The Chrome tab manager that brings your tabs back
Chrome restarted without your tabs? Nest offers them back in one click. Close a window and Nest keeps a copy, so closing stops feeling like losing. Categories, snooze and notes keep the rest in order.
No account needed · Pro adds unlimited sessions, 30-day Automatic Session history and cloud syncIt works when you forget it exists.
Most tab managers wait to be opened. Autopilot doesn’t: it notices a restart that dropped your tabs and offers them back, saves the windows and tab groups you close, and — if you switch them on — closes duplicate tabs and suspends or tidies away the tabs you stopped using, with Undo. Free, no account.
Closing a window stops being a decision
Reopen a window Nest saved when you closed it, restore what you shut by accident, roll back to a local snapshot, and save up to three named sessions — all free, no account. Pro makes sessions unlimited and adds cross-device sync and 30-day Automatic Session history.
- Windows and tab groups you close, saved for you (7 days free, 30 on Pro)free
- One-click restore for recently closed tabsfree
- A Vault of automatic local snapshots, taken before big changesfree
- Three named sessions free; unlimited on Profree
- Backups as a readable HTML page or portable JSONfree
Sort a domain once. Never sort it again.
Pin any domain to a category and every future tab from that site routes there on its own. Categories mirror Chrome’s native tab groups, so nothing lives in a private silo.
- Domain rules with auto-suggested categories
- Runs in Chrome's side panel, so the list stays open while you browse
- Multi-window aware — a letter badge shows where a tab lives
- Snooze or restore an entire group at once
Later is a place, not a pile
Send a tab away until tonight, Saturday, or a date you pick — it comes back on its own. Attach a note so you remember why you kept it in the first place.
How snoozing works →Waiting on Dana’s sizing chart before ordering. Check the return window — ends the 14th.
If you already use one of these
Most tab extensions do one of recovery, grouping, or snoozing. Nest is the one that does all three plus notes.
| Capability | Nest | OneTab | Session Buddy | Workona | Toby |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Save & restore sessions | Full support | Full support | Full support | Full support | Full support |
| Syncs with Chrome's native tab groups | Full support | Not supported | Not supported | Partial support | Not supported |
| Snooze tabs to a time | Full support | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Notes on individual tabs | Full support | Not supported | Not supported | Partial support | Partial support |
| Offers lost tabs back after a Chrome restart | Full support | Not supported | Partial support | Partial support | Not supported |
| Export as HTML and JSON | Full support | Partial support | Full support | Not supported | Partial support |
- Local-first by default
- Tab data stays in Chrome until you explicitly turn sync on.
- No page reading
- Nest works from tab addresses and titles. It never reads what is on a page.
- Quiet notices
- Autopilot’s notifications show counts, never page titles, so nothing private sits in your notification centre.
Close tabs without the worry
Install it, switch on Autopilot on the welcome page, and close a window you would normally keep open just in case. Nest keeps a copy. Nothing to sign up for.
Add to Chrome — freeFree core extension · Autopilot included · sync when you choose