Raft

What Raft is

Raft is a Chrome extension that suspends inactive tabs to free memory and saves browsing sessions for later restoration. It uses Chrome’s native tab discarding and protects pinned tabs, audio-playing tabs, and whitelisted sites. Saved sessions retain windows, tabs, and tab groups, including group names, colors, and collapsed state. Users can restore selected tabs or an entire session, and the extension can find and close duplicate tabs across windows while respecting protection rules. Raft can import sessions from OneTab, Session Buddy, Tab Session Manager, and Toby. Optional cloud sync stores sessions in Google Drive and encrypts them with a password known only to the user. The maker says data is encrypted on the device before it leaves the browser and that cloud sync uses AES-256-GCM. The maker also describes Raft as local by default, with no analytics, telemetry, or backend servers, and says its source code is publicly available under the MIT License. Raft is free, with every feature included and no paid tier. Cloud sync supports up to 10 devices.

Who it suits

Raft suits Chrome users who want to manage inactive tabs and save restorable sessions, including tab groups. It may also suit users who want optional Google Drive sync or to import sessions from supported extensions.

Limits

Raft has no paid tier or feature limits on its free plan. Optional cloud sync supports up to 10 devices.

Getting started

1. Visit https://raftapp.io/.
2. Add Raft as a Chrome extension.
3. Use the free plan; all features are included.
4. Save sessions across windows, tabs, and tab groups, then restore selected tabs or the full session.
5. Optionally enable cloud sync with Google Drive for up to 10 devices.

Verdict

Raft combines tab suspension with session saving, restoration, and optional Google Drive sync. It is free, while cloud sync is limited to 10 devices.