Six hundred tabs isn't a character flaw.
It's a filing problem.
BusyTab scans everything you have open, shows you the evidence that a tab went stale months ago, and closes the dead weight in bulk. Every close is archived first, so nothing is ever actually lost.
Coming to the Chrome Web Store Free forever for the full triage loop · Pro is a $19 Founders LTD at launch, never a subscriptionIllustration of the real interface. Screenshots land with the launch build.
Why closing feels dangerous
You don't keep 600 tabs open because you need them. You keep them because closing feels like losing.
Every tab hoarder knows the bargain: the tab stays open just in case. Multiply by months and Chrome becomes a haunted house. Slow, cluttered, and somehow still too risky to clean. BusyTab breaks the bargain from both ends. It shows you evidence that a tab is abandoned, and it makes closing reversible. When nothing can be lost, closing stops being scary.
Two honest scores, never blended
Every tab gets two independent numbers: Stale, how long since you actually looked at it, and Safe to close, how sure BusyTab is that closing costs you nothing. Look at the third row in the illustration. A half-finished refinance application scores 85 for stale, and BusyTab still rates it 12 for safe, because a deep URL with a form is not something to gamble on. A single blended score would eventually eat something you needed. Hover any row and it shows its reasoning.
Archived before closed. Always.
Every close writes the full batch to a local archive first: URLs, titles, scores, timestamp. Then it closes. Undo appears instantly, and any batch reopens in a new window, whether it's been an hour or a month. Pinned tabs are refused at the action layer even if a bug tries to select one. Safety isn't a feature here. It's the construction method.
Built for hundreds, not dozens
Triage at the scale your browser actually is
The window strip
One slab per Chrome window, sized by tab count, filled amber by its share of stale tabs. The graveyard window announces itself. Click to filter.
Group select-all
Select all 116 tabs from one site with one checkbox while the other five hundred stay untouched. Duplicates and parked homepages are counted and bulk-closable too.
Resumable triage
Keep and Snooze decisions persist across restarts. Work the pile in ten-minute bursts over a week without re-deciding a single tab.
Projects with rules
A project is a name plus rules. Matching tabs join automatically, and one tab can belong to several projects. Consolidate a project into one named, colored window, or file it into a bookmarks box when the research is done.
Snooze, Keep, Free memory
Not ready to decide? Snooze resurfaces a tab later. Keep silences suggestions for it. Free memory unloads it from RAM while it stays right there in your tab strip.
See the real cost, in gigabytes
BusyTab estimates the memory your selection is holding, and can measure how much browser storage each open site hoards. Some sites quietly sit on gigabytes. Yours might be one click from finding out.
Pricing
The rescue is free. The system is one payment, ever.
Free
$0 forever
- The complete triage loop, uncapped
- Both scores, all piles, window strip
- Archive every close · restore any batch
- Snooze, Keep, Peek, Free memory
- 2 projects · 1 filing box
- Storage measurement: top 3 sites
No account. No card. No nagging.
Pro: Founders LTD
$19 once, forever · launch price, $29 after · never a subscription
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited projects and filing boxes
- Full storage measurement, every open site
- Archive export (JSON)
- Scheduled automation, as it ships
14-day free trial, no card required. Payments by ExtensionPay.
Questions people actually ask
FAQ
Is having too many tabs open actually a problem?
Two real ones. Memory: every live tab holds RAM, and hundreds of tabs can hold gigabytes, which is why Chrome feels slow long before it says so. Attention: a tab strip you can't read is a to-do list you can't finish. BusyTab attacks both, and its Free memory action solves the first without closing anything.
What happens if BusyTab closes something I needed?
You reopen it. Every close is written to the archive first, with URLs, titles, when, and why. Any batch restores into a fresh window with one click, whether it's been an hour or a month. "Oops" is a supported workflow.
How does it know which tabs I stopped using?
Your own visit history, read locally. A tab you haven't looked at in 94 days scores very stale; a tab from this morning doesn't. A second, separate score judges whether closing is safe. A homepage is; a half-filled form is not. Every score shows its reasons on hover.
Does BusyTab see my browsing data?
It reads tab titles, addresses, and visit times inside your browser. It never reads page contents, and nothing is transmitted anywhere. The one network request in the entire extension is the Pro license check to our payment provider. The privacy policy is short because there's little to disclose.
Why is Pro a one-time purchase and not a subscription?
Because BusyTab has no servers, no accounts, and no monthly costs to pass on. You buy the tool, you own the tool. If we ever ship something with real ongoing costs, it will be its own optional thing. Nothing you bought moves behind a new fee.
Private by design
No analytics. No telemetry. No page-content access. Everything BusyTab knows lives and dies in your browser. Its only network request is the Pro license check to extensionpay.com, and the privacy policy says exactly that, in plain English, in about a minute of reading.