Best alternatives to Tab Session Manager (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Tab Session Manager, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Tab Session Manager: reviews, users and permissions Best Functionality & UI extensions

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≈100K users3.5★ from 449 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago7 permissions

Tab Session Manager alternatives, compared

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Tabmanager.io - Tab Session Manager
Manage, save and restore your windows, tabs and sessions.
≈9K users4.0★ from 125 ratingsUpdated 18 months ago6 permissions
- About 11× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.5 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (6 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Save Tabs - Browser Session Manager
A password-protected tab saver and session manager to store tabs in the current window, or all windows with tab grouping support
≈3K users3.6★ from 20 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago8 permissions
- About 33× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 7)
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Toby: Tab Manager & Session Saver
Too many tabs? Save them in one click, organize them into collections, and restore any session later, on any device.
≈300K users4.2★ from 3.3K ratingsNo special permissions
- About 3.0× more users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.7 stars higher
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Tab manager & session manager TabXpert
Auto-saved sessions. Tab groups support. Cloud sync.
≈10K users4.4★ from 428 ratingsUpdated 8 days ago12 permissions
- About 10× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.9 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (12 vs 7)
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Smart Sessions - Tab Manager
Save & restore your browser sessions. Auto saving, multiple sessions and more.
≈6K users4.1★ from 72 ratingsUpdated 16 months ago5 permissions
- About 17× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.6 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 7)
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Session Buddy - Tab & Bookmark Manager
Save and restore sessions, manage tabs and bookmarks, and stay organized with a powerful and trusted privacy-first session manager.
≈1M users4.7★ from 25.1K ratingsUpdated 6 months ago4 permissions
- About 10× more users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 1.1 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Partizion — Tab and Session Manager
Tab & Session manager — ✨ Auto-updating tab collections, ☁️ Cloud synced sessions.
≈2K users4.2★ from 143 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago8 permissions
- About 50× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.7 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Save Tab Groups for Tab Session Manager
Additional extension for saving tab groups in Tab Session Manager
≈20K users2.8★ from 40 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago1 permissions
- About 5.0× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Rated 0.7 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Tab manager
Easily arrange your Chrome tabs in layouts of tiled sub-windows.
≈2K users3.0★ from 5 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago8 permissions
- About 50× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 7)
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Stem – Visual Tab Session Manager
Visually organise crowded tab sessions with nested groups and a graph map.
≈6K users5.0★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago5 permissions
- About 17× fewer users than Tab Session Manager
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 7)
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Tab Session Manager alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Tab Session Manager?

By users, the most popular alternative is Session Buddy - Tab & Bookmark Manager with ≈1M users and a 4.7-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Tabmanager.io - Tab Session Manager.

Which Tab Session Manager alternative has the best rating?

Session Buddy - Tab & Bookmark Manager has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.7 out of 5 from 25.1K ratings.

Is there a Tab Session Manager alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

Toby: Tab Manager & Session Saver asks for 0 permissions, against 7 for Tab Session Manager.

How many alternatives to Tab Session Manager are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Tab Session Manager on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

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