Tabwell

A well-organized home for your tabs. Modern tab/session manager with full tab group support.

Tabwell is a local-first session manager for Chrome that finally treats tab groups as first-class citizens. Save a snapshot of every open tab — with its group title, color, and collapsed state intact — and restore the exact layout in one click. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. WHY TABWELL EXISTS Most session managers (OneTab, Session Buddy, Tab Session Manager) were built before Chrome shipped native tab groups. They save a flat list of URLs and throw your grouping away. Tabwell snapshots the full structure: groups stay grouped, colors stay colored, collapsed groups stay collapsed when you reopen them. TOP 5 FEATURES • Full tab group fidelity — title, color, collapsed state preserved across save and restore. • One-click snapshots — keyboard shortcut, side-panel button, or right-click menu. • Local-first storage — snapshots live in IndexedDB on your device. No account, no cloud copy of your tab data. • Search and import during trial/Pro — find any saved title or URL, then bring history over from OneTab, Session Buddy, and Tab Session Manager. • Crash recovery and auto-snapshots — Free uses the safe 60-minute interval; Pro unlocks 5, 15, 30, or 60-minute intervals. TABWELL vs THE ALTERNATIVES • vs OneTab — OneTab consolidates tabs into a list and discards their group membership. Tabwell preserves the group structure exactly. • vs Session Buddy — Session Buddy stores windows but ignores tab groups; restoring loses the visual organization. Tabwell restores groups with their original colors and collapsed state. • vs Tab Session Manager — TSM saves windows and tabs but treats groups as ad-hoc metadata. Tabwell makes groups the unit of organization. • vs Workona — Workona is cloud-first and account-based; Tabwell is local-first and free for everyday use. HOW IT WORKS 1. Click the Tabwell icon (or press Alt+T) to open the side panel. 2. Hit "Save snapshot" — Tabwell captures every open tab, group, and window state. 3. Whenever you need them back, click the snapshot and choose Restore in current window or Restore in new window. PRIVACY & SUPPORT • 100% local-first — your tab data never leaves your browser. No analytics, no telemetry, no remote logging. • Zero account required — install and use immediately. No sign-up, no email collection. • Billing is handled by Polar — Tabwell stores license metadata only, never your tab URLs or titles. • Crash reports (when enabled) are anonymized via Hawk.so — URLs and titles are stripped before upload. • Human support — email support@tabwell.org for bugs, questions, and feature requests. PRICING • Free tier after trial — keep the latest 5 snapshots, manually save and restore sessions, export backups, and use 60-minute auto-snapshots. • 14-day free trial of Pro on install — try every Pro feature with no credit card required. • Pro Monthly — $3.99/month — unlimited snapshots, advanced search, third-party importers, auto-snapshots up to every 5 minutes, priority email support. • Pro Annual — $29/year — same Pro features, two months free vs monthly. • Pro Lifetime — $59 one-time — same Pro features, no recurring charge, free updates forever. • Founders Lifetime — $19 one-time — first 1000 buyers only, identical to Pro Lifetime, gone once the founder slots are sold out. SUPPORT • Email: support@tabwell.org • Privacy policy: tabwell.org/privacy • Terms: tabwell.org/terms Tabwell is for anyone who has ever lost a perfectly organized window to a crash, a restart, or "save these tabs for later" wishful thinking. Install once, save a snapshot, and your tab groups stop being fragile.