AUTOMATIC TAB CLEANUP FOR CHROME

Too many tabs?
Let the old ones close themselves.

GoToTab watches for tabs you've stopped using and quietly closes them on a schedule you set. Pinned and audio tabs are untouched; everything else is saved to a searchable archive. Automatic tab cleanup that never loses your work.

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HOW TAB CLEANUP WORKS

Set a thresholdPro

Automatically close inactive tabs after an hour, a day, a week: you choose

Decide how long a tab can sit untouched before cleanup. GoToTab checks quietly in the background and closes anything past your threshold, so a runaway window slims down on its own.

  1. 1Open Settings and turn on Tab Cleanup (Pro)
  2. 2Set an inactivity threshold: 1 hour, 1 day, a week, whatever fits
  3. 3GoToTab checks in the background and closes tabs idle past it
  4. 4Your window stays lean automatically, no manual closing
Set an inactivity threshold
Settings · Tab cleanup

Auto-close inactive tabs

Closed tabs are archived, never lost

Close tabs idle for

1 hour1 day1 week
Watching in the background · 3 tabs past 1 day will be archived
Protect what mattersPro

Pinned tabs, tabs playing audio, and your whitelist are never touched

Cleanup only ever closes tabs you've genuinely stopped using. Pin the ones you always want open, keep music and calls safe automatically, and whitelist domains you never want touched.

  1. 1Pinned tabs are protected automatically
  2. 2Tabs playing audio (music, calls, video) are skipped
  3. 3Add domains to a whitelist to keep them off-limits
  4. 4Everything else past your threshold becomes eligible
Protected tabs stay put
Close tabs idle for2 hours
Project board📌 pinned
Spotify · Focus mix🔊 kept
Old news articleidle 3 days
Archive0Restore anytime
Nothing is ever lostPro

Closed tabs drop into a searchable archive you can reopen anytime

Auto-close doesn't mean gone. Every tab GoToTab cleans up lands in an archive you can search and reopen in a click, and because it's tied to your account, it's there on all your devices.

  1. 1Every auto-closed tab is saved to your archive
  2. 2Search the archive by title or URL
  3. 3Reopen any tab in one click
  4. 4The archive syncs across your devices
Search the archive
Archive128 tabs cleaned up
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Design system · Figma

figma.com · archived 2 days ago

Reopen

Design spec · Notion

notion.so · archived last week

Old news article

news.site · archived 3 weeks ago

PRICING

Free to use. $4 to unlock everything.

No trials, no tiers to decode. Start free forever, upgrade for sync and history when you’re ready.

Free

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Everything you need to stop losing tabs.

Add to Chrome
  • Instant tab search & switching
  • Tab groups: create, color, collapse
  • Slash commands: /group /sweep /dedupe /mute
  • Up to 2 collections
  • Light & dark themes
  • Keyboard-first everything

Pro

$4/ month

Sync, unlimited collections, full history.

Go Pro for $4/mo
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited collections + full history search
  • Automatic tab cleanup + archive
  • Save whole sessions in one click
  • Synced to your account, on every device
  • Cancel anytime

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Questions about tab cleanup

Turn on Tab Cleanup in GoToTab's settings and pick an inactivity threshold, say one day. GoToTab checks in the background and automatically closes tabs you haven't touched since then, dropping each one into a searchable archive so nothing is lost.

No. Every auto-closed tab is saved to an archive you can search and reopen in one click. And cleanup never touches pinned tabs, tabs playing audio, or any domain you've whitelisted.

It closes them and archives them, rather than suspending them in place. Suspending frees memory but leaves the clutter; closing-with-archive actually declutters your window while keeping every page one click away to reopen.

Yes. Pin a tab to keep it open, and it's protected automatically. Tabs playing audio are skipped, and you can whitelist specific sites so they're never cleaned up.

Automatic tab cleanup and the archive are part of Pro ($4/month). The free tab manager still lets you close tabs on demand with slash commands like /sweep and /close.

Yes. With Pro, your archive of closed tabs is tied to your account, so you can search and reopen cleaned-up tabs from any device you're signed in on.

Stop hunting for that one tab.

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