TabNoodle

You have 47 tabs open. You don't remember opening most of them. TabNoodle scores every tab and tells you which 12 actually matter. One click. It's done. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tabs don't close themselves. Every single one burns about 50 MB of your laptop's memory, and somewhere in there is the article you actually wanted to read. TabNoodle is a free Chrome extension that ends the guilt. Open the popup. It reads every tab across every window, scores them by type and engagement, and tells you — clearly, specifically — what to keep, what to archive, and what to close. Confirm, and your browser is clean. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Everything runs locally on your machine. ━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━ Click the TabNoodle icon. You'll see: How many tabs you have open, across how many windows A "Keeping" count and a "Closing" count — the verdict, at a glance Your current aggressiveness setting (Gentle, Balanced, or Ruthless) Four action buttons: Auto Group, Review Tabs, Auto Clean, and Swipe Mode Pick one. That's the whole workflow. Every cleanup has full undo. Nothing is ever gone for good. ━━━ FEATURES ━━━ ONE-CLICK AUTO CLEAN The fastest path. TabNoodle applies its scoring engine at your chosen aggressiveness level and closes the low-value tabs immediately. Takes about half a second, even on heavy sessions. Respects pinned tabs (never closed) Respects audible tabs (your music survives) Respects the active tab (your current work survives) Protects tabs you've touched in the last few minutes If you don't like the result, hit Ctrl+Shift+T or use the in-extension undo. REVIEW MODE For when you want to see every decision before confirming. TabNoodle groups your tabs by category (Docs, Email, AI, Dev, Media, Tools, Searches, Shopping, and more) and shows you exactly which tabs fall into which bucket. You can: Rescue any individual tab with one click Close an entire category with "close all" See which tabs have been flagged for closing and why Confirm the whole cleanup once you're happy This is the mode most people end up preferring. It takes 30 seconds and you stay in control. SWIPE MODE For when you have 50 tabs and zero patience. TabNoodle shows you one tab at a time — the favicon, the title, the URL, the category. You swipe: Left arrow to close Right arrow to keep Or use ← / → on your keyboard Like a dating app, but for browser tabs. A full cleanup of 50 tabs takes about 90 seconds. AUTO-GROUPING TabNoodle reads your tabs and files them into Chrome's native tab groups by category: Docs — Notion, Google Docs, Confluence, Dropbox Paper Articles — blog posts, long reads, newsletters Media — YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, HBO Max, streaming Tools — GitHub, Figma, Linear, Supabase, dev tools Searches — Google results and search pages Email — Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail Shopping — Amazon, eBay, marketplace sites AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity Social — Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Reddit Your tab bar goes from chaos to categorized in one click. WINDOW CONSOLIDATION Three Chrome windows? Five? Twelve? Merge them into one with a single click. Respects your Chrome profiles, so work tabs and personal tabs stay separate when you've set that up. MEDIA AUTO-PAUSE When you open the TabNoodle popup, any playing media pauses automatically. No more jumpscares from that video you forgot was buffering in another window. The now-playing indicator shows you which tab is making noise before you close it. AGGRESSIVENESS SLIDER You set the dial. GENTLE — Closes duplicate tabs and long-forgotten searches. Keeps anything you've touched in the last hour. Clears about 20% of tabs. BALANCED — Clears media, profile pickers, and low-engagement tabs. Keeps your Docs, Tools, and active research. Clears about 50% of tabs. This is the default. RUTHLESS — If it's not pinned, audible, or the active tab, it's gone. For when you really need to start fresh. Clears about 80% of tabs. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Every major action has a shortcut: G — Auto Group R — Review Tabs C — Auto Clean S — Swipe Mode Chrome's own shortcuts still work. Ctrl+Shift+T restores your most recently closed tabs. STATS TabNoodle keeps a running count of: Total tabs cleaned Total cleanup sessions Your member-since date It's a small, stupid metric that turns out to be oddly satisfying. No shame in it. ━━━ PRIVACY BY DESIGN ━━━ TabNoodle is the kind of extension that shouldn't need to phone home — so it doesn't. WHAT LEAVES YOUR BROWSER: Nothing. WHAT WE COLLECT: Nothing. WHAT WE STORE ON OUR SERVERS: We don't have servers. Specifics: No accounts. There is no sign-up. There is no login. We don't know who you are, and we don't want to. No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Segment, no Sentry, no anything. Your usage patterns are yours. No telemetry. We don't track which features you use, how often you use them, or when. No tab data transmitted. Your tab titles and URLs stay on your machine. Always. No ads. The extension is free because it's cheap to run (it runs on your computer, not ours), not because your attention is the product. No third-party SDKs. We don't bundle anyone else's tracking code. All scoring, grouping, and classification happens locally in your browser. The extension has no backend — there is literally no server to compromise. Source code: the extension does not obfuscate its JavaScript. Review it yourself if you want. Chrome Web Store also makes the source available to verified researchers. ━━━ WHO IT'S FOR ━━━ TabNoodle is built for people who: Live in their browser all day Have ever said "I'll close these later" about a window with 40+ tabs Research-heavy workers: developers, writers, analysts, consultants, grad students People who keep tabs open as a to-do list and then the to-do list becomes the problem Anyone who's ever had their laptop fan spin up because Chrome ate all the RAM People who care about privacy and don't want yet another extension phoning home TabNoodle is probabl…