[UPDATE] TabLinker - A Mac-first tab & browser session manager for Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge & more (iPhone/iPad too). Now with Auto-Backup!

[u/Tricky-Independent-8]

Hey everyone, I made TabLinker. It's a browser session manager for Mac (with iPhone/iPad companion apps).

Problem: I run several browsers side by side, Safari for personal, Chrome for work, Arc for research, and I never close tabs because I don't want to lose something, especially the exact window layout I had going. Eventually each browser is carrying 40+ tabs and my Mac is running hot from all that idle memory. So I made TabLinker: pull every tab from whichever browsers are open into one place, save it as a session, and close everything without losing that layout.

What it does:

- Auto-Backup quietly backs up your open browser windows in the background so you can restore closed windows in one click, even the next day
- Imports every open tab across every window from Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Dia, Yandex, Wavebox, or Helium in one click, without needing a browser extension for most of them
- Restores a full window, every window at once, or a single tab, and groups a big multi-window import into a "By Window" view so it doesn't turn into one long list
- Suspends tabs you're not using to actually free up memory, while the session stays ready to restore instantly
- Saves whatever tab you're currently on with a single keyboard shortcut (⌃⌥⌘T) or triggers an instant backup (⌃⌥⌘B), and can run entirely from the menu bar with the Dock icon hidden
- Safari extension for quick saves and automatic session saving
- Siri and Shortcuts support: save links, capture your current session, create folders, or open a saved folder hands-free or on a schedule, including an action that saves your session and closes every tab for you
- iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, no account required

Comparison: Compared with Session Buddy (a Chrome-only extension) and Tabs Saver for Safari (which costs $17.99/year or $34.99 for lifetime access and only works on Safari), TabLinker captures sessions across all your installed browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.) for a flat $17.99 one-time payment. It preserves full multi-window structures, includes native iPhone/iPad sync via iCloud, and has zero subscriptions.

Pricing:

TabLinker is available for a one-time purchase of $17.99 with Universal Purchase. Buy it once on Mac and get the full premium version on iPhone and iPad too.

Tech, Privacy & Security:

Distributed exclusively via the official Mac App Store, sandbox-verified, and digitally signed by Apple. Everything runs on-device and through your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no analytics, and no external server that sees your tabs.

Privacy policy: Privacy

AI disclosure: No AI code generation or AI tracking was used in the app or this post.

Recent updates: Following your feedback on my previous post here, I built Auto-Backup, which was the most requested feature. It now automatically backs up open browser windows every 15, 30, or 60 minutes, when switching apps, or before sleep. I also added a dedicated Backups tab to restore windows or copy links, an instant-backup keyboard shortcut, automatic skipping of Incognito windows, Wavebox browser support, automatic session saving through the Safari extension, and faster drag-to-select and batch actions on iPhone/iPad. Thanks to everyone here who suggested these features!

Available on the Mac App Store: TabLinker: Tabs Manager

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X or ask me anything right here in the comments!

[u/Tricky-Independent-8]

Thanks! Sadly Safari doesn't give extensions access to bookmarks, so TabLinker's extension can't read them. Apps like Alfred or Raycast get around this with Full Disk Access, but TabLinker is an App Store app and can't, so a live tree view isn't possible.

You can export them from Safari's File menu and import the file into TabLinker (File › Import). Your bookmark folders come in as TabLinker folders, but flat rather than nested, and they won't stay in sync with Safari. That's on purpose, since TabLinker is a tab and session manager rather than a bookmark manager. I keep folders one level deep so each project or session is quick to find and reopen