Tab manager that shows which background tabs finished loading, plus duplicate and stale tab detection. Fully local.
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1.0.0
updated 1 Sep 2026
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About Tab Ready
Tab manager for people who open a lot of tabs. Open six links in the background and
you normally cannot tell which have finished loading, so you sit and watch, or click
through every one. Tab Ready puts the answer on your toolbar, and gives you a
searchable list of every tab while it is there.
Nothing gets closed, suspended or moved unless you turn on grouping yourself, and
that is off by default. It tells you things. It does not tidy up after you.
Three permissions: tabs, storage, sidePanel. No host permissions. No content scripts
anywhere in the package, free or paid. Nothing is transmitted, and there is no
account.
It handles hundreds of open tabs. Quit and reopen with your session restored and it
starts clean rather than showing you stale rows from last time.
FREE, WITH NO CAP
Every tab in the window you are working in, however many that is. No metered
allowance, no greyed-out rows held back for an upgrade.
- A count on the toolbar icon: tabs that finished while you were not looking and you
have not got to yet.
- Search the list by title or site, and click any row to jump straight there.
- Mark a tab seen without going to it, so the count clears once you have dealt with it.
- A spinner for loading, a check for ready, a quiet ring for tabs already open before
you installed. The shapes differ as well as the colours, so it works if you do not
see red and green the same way.
- A pulse the moment a tab finishes, so a glance is enough.
- Skip pinned tabs, or tabs playing audio, if you would rather they stayed out of it.
"Ready" means the page finished loading, the same signal that stops Chrome's own
spinner. On a slow connection a page can report finished while parts are still
arriving, and Tab Ready reports what Chrome reports.
PRO, ONE PAYMENT
Some of this you can find free elsewhere. What is different here is that it all sits
in one tool that leaves your tabs alone, instead of four extensions and four
permission grants, most of which close things.
- Every window in one list, not just the one you are in.
- A desktop alert the moment a tab is ready. Open something slow, go and do something
else, get told when it finishes.
- Duplicate detection across every window. It ignores the things that do not change
which page you are on, so two links to the same article still count as duplicates
even when one has tracking parameters stuck on the end. Every copy is flagged
equally and nothing is closed for you.
- A flag on anything ready and still unvisited after a wait you choose, 1 to 60
minutes.
- Optional grouping of finished tabs into a native "Ready" group, and on into "Stale"
once they have sat too long. Off by default. It only ever moves tabs that are
ungrouped or already in a group it made. Chrome keeps grouped tabs side by side, so
switching this on does reorder that part of your tab strip. That is the one feature
here that moves anything, and it waits for you to ask.
- Narrow tracking to only the sites you list, if you only care about a few.
US$7.99 once. Not a subscription, nothing to cancel. Refunds are self-service within
14 days from the refund page, using the code from your confirmation email. No email,
no explaining yourself.
Alerts and grouping each need one extra Chrome permission. Chrome asks at the moment
you switch that feature on, never at install, and never on the free tier. You can take
them back whenever you like.
WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO
It does not read the content of any page. It runs no script on any website. There are
no content scripts in it at all. It does not sync or phone home. Each tab's address
and title are stored on your device only, for as long as that tab is open, and the
record is deleted when you close the tab.
Privacy policy: https://tab-ready.netlify.app/privacy
Support: support@voxsanity.com.au
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