No account, no sign-up
Install it and it works. There is no login, no email address and no profile of yours anywhere outside your browser - so there is nothing to leak, sell or lose when a company changes its mind.
Your tabs stay on your computer.
No account to make, no server holding your saved tabs, and not one network request from a free install. Latr is a tab manager, session manager and bookmark manager that stores everything locally, in your browser's own extension storage.
- No account, ever
- Free, and not a trial
- Nothing leaves your browser
The problem
Why does a tab manager need an account?
Your saved tabs are a fairly complete picture of you: what you are researching, what you are about to buy, the flat you are looking at, the symptom you searched at 2am. Most tools that organise them want you to sign up, because the list lives on their server - which means it is readable by somebody who is not you, and it lasts exactly as long as they keep running. Latr is built the other way round: there is no server for your data to live on.
How it works
A browser extension that stores tabs locally
Every one of these is a fact about how the extension is built, not a setting you have to find.
Stored in your browser
Saved windows, reminders, kept pages, folders and tags live in the browser's own extension storage, inside your profile on your disk - the same place your bookmarks and history already live.
No network requests
A free install makes none: no analytics, no telemetry, no update ping of ours, no font from a CDN. Site icons come from the browser's own local cache rather than the web (Firefox shows a letter instead), and page pictures are taken on your computer.
Sync only if you ask
Off by default. Switched on, your reminders travel through your browser's own profile sync, the mechanism that already carries your bookmarks - still no server of ours. Its quota is small (about 100KB), so pictures and saved windows stay on the machine.
Share without uploading
A share link carries the pages inside the address, after the #, which browsers never send to a server. A whole session can travel in one message without being stored anywhere.
One server, for Pro keys only
The only server Latr has answers one question: is this licence key real. A free install never calls it, and no reminder or tab is ever attached to the check.
It is the whole product, not a cut-down private edition: the tab manager, saved windows and the bookmark manager all work this way. The site's own privacy policy is at latr.page/privacy.
Permissions
No warnings at install, and each permission asked at first use
Installing Latr shows no permission warning at all. Anything that would carry one is optional: your browser asks the first time you use the feature that needs it, and if you say no, everything else keeps working.
- Your tabs The open-tab list across every window, saving and restoring windows, putting tabs to sleep, closing duplicates, blocking sites during focus, autosave and the tab limit.
- Tab groups Grouping, collapsing and moving groups, grouping rules, and restoring a saved window with its groups.
- Recently closed Showing the browser's own list of closed tabs and windows, and saving a window as it closes.
- Bookmarks Your browser's bookmarks as a section of the library: import, export, and editing them in place.
- History Only when you ask quick switch to search your browsing history too, on this computer.
- Clipboard Only when you choose to save the link you copied, and read only at that moment.
- All sites Only for pictures: of tabs you save several at a time, and of bookmarked pages as you visit them. It reads no page content.
- latr.page Only when you activate a Pro licence, to check the key - and for nothing else.
Each one, with the exact wording your browser uses and how to revoke it, is in Browser permissions explained.
The honest part
What keeping everything local costs you
No server for your data means no server to rescue it either. These are the trade-offs, stated plainly, so none of them is a surprise later.
What you take on
- No automatic cloud backup. If the computer dies, a backup you exported is the copy.
- Uninstalling the extension deletes what it stored. Export first.
- A new computer starts empty until you import a backup or switch on sync.
- No web app and no phone app. Your tabs are reachable from the browser they are in.
- A reminder needs the browser running to fire. Sending one to your calendar is how it reaches your phone.
How to cover it
- Settings has a one-press JSON backup of your reminders and library, schedules included.
- Seal the backup with a passphrase and it can sit in a cloud folder; it is encrypted on your computer.
- CSV, Markdown and bookmarks HTML exports open anywhere - moving tabs covers each one.
- The requests Latr can cause are few and yours: activating Pro checks your key, uninstalling opens a goodbye page with nothing in its address, and opening a saved page loads that site.
Check it yourself
A privacy-friendly extension you can verify
A promise is only worth what you can check. Three ways, none of which needs you to trust this page.
- 1 Read the install dialog.
Add Latr and look at what your browser says it can do. There are no warnings to read, because nothing that carries one is required.
- 2 Open the privacy panel.
Settings → About Latr has a privacy panel: data sent and servers contacted (none, for a free install), and a live count of the bytes stored on this device. Step 3 is how you check the first two for yourself.
- 3 Watch the network.
Open your browser's developer tools on the Network tab and use Latr as you normally would - save tabs, restore a window, search the library. Nothing of ours appears.
What is stored, and exactly where, is set out in Your data.
Questions
A private tab manager, asked directly
Is there a tab manager that works without an account?
Latr is one. There is no sign-up screen, no login and no email address anywhere in it - you install it and it works. Your open-tab list, saved windows, reminders and library are kept in your browser’s own extension storage on your computer, so there is nothing for an account to unlock.
Does Latr track what I browse?
No. The extension carries no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporter, and a free install makes no network requests at all. When you save a tab it reads that tab’s title and address at that moment. If you grant tab access for the open-tab tools, it reads your open tabs to show and organise them, on your computer, and sends them nowhere.
Can I use it offline?
Yes. Everything Latr stores and every decision it makes happens on your computer, so saving, organising, searching your library and restoring a window all work with no connection. The pages themselves still need the internet to load, of course - Latr keeps the address, not a copy of the site.
Can I share tabs without uploading them to a server?
Yes. A share link carries the pages inside the link itself, after the # in the address, and that part of an address is never sent to any server - including ours. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored anywhere but the message you paste the link into. It holds up to 50 pages with their titles and addresses, but not your notes, tags or pictures.
How do I move my tabs to a new computer without an account?
Export a backup from Settings and import it on the other machine: it is a plain JSON file holding your reminders and kept pages, schedules included. If you want the file to live in a cloud folder, seal it with a passphrase first - it is encrypted on your computer, and a forgotten passphrase cannot be recovered. Or switch on sync, which carries your reminders through your browser’s own profile sync.
What happens to my saved tabs if I uninstall?
They are deleted with the extension. There is no copy on a server to fall back on, which is the other side of there being no server. Export a backup first - JSON to restore your reminders and library, CSV for a spreadsheet, or Markdown and bookmarks HTML to read or import elsewhere.
Is the bookmark manager private as well?
Yes, and it is a bookmark manager without an account in the same way. Access to your browser’s bookmarks is optional and asked for only when you open that part of the library. Latr never fetches your bookmarks to check whether they still work, because that would be a request per bookmark - and a picture of a bookmarked page is taken only when you visit it yourself.
Close the tab.
It will come back.
Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device. About ten seconds to install, and one keystroke to use.
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