PagewingThe best tab manager extensions for Chrome
Pick Session Buddy if you want a free, local session manager that saves whole windows, recovers them after a crash and searches everything. Pick Toby if you organize links with a team in shared spaces and want them on your phone; its free plan holds 60 tabs and Productivity costs $6 a month billed monthly. Pick Pagewing if you want sessions kept in your account on every computer, with pinned tabs and tab groups intact, crash snapshots, and your other browser tools in the same panel. OneTab is the simplest way to clear a window, Workona suits project workspaces, and Chrome's own tab groups are enough for light use.
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Session Buddy
Best for: people who want a free, local session manager with strong search
A free session manager that saves and restores all your open tabs or the ones you pick, keeps collections with pinning and color coding, recovers tabs after a crash, and searches open tabs, collections and history together.
- Price
- Free, with no price on its site
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Chrome
- Recovers your tabs after a crash
- Search with filters across everything you've saved
- Exports as links, Markdown, CSV or JSON
- Data stays on one computer, with no sync
- No sharing
- Chrome only
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Toby
Best for: teams and people who organize links as a board and want them on their phone
A visual board of saved tabs in collections and spaces, synced to every browser and device you sign in to, shared with teammates, with notes, a to-do list and AI sorting.
- Price
- Starter free; Productivity $6 a member a month billed monthly, or $4.50 billed yearly; Team $10 a member a month billed monthly
- Free plan
- Up to 60 saved tabs, with collections, spaces, notes and sharing
- Runs on
- Chrome extension, web app, iOS and Android
- Shared spaces for a team
- Synced across devices, with phone apps
- Collections you can share as a link for free
- 60 saved tabs on the free plan
- Takes over the new tab page
- Saves tabs, not windows: pinned tabs and tab groups don't come back as they were
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Pagewing
Best for: people who want their sessions on every computer, next to their other browser tools
Sessions in the Pagewing side panel: save one window, every window or the tabs you pick, with pinned tabs, tab groups and window names, kept in your account on every computer, restored in one click, with automatic crash snapshots and imports from OneTab, Toby and Session Buddy.
- Price
- Free plan holds 25 sessions with no cap on tabs; Premium removes the limit and adds share links, and covers the rest of the side panel
- Free plan
- 25 saved sessions, search, crash snapshots, imports and exports
- Runs on
- Chrome extension and the Pagewing website
- Keeps pinned tabs, tab groups and window names
- Big restores open unloaded so Chrome stays fast
- Exports as OneTab text, Markdown, a bookmarks file or CSV
- Chrome only, no phone app
- 25 sessions on the free plan
- Share links need Premium; a young product next to the others
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OneTab
Best for: people who just want to clear a crowded window in one click
The one-click way to collapse every open tab into a list on one page, restore them one at a time or all at once, and share the list as a web page, saving most of the memory those tabs used.
- Price
- Free; its site shows no price
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Chrome and Firefox
- One click to clear a window
- Export and import your list as text
- Nothing leaves your computer unless you share
- Lists live in one browser, so a reset or a new computer can lose them
- No search or sync
- No pinned tabs or tab groups
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Workona
Best for: people who switch between several projects a day
Workspaces for projects: each space holds its tabs, resources and notes, sessions save automatically with backups, and spaces can be shared with a team.
- Price
- Pro and Team plans; the pricing page showed no amounts when we read it
- Free plan
- Its pricing page lists Pro, Team and Enterprise plans and no free plan
- Runs on
- Chrome, with a web app
- Sessions save themselves, with 90-day backups on Pro
- Resources and notes live with each project
- Shared spaces on Team
- No free plan on its pricing page
- Built for projects; heavier than a session list
- Prices aren't shown on its pricing page
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Chrome's tab groups
Best for: light use, with nothing to install
Built into Chrome: group tabs by name and color, collapse them, and keep closed groups in the bookmarks bar, synced to the devices signed in to your Google account.
- Price
- Free, part of Chrome
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Chrome on every platform
- Nothing to install
- Saved groups sync with your Google account
- Groups move between windows
- No sessions of whole windows
- No search across saved groups, notes or sharing
- No crash recovery beyond Chrome's own restore
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Tab Manager Plus
Best for: people with hundreds of tabs open who need to find and sort them, not save them
A free popup that shows every open tab across every window, filters them as you type, moves tabs between windows, highlights duplicates and opens a new window once you pass a tab limit you set.
- Price
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Chrome
- Every window's tabs in one view
- Finds duplicates and recent tabs
- A tab limit per window
- Manages open tabs; it doesn't save sessions
- No sync or sharing
- Chrome only
Prices and features as read on each app's own site in October 2026, billed monthly in US dollars unless said otherwise. They change: check there before you decide.
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What's the difference between a tab manager and a session manager?
A tab manager like Tab Manager Plus helps you find and sort the tabs that are open now. A session manager like Session Buddy, Toby or Pagewing saves tabs to bring back later, as named sessions or collections. Pagewing does both: it saves sessions and lists every open tab to switch, close, pin, mute or close duplicates.
Which tab managers are free?
Session Buddy, OneTab, Tab Manager Plus and Chrome's tab groups are free with no paid plan. Toby's free plan holds 60 saved tabs, and Pagewing's holds 25 sessions with no cap on tabs. Workona has paid Pro and Team plans.
Will I lose my saved tabs if I reinstall Chrome or get a new computer?
With OneTab and Session Buddy you can, since they keep everything in one browser; export regularly. Toby, Workona and Pagewing keep saved tabs in your account, so you sign in and they're there. Chrome's saved tab groups sync with your Google account.
Which one recovers my tabs after a crash?
Session Buddy and Pagewing save your open windows automatically, so you can bring back what was open when Chrome closed. Workona saves sessions as you go. Chrome's own "Restore" works for the last session only.
Can I move my saved tabs from OneTab or Toby to another manager?
Yes. OneTab exports its list as text, Toby and Session Buddy export JSON, and Pagewing imports all three as sessions. Pagewing exports back out as OneTab text, Markdown, a bookmarks file, CSV or JSON, so you're never locked in.
Is Pagewing free?
Yes. Every tool works on the free plan, with a few limits. Premium removes the limits and adds features like share links, PDF signatures and cloud storage, for every tool at once. Pro adds Office conversions, bookmark cleanups and AI summaries and branding for recordings on top. You only add a card if you decide to upgrade.
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