TabsPack
It is free. There is no catch, and this page explains the absence of one.
One version, every feature, no account, no trial, no card. If you were scrolling for the tier where the useful things live, there isn't one.
What you get
- Unlimited exports and restores. No tab count, no file size, no daily limit.
- Unlimited named snapshots inside the browser.
- Every import format, every export format.
- All three browsers, as many machines as you like.
- The full source, under the MIT licence, to read, fork or keep.
- A support form that reaches a person.
Why it is free
The honest answer is that there is nothing here worth charging for that would survive being charged for.
TabsPack does one job and then gets out of the way. It has no server to pay for, because your tabs never leave your machine. It has no account system to run, because there is nothing to sign in to. The cost of one more person using it is nothing, so there is no number to divide.
The usual way a free extension makes money is the one thing this product exists to avoid. An extension that can read every tab you have open is worth a great deal to an advertising business, and a great many of them have quietly become one after the install base was big enough. If TabsPack ever needs money, it will ask for money.
What it will never do
| The usual free model | TabsPack |
|---|---|
| Sell or share your browsing data | Never. There is no mechanism: no host permission, no analytics, no server that receives your tabs |
| Advertising, sponsored results, affiliate rewrites | Never. TabsPack does not modify a page and cannot |
| A free tier crippled into an upsell | There is one version and it is complete |
| An account to unlock what you already installed | There is no account |
| Quietly becoming a data business after the install base grows | The privacy claim is enforced by the build, the source is public, and every change to it is a public commit |
If TabsPack ever costs money
It might, one day, if something expensive becomes worth building. If that happens, three things hold:
- Everything that is free today stays free. A feature you already have is not taken away to sell back to you.
- Anything paid would be a new thing that costs real money to run, and it would be described plainly.
- It would never be funded by your data. That is not a pricing decision, it is the point of the product.
For teams and organisations
Deploy it as widely as you like. The MIT licence permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, and there is nothing to count or report. If you need the extension packaged for managed deployment, or a review of what it does before your security team will approve it, the answers are in the privacy policy and the source, and you can ask us directly.
Want to support it anyway? Rate it on your browser's store once it is published, tell someone who has ninety tabs open, or open a good bug report. All three are worth more than money to a product at this stage.