A calmer way to browse
Save the pages you need, find them again in seconds, and keep your browser ready for what comes next.
For Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. AI, account sync and app connections are optional.
Built for real browsing
Keep the pages you want without keeping every tab open.
Save a whole window or choose specific tabs, and see which pages you had already saved. New sessions are named after their sites, and you can import your links from OneTab and other apps. Keep tabs open, or close them after they are safely saved.
Search open tabs, sessions, Pocket, local history and, with your permission, browser bookmarks. From the address bar, sts searches your library or saves, opens and tidies windows.
Save a page or link to Pocket and review it one page at a time. Set a reminder on a page or session so it comes back when you need it, on every browser you sync, or a routine that opens a session when the browser starts or every weekday at 9:00.
Undo supported deletions, reopen windows you closed in the last week and recent local window recovery points, and export a backup of your sessions. With account sync, restore your synced sessions as they were in the last 30 days.
Group a crowded window's tabs by site or, with AI, by topic. Review the proposal, rename groups and move tabs, then create Chrome tab groups or save each group as a session. Pinned tabs and existing groups are left alone.
Send sessions and pages to Obsidian, Joplin, Raindrop.io or Readwise Reader, or export everything to Obsidian, Logseq or Joplin as linked notes. Keep Pocket in step with Chrome's reading list, and notify your own automations with a webhook.
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A simple workflow
Smart Tab Saver keeps the important part of a busy browsing session: the pages and how you grouped them.
Try the extensionSave all tabs or select the ones you want. Browser tab groups and pinned tabs can be restored with the session.
Use the dashboard, compact side panel or sts in the address bar to search your library.
Open a saved page or restore a full session, or let a routine open it for you. Your current work can stay in its own window, and what you keep can go to your notes app.
Clear choices
Use the core features locally. Turn on other services only when they help you.
Search and organize local sessions, history and Quick Access. The extension accesses browser bookmarks only after you grant permission.
Sync Sessions and Pocket, with their notes and reminders, through a Smart Tab Saver account. Browser history, bookmarks and local recovery points are not part of that upload.
On supported computers, AI features use the model built into Chrome and send nothing. If you add your own provider key, relevant titles, URLs and your questions may be sent to the provider you choose.
Obsidian, Logseq, Joplin, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, the reading list and webhooks stay off until you set them up. Data goes straight from your browser to each service with your own token, never through our servers.
Good to know
More guidance is available inside the extension's Help page.
No. You can save a session and leave its tabs open, or choose Save & close. You can also select only some tabs from the current window. Only web pages are saved; blank tabs, local files and browser pages are left as they are.
No. Sessions, Pocket, reminders, local search and tab management work without an account. On computers that support it, AI features use the model built into Chrome, with no key. Account sync, which also takes your reminders to your other browsers, and AI provider keys are separate options.
Chrome's built-in AI runs on your computer and sends nothing. If you add your own OpenAI, Perplexity or Anthropic (Claude) key, the AI features you use send your question and the relevant saved titles and URLs to that provider; requests never search the web. When you prepare notes for Obsidian, Logseq or Joplin with AI, it also receives session names and notes and, if you choose to read your pages, short descriptions taken from them, never their full content. Settings shows the model each provider uses, and you can turn each AI feature off.
No. Smart Tab Saver uses browser bookmarks locally when you enable access. They are separate from sessions synced with a Smart Tab Saver account.
The all-sessions backup contains saved sessions and Pocket, with their notes, reminders and custom order. It does not contain browser bookmarks, local history, account credentials or AI keys.
In the dashboard, Undo and Recovery can restore deleted Sessions, Pocket entries and Smart Tab Saver History. Recovery also keeps recent local snapshots of your open windows and the windows you closed in the last seven days, which reopen with their pinned tabs and tab groups. With account sync, Recovery > Cloud restores a copy of your synced sessions from the last 30 days. Browser bookmarks deleted from Smart Tab Saver are removed from Chrome and are not kept in this trash.
Yes. In the dashboard, Import from other apps accepts exports from OneTab, Toby and Session Buddy, lists of links or Markdown, bookmark HTML files, and Pocket or Instapaper CSV files. You see what was detected, and nothing is saved until you confirm. See how to switch and how Smart Tab Saver compares.
Yes. Turn on the apps you use in Settings > Integrations. Send to… in each session, the page's right-click menu and the Pocket review can send to Obsidian, Joplin, Raindrop.io or Readwise Reader, and Export everything turns all your sessions into linked notes in Obsidian, Logseq or Joplin. Exporting again keeps what you wrote in your notes. Data goes straight from your browser to each service with your own token.
Yes. Choose Routine… on a session to open it automatically when the browser starts, or on the days and at the time you choose. Routines belong to each browser and are not synchronized; if your computer was off at that time, the session opens when you turn it on within the next two hours.
Open the shared page in a browser with Smart Tab Saver 4.0.4 or later and choose Save to Smart Tab Saver. The dashboard opens so you can review the pages and save them as a session or to Pocket. Without the extension, use Open all pages.
The Sessions page shows the shortcut currently assigned by your browser and links to Chrome's extension shortcut settings. The suggested key is Ctrl+Shift+Y (Command+Shift+Y on Mac); you can assign another key there if it is unavailable or conflicts with another shortcut.
Only if you have an activated account and choose to receive updates in Account and cloud settings. You can stop them there or through the link in an update email. Your account and sync will still work.
Only if you separately choose to suggest a written comment for publication and provide a public name or alias. We review every proposed comment before it appears; your email is never published, and you can withdraw permission later. You can always send private feedback instead.
Product updates
See what's new in version 4.0.5 and browse earlier milestones.
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