Cat Tabs
A calmer way to work in Chrome
Cat Tabs
A calmer way to work in Chrome
Cat Tabs turns Chrome’s tab groups into a tidy accordion: click a group and it opens while the others fold away, so your tab strip stays calm no matter how many you keep.
What you get
Cat Tabs builds on Chrome’s own Tab Groups, so each project gets its own space. Open one and the rest fold away — then run the whole thing from a dashboard.
Click any group to open it; the rest collapse automatically. Only one project is expanded at a time, so the tab strip never sprawls.
Choose what a click does: jump straight into a group, or peek at it without losing your place. Flip modes with a keyboard shortcut.
A live home screen for every project: filter tabs, jump to any tab, mute noisy ones, and reorder with drag & drop.
Take a snapshot to save a workspace, and bring the whole set of groups back anytime. Optional sync carries snapshots to your other computers.
Download your snapshots to a file you own — a private backup, and an easy way to move them between machines.
A cat keeps you company on the dashboard. Pick ginger, calico, persian, siamese, or tuxedo — or hide it.
Built for focus
Developers, designers, researchers, students, and anyone juggling several projects at once — Cat Tabs keeps each context in its own tab group instead of one endless strip.
Separate coding, docs, and AI tools into focused workspaces — and jump back into the exact tab you left off in for each one.
Keep research, inspiration, and active project tabs organized by context, so switching gears doesn’t mean digging through dozens of tabs.
Manage your current browsing session from one dashboard, and take a snapshot to save your workspace and reopen it whenever you need it.
Pricing
The core organizer, free forever.
Everything, forever. No subscription.
Cat Tabs is free to install from the Chrome Web Store. A single $9.99 payment unlocks the full dashboard for good — there’s no subscription and no account to create. Payments are handled securely through Stripe.
At a glance
FAQ
Cat Tabs is a Chrome extension that turns Chrome’s built-in Tab Groups into a tidy accordion: click a group and it opens while the others fold away, so your tab strip stays calm. A one-time upgrade adds a full dashboard for running every project from one screen.
Yes. Cat Tabs builds directly on Chrome’s native Tab Groups and never changes your group names or colors — it only controls which group is expanded.
The core organizer is free forever: accordion groups, Switch and Peek click modes, keyboard shortcuts, and the pinned Home tab. A one-time $9.99 payment unlocks the dashboard. There is no subscription.
The Workspace Dashboard adds live group cards, tab filtering, favorites and pinned tabs, saved snapshots, recently closed tabs, an audio finder, drag-and-drop organizing, and a sidebar with your bookmarks and Google apps.
No. Cat Tabs has no servers of its own, and your settings and dashboard data are stored locally in Chrome. Optional snapshot sync uses your own Chrome account, optional export saves a file you control, and payment is handled securely by Stripe through ExtPay.
Yes. Take a snapshot to save your open groups as a workspace and restore it anytime. Optional sync carries snapshots to your other computers through your Chrome account, and you can export or import them as a file.
Yes. Cat Tabs uses Chrome’s keyboard commands, such as Option+S to switch modes, and you can customize them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Yes. The cat companion is optional — pick from five cats or hide it entirely.
Privacy
Cat Tabs runs entirely in your browser. It has no servers of its own — your settings, favorites, and saved snapshots are stored locally in Chrome.
Two things move data only when you choose to: turning on sync stores your snapshots in your own Chrome account so they reach your other computers, and Export writes a file that you control. Nothing leaves your machine otherwise.
Ready to work in projects, not tabs? Cat Tabs turns Chrome Tab Groups into focused workspaces — free to install, $9.99 one-time to unlock everything.
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