Open Chrome and ElevenTabs greets you with exactly where you left off. Then it quietly sorts tabs into colour groups, puts idle ones to sleep, and dresses everything in a theme you love. No servers. No accounts. Nothing leaves your computer.
Each time Chrome starts, ElevenTabs shows what you had open, grouped the way you left it. Restore everything, one group or a single tab. You also get a search bar, your top sites, today's numbers, a streak and yesterday's recap.
Every tab lands in the right colour group: Mail, Work, Dev, AI, Jobs, Social. Groups you make yourself are never touched.
Tabs idle for 30 minutes release their memory and wake when you click them. Calls, music and chat stay awake.
Park a whole window as "Job hunt" or "Client work" and bring it back later, groups included.
Time by category, your daily rhythm and top sites, computed on your machine and never uploaded.
Rename categories, pick colours, add your own sites and reorder groups. Export your setup and share it with your team.
Build a sorted copy of your bookmarks without touching the originals. Clear login and OTP junk from history after you review it.
Pick a theme pack, let it change with the time of day (Paper in the morning, Sunset in the evening, Gold at night), or set your own accent colour. Every ElevenTabs page switches instantly.
ElevenTabs is built so it can't leak your work data. These limits are enforced by Chrome itself.
Live counts of tabs, sleeping tabs and duplicates, with one gold button that tidies everything. Shortcuts too:
On Windows use Alt + Shift.
ElevenTabs isn't on the Chrome Web Store yet, so it's added in developer mode. That's safe and takes four steps. Latest: v2.0.0 · all versions & what changed
eleventabs folder somewhere it can stay, like Documents.chrome://extensions into the address bar.eleventabs folder, then pin it from the puzzle icon.eleventabs folder with the new one, then press ↻ on ElevenTabs in chrome://extensions. Your settings, sessions and stats stay. To check your version, look at the bottom of the popup or go to Dashboard → What's new.
Yes. It can't read pages and has no network access, so work content can't leave your computer. Each profile keeps its own data. If your company manages Chrome, IT may block extensions installed in developer mode. In that case, ask them to allow it (the code is open for review), or wait for the Chrome Web Store listing.
No. It opens once when Chrome starts, and from the popup or ⌥⇧W. Your normal new-tab page stays. Switch it off from the page itself or in Settings.
No. Sorting only moves tabs into groups. A sleeping tab stays in place and reloads when you click it, the same as Chrome's Memory Saver. Tabs are only closed when you press "Close duplicates" or "Close all" yourself.
Never. ElevenTabs only manages groups named after its own categories. Groups you create are left exactly as they are.
Your settings, saved sessions and minutes per site name, stored in this Chrome profile only. Page titles and full addresses are never stored for stats. "Erase ElevenTabs data" wipes it all in one click.
That's Chrome's standard notice for extensions installed outside the Web Store. Dismiss it and ElevenTabs keeps working.
Open chrome://extensions and click Remove. Your tabs, bookmarks and history stay as they are.
It's shown at the bottom of the popup, on the Welcome back page and in Dashboard → What's new. Every version and its download are listed on the versions page.
Free, private and open source.