History Tools — Browsing History, Archived

Chrome remembers 90 days. History Tools remembers everything — searchable, exportable, and never leaving your machine.

Chrome shows you the last 90 days of your history. Everything before that stops being reachable — not archived somewhere, just gone from the only place you can search. History Tools keeps it. Every page you visit is mirrored into a database on your own machine, indexed for full-text search, and kept after Chrome lets go. Pages Chrome has dropped are marked "rescued", so you can see the archive earning its keep. WHAT IT DOES • Archives beyond 90 days — a local mirror of your history that Chrome cannot expire. Import an existing Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari history file to bring in years you thought were lost. • Search that finds things — SQLite full-text search with a real query syntax: site:github.com, after:30d, is:typed, visits:>5, "exact phrase". Chinese is indexed by bigram rather than by character, and pinyin initials work too. • Journeys — Chrome records which page led you to which, and then throws it away. History Tools stitches those links back together, so an afternoon of research reads as what it was: a question, and everywhere it led. • Insights — a year of browsing as a heat map, the hours you actually browse, the sites you actually visit, and the sessions that wandered furthest. • Your data leaves with you — export to JSON, CSV or Markdown at any time. No lock-in, because there is nothing to be locked into. PRIVACY There is no server. No account, no sign-in, no telemetry, no network requests of any kind. Your history is read by the extension, written to a database on your disk, and never sent anywhere. The extension requests no host permissions at all — it cannot read the content of the pages you visit. Site icons are an optional permission you can grant later from inside the app, or never. TEN LANGUAGES English, 中文, Español, العربية, Français, Português, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Русский — switchable in the app, independent of your browser's language. Arabic is fully right-to-left. UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1 This is the same extension, rebuilt. Nothing to migrate and no new permission warnings: it updates silently and starts archiving on its own.