SessionRestore (history)

Safari session manager

for macOS 14+

SessionRestore Highlights

Advanced Safari session management.

Super Useful

Autosave browsing sessions for peace of mind. Deep Integration right into Safari as a native Safari Extension. Highly intuitive, and easy to use.

Advanced Editing

Name your sessions, add tags and provide custom notes which are all instantly searchable. Drag and drop sessions/windows/tabs to merge or to create new sessions.

Lightweight and Quick

SessionRestore has a minimalist interface, and is built using the latest macOS technologies and is designed to be fast and lightweight.

SessionRestore Screenshots

No distractions - always handy.

Carefree Browsing

Autosave and iCloud support

Powerful Search

Search everything!

Deeply Integrated

Available directly in Safari.

SessionRestore Questions

A quick introduction to session management.

What's a browser session?

A browser session consist's of all your browser windows and tabs. Depending on how fanatical you are, you could literally have hundreds! of open tabs.

Why do I need to save them?

This thankfully doesn't happen often, but all applications can, and do crash... Safari is no exception. Imagine losing all those tabs you have open for research. Not to mention all the resources consumed with multiple tabs open. You backup your computer often, (well.. you should be) and now you can easily do the same with your browser tabs using SessionRestore. Who needs clumsy bookmarks - Go one step further, and save groups of tabs for instant retrieval anytime.

Why use SessionRestore?

SessionRestore gives you peace of mind that that your precious browser tabs will not be accidentally lost. It also gives you an alternative way to keep ideas separate but close at hand, by allowing you to save and edit sessions. Sessions can be edited renamed, and given meaningful screenshots to help you recall groups of browser windows/tabs at any time.

SessionRestore Features

Safari browsing session save and restore
iCloud support for preferences and Saved Sessions
Fully configurable Autosave
Full session editing
Add custom tags for grouping common sessions
Metadata search (name/urls/tags/notes)
Screenshots for easy identification
Export/Import for archiving
Import from deprecated javascript extensions SessionRestore and Sessions
Notifications
Customisable user interface
Global hotkey configuration
Handy Safari contextual menu options

What does SessionRestore support?

macOS 14 or better (Tahoe recommended)
Apple Silicon, Intel
Safari, Safari Technology Preview
Localized for English, German, Dutch and French

SessionRestore Reviews

Don't take our word for it, see what others are saying about SessionRestore.

App Store

3.9

out of 5

54 Ratings

Please add more options!

★★★★★

by AverageCommentWriter - Jun 2026 - France

I need SessionRestore to save every 60 seconds, and it allows me to save at max the latest 50 sessions. This means that it will only retain the latest 50 minutes! Please allow users to save higher amounts of sessions! A custom amount of sessions option would be appreciated.

This saved my browser life many times!

★★★★★

by Fafa22 - Feb 2023 - France

Safari sometimes forgets its browser tabs. Fortunately I save them with SessionRestore every day. I have been using it for years and it does the job.

Perfect

★★★★★

by MrCarambar - May 2021 - France

Thanks for the many improvements! I was missing the ability to update a session but with your below answer, I now have it. Thanks!

Gamechanger

★★★★★

by Angelluc07 - Sep 2020 - Netherlands

Absolute gamechanger, this app is so helpfull to just sort tabs to one theme, close them when you don't use them and reopen with one click when needed. I used to have so many tabs open, up to more than 300 and now its much less clogged up because I save them and close when not needed. I know they are not lost. With the last update it is even more easy to add tabs to an existing session, to sort session alphabetically, use a minimal view without the images which gives it for me a clearer…

Amazing! finally a session saver!

★★★★★

by Shidevil - Oct 2019 - United States

Works awesome on Catalina!