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
Click any group to open it; the rest collapse automatically. Only one group is expanded at a time, so the 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 group: filter tabs, jump to any tab, mute noisy ones, and reorder with drag & drop.
Snapshot your groups as a named session and bring them back anytime. Optional sync carries them to your other computers.
Download your sessions 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.
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.
Privacy
Cat Tabs runs entirely in your browser. It has no servers of its own — your settings, favorites, and saved sessions are stored locally in Chrome.
Two things move data only when you choose to: turning on sync stores your sessions in your own Chrome account so they reach your other computers, and Export writes a file that you control. Nothing leaves your machine otherwise.
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 managing everything 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.
Live group cards, tab filtering, favorites and pinned tabs, saved sessions, 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 session sync uses your own Chrome account, optional export saves a file you control, and payment is handled securely by Stripe through ExtPay.
Yes. You can save your groups as named sessions and restore them anytime. Optional sync carries sessions 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.
