Status: Opening soon
You kept your tabs open so you didn't forget.Now you can close them.
Tabu remembers them for you. It sorts every tab by topic, keeps it synced across your Apple devices, and it's available the moment you need it.
The Problem
Nobody taught you how to hold a hundred tabs in your head.
You were never taught to manage this much at once. So you built a system that half works: keep the tab open so you don't lose the thread.
Every open tab is one more voice on a crowded stage. Past a point they all talk at once, and you can't focus on any of them.
It never fully goes away. Background tabs become background worry, and it compounds every day you don't close them.
What Tabu isn't
It's not a bookmark manager, a read-it-later app, or one more thing to maintain. It doesn't lose your tabs. It isn't free with ads.
Those are where tabs go to die. You save a thousand things, it gets too big to manage, and what you're left with is a giant to-do list that was never really a to-do list. Tabu has nothing to maintain. No folders, no tags, no upkeep. It sorts itself, and it never loses what you save. Also, you pay once. We're not interested in selling your data.
Save it
One click, from any browser, on any device. A tab, a link, a PDF, an image. Drag it in or use the share button. Tabu has it.
Close it
Close the tab. Close the browser. Walk away. Nothing is lost.
Find it
Search by what it was, not where you left it. Tabu already sorted it by topic.
The
TABU
Manifesto
Your data stays on your machine
The AI that sorts your tabs runs on your device. Nothing leaves it. Your browser history is your biography. We index, you own.
We keep a copy outside iCloud
Your tabs sync through your own iCloud, and a separate copy stays on your Mac. A bad sync can never erase you.
Export everything, any time
One click, in a format you can open without us. If you want to leave, we're not holding anything hostage.
No streaks, no badges, no notifications
We measure success by how quickly you close your browser, not by how long you stay. We will never beg for your attention.
Ask your tabs
Point your AI at everything you saved.
Tabu runs a local MCP server on your Mac. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any tool that speaks the Model Context Protocol and ask questions across everything you have saved. Find the article you half remember. Pull every link on one topic. Your library never leaves your device.
The server runs on your Mac. Your AI reads your tabs without sending them to anyone.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol.
Search by what something was about, not where you left it. Your AI does the digging.
Who built it
Built by people who needed it.
Shawn has spent 18 years helping people clean up their digital life. Tom has built software since 2010, at Amazon and Facebook, where his work focused on privacy and security. We both have ADHD. We both have a hard time managing tabs. We tried every productivity app, abandoned every one, and went back to what was easy. So we built the thing we needed. A place to save the tab, close the tab, and trust it is there when you want it.
Technical
Specifications
Waitlist
Be the first to know when Tabu opens up.
Drop your email. We will send one note when it is ready. That is it. No newsletter, no drip campaign.
We use your email for one launch announcement and nothing else. How we handle your data.
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Junk and duplicates go to a bin you empty yourself. We throw nothing away.
The AI runs on your Mac. Your files stay on your machine. Always.
One email when it is ready. Nothing else.