Best alternatives to Tabatha: Visual Tab Switcher with Live Previews (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Tabatha, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Tabatha alternatives, compared
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TabGlance - Visual Tab Switcher | Alt-Tab Thumbnail Previews
Visual Alt+Tab for Chromium-based browsers: thumbnail previews, MRU order, instant tab search, and quick swap. Switch tabs by sight.
218 users4.3★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago4 permissions- About 4.6× fewer users than Tabatha
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Tab Flick Lite ✨ — switch your tabs fast, like on Windows or macOS
Switch tabs like apps — hold ⌃Tab for a visual switcher with live previews of your recent tabs.
964 users5.0★ from 20 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago5 permissions- A similar number of users to Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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Last Active Tab Switcher
Switch to the previously active tab when closing the current tab, and provide a tab history menu.
104 users4.2★ from 5 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago3 permissions- About 9.6× fewer users than Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Tab Switcher
A Chrome extension that allows users to switch between their most recently used tabs.
193 users5.0★ from 1 rating1 permissions- About 5.2× fewer users than Tabatha
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Tab Switcher
Switch tabs like Cmd+Tab with visual previews and MRU order. Also adds a keyboard shortcut to copy the current URL.
102 usersNot rated yetUpdated 9 months ago5 permissions- About 9.8× fewer users than Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Simple Tab Switcher
A Chrome tab switcher which enables a shortcut to switch the current tab to latest one.
335 users4.6★ from 8 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago2 permissions- About 3.0× fewer users than Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 7)
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Tab Manager Plus for Chrome
Quickly find open tabs, see all windows in one view, find duplicates and limit tabs per window. The best Tab Manager for Chrome.
≈200K users4.5★ from 1.1K ratingsUpdated 4 weeks ago6 permissions- About 200× more users than Tabatha
- Asks for fewer permissions (6 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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Auto Tab Switcher
Automatically switches to the next tab every few seconds
≈30K users3.3★ from 32 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago4 permissions- About 30× more users than Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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Popup Tab Switcher
Makes switching between tabs more convenient.
≈10K users4.4★ from 138 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years6 permissions- About 10× more users than Tabatha
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (6 vs 7)
- Listed under Accessibility
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isTabs - Visual Tab Manager & Tab Search
istabs: visual tabs and search with tab previews, sidebar management, workspace groups and tab history.
357 users5.0★ from 40 ratingsUpdated 5 days ago8 permissions- About 2.8× fewer users than Tabatha
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 7)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
Tabatha alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Tabatha?
By users, the most popular alternative is Tab Manager Plus for Chrome with ≈200K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is TabGlance - Visual Tab Switcher | Alt-Tab Thumbnail Previews.
Which Tabatha alternative has the best rating?
Tab Manager Plus for Chrome has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.5 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings.
Is there a Tabatha alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Tab Switcher asks for 1 permissions, against 7 for Tabatha.
How many alternatives to Tabatha are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Tabatha on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.