Idle tabs archived with on-device AI summaries. Read Later, group-aware restore, searchable library. Fully private.
Users
8
+3 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#215K
#180K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 13 Apr 2026
Users
monthly, 7 months
Latest, 20 Oct 2026:8 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 7 months
Latest, 20 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About The Tab Economist
Tab Economist watches your open tabs. When you haven't visited a tab for a while, it automatically moves it to your Library — summarized, categorized, and searchable.
FEATURES
• Auto-archive — Tabs idle past your threshold (default 2 hr) are moved to your Library
• AI summaries — Gemini Nano (on-device, Chrome 127+) categorizes and summarizes each page
• Natural language search — "that article about M5 chips" actually finds it
• Focus Mode — Pause all archiving during deep work or presentations
• Read Later — Right-click any page to save it to a dedicated Read Later list
• Suggested tabs — Review idle tabs before they're archived (optional manual mode)
• Undo countdown — A visible 30-second window to cancel any auto-archive
• Just closed — A 5-minute recovery stack for tabs you didn't mean to let go
• Tab Group memory — Restore a stack and its original Chrome Tab Group comes back with it
• Export — Download your Library as Markdown or JSON
• Protected domains — Add any domain to a never-archive list
• Duplicate-free Library — Tracking params stripped so the same page never archives twice
PRIVACY
All data stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics. Sensitive sites (banking, email, medical, password managers) are automatically excluded and never touched. Uninstalling deletes everything.
AI runs entirely on your device via Gemini Nano — your pages are never sent to any server. The extension holds no host permissions and cannot read the contents of any web page.
Free. No subscriptions. No catch.