I had the same problem every developer, researcher, and perpetually-curious person has: too many tabs, and no clean way to deal with them.
On any given day I’d have forty, sixty, sometimes eighty tabs open across a couple of windows. Articles I meant to read. Docs I was halfway through. A GitHub PR, three Figma files, a Notion board, and a Gmail tab I was scared to close in case I lost my place. My laptop fan would spin up. Chrome would eat my RAM. And every time I restarted, I’d lose the entire mental map of what I was working on.
I tried everything already out there
I genuinely did. I installed extension after extension hoping one of them would just fix it.
Every single one had a catch. One wanted me to create an account before I could save a single tab. Another quietly phoned home with my browsing data — the exact thing I was trying to keep private. A third was bloated with features I’d never touch, buried the one thing I needed under five menus, and then asked me to upgrade to a paid plan to unlock it.
I didn’t want a SaaS product. I didn’t want a subscription. I didn’t want to hand over my tab history to someone’s analytics dashboard. I just wanted a fast, private tool that helped me manage my tabs and then got out of the way.
So I stopped looking and built the one I actually wanted.
What I wanted it to be
I had a short, stubborn list of rules from day one:
- Private by default. No servers, no accounts, no analytics. Everything stays in your browser’s local storage and never leaves your device.
- Fast and lightweight. It should feel like part of the browser, not a heavy app bolted on top.
- Genuinely useful. Not a pile of features for a screenshot — just the handful of tools I reached for every single day.
- Free. No premium tier, no locked features, no upsell.
That list became TabLoom.
What it actually does
TabLoom started as a weekend project and turned into something I now use every day. It does five things, all from one tidy popup:
- Copy tabs as plain URLs, Markdown, JSON, or Title + URL — perfect for dropping into notes or a bug report.
- Open links in bulk from a pasted list, with Smart Paste that pulls URLs out of messy text.
- Transfer tabs by exporting and importing them as files — no cloud required.
- Save sessions as named snapshots you can restore after a crash or a restart.
- Sleep tabs to free up RAM instantly, then wake them exactly where they were.
None of it touches a server. None of it asks who you are.
Software should give you control, not take it away. TabLoom will always be free, always be private, and always put the user — not a business model — first.
Where it’s going
TabLoom is still early, and I’m building it in the open. Tab Groups support, session search, scheduled wake-ups, and eventually Firefox and Arc are all on the roadmap. But the core promise won’t change: a private, lightweight companion that gives you back control of your browser.
If you’ve ever stared at a wall of tabs and felt that low hum of dread — this was built for you. And for me.
— Muzammil