tabOS is a Chrome extension that reframes your browser's new tab as a small operating system for your work. Rather than being a one-trick tab manager, it bundles tab and group management with documents, notes, feeds and AI into a single surface. You install it from the Chrome Web Store, and from then on every new tab is a dashboard where you lay your open work out in the open instead of hunting through a strip of tabs.
The tab management layer is thorough: drag and drop to save or close tabs and groups, create and rearrange groups, layer groups into folders, discard tabs to free memory, pin and move tabs, and view everything in grid, column, list or tree layouts. Alongside it sits a real productivity stack — create documents with Markdown and syntax highlighting, take quick notes, run to-do lists and store code snippets and images, all without leaving the browser. There is also a feeds section for RSS, YouTube and Reddit.
The AI side is where tabOS leans into the ChatGPT branding. You can assemble custom-prompted AI helpers, chat with AI, use Vision AI for image recognition, and select among ChatGPT 3.5, 4.0 and Turbo. A sharing and collaboration layer supports shared folders, shared documents and live sessions, with global, open-tab and fuzzy search to find anything across tabs, bookmarks and cloud files. Pricing is freemium: a Free Plan covers the core, while Pro and AI Plus plans add extra cloud storage, AI sorting and automatic daily backups. It is developed by Aconiti interfaces AB, the same independent studio behind tabExtend, and is not an official Google product.
