen

My Recommendation for tabzen

Save tabs and restore later

Organize tabs in folders

Search tabs

My Recommendation for Sidewise Tree Style Tabs

My Recommendation for Sidewise Tree Style Tabs

Does not save sessions

Simple

Beta

Notepad

Hibernate

My Recommendation for Tabs Outliner

My Recommendation for Tabs Outliner

Complicated

Tabs Outliner is great at organization of tabs