Session Buddy Alternative with Spaces

Session Buddy saves sessions. Leap keeps places.

Session Buddy is great at saving a session and bringing it back. Leap is a Chrome sidebar where saved tabs live in spaces and folders next to the page — one click reopens a tab in place. Free.

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Leap sidebar in Chrome with spaces, pinned sites and saved tabs
Leap, running in Chrome.

A session you restore, or places you work in

Session Buddy

Save a session, restore it later

Session Buddy saves your open tabs with one click and restores them later — to their original windows, into one window or into the current one, with window positions and pinned tabs.

Saved links are organized into collections by topic or project; collections can be pinned, color-coded and checked for duplicates.

Leap

Keep each context as a place

Work, study, a side project — each is a space in the Chrome sidebar, all in the same window. Switch in one click from the bar at the bottom.

Saved tabs and nested folders stay in the sidebar after you close the tabs, next to the page you are on. One click reopens a tab in place — no session to restore, no separate page to go back to.

Saved tabs and folders in a Leap space, next to the open tabs

What Session Buddy does well — honestly

If you want your whole browser back after a crash, or a history of past sessions, stay with Session Buddy — Leap keeps only the tabs you chose to save, and has no search.

Search everything

One search covers open tabs, collections and tab history, with filters by item type and an advanced query syntax.

Crash recovery and history

Session Buddy recovers open tabs after a crash or an unexpected shutdown, and its tab history shows windows and tabs as they were at an earlier moment.

Export formats

Collections export as a plain list of URLs, title/URL pairs, indented groups, JSON or CSV.

Leap vs Session Buddy

FeatureLeapSession Buddy
Where saved tabs liveA sidebar next to the pageSaved sessions you restore
FoldersNested, 3 levelsCollections
Sync between devicesAlways onLocal only — no sync yet
Search✗Open tabs, collections and history
Restore after a crash✗Crash recovery and tab history
Export to files✗URLs, JSON, CSV and more
No sign-up to start✓✓

Sources, checked October 2026: sessionbuddy.com · sessionbuddy.com/formats · sessionbuddy.com/privacy-policy. Notice an error? Email us.

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Leap at a glance

What Leap does and doesn't do, in plain words.

What it is
A Chrome extension that adds a vertical sidebar (Chrome’s side panel) with spaces, saved tabs, folders and pinned sites. Not a separate browser.
Spaces
Each space is its own set of saved tabs, folders and pinned sites in the sidebar; all spaces share one Chrome window, and Chrome's own tab strip still lists every open tab. Switch spaces in one click from the bar at the bottom of the sidebar. Unlimited spaces.
Saved tabs that stay
Save a tab into a space or folder, close it in Chrome, and it stays in the sidebar — one click reopens it.
Nested folders
Folders inside folders, up to three levels deep.
Pinned sites
Pin the sites you open every day to the dock. A click focuses the tab you already have instead of opening a duplicate; if a site shows an unread count in its tab title, the count appears on the icon.
Open tabs
Your open tabs are listed below your saved ones, and the section can be collapsed.
Make it yours
Name, emoji, color and background for every space. Dark and light themes.
Saving
Right-click any page → “Save to Leap”. Two shortcuts: Alt+S opens or closes the sidebar, Alt+Shift+S saves the current tab.
Sync and sign-in
No sign-up to start. Spaces, saved tabs, folders, pins and settings sync to Leap’s server whether you sign in or not. Sign in with email in any supported browser, or with Google in Chrome, to get the same spaces on another computer.
Browsers
Chrome and other Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave and Vivaldi. Google sign-in works only in Chrome; elsewhere sign in with email. No Firefox or Safari.
Price
Free. Every feature, for everyone — no trial, no credit card.
Privacy
Only tabs you explicitly save are synced; your browsing history is not. Leap does not sell your data. Deleting your account removes sign-in immediately and synced data within 30 days.

What Leap can't do

Hide Chrome’s tab bar
Chrome doesn’t let extensions hide its horizontal tab bar. Leap lives next to it, in the side panel.
Separate logins per space
Spaces share one window and one set of cookies. Separate logins need separate Chrome profiles.
Import from Session Buddy or Chrome bookmarks
Not directly — Leap imports from Arc, OneTab, Toby and Workona.
Tab search or a command palette
Neither. Leap has two shortcuts: Alt+S and Alt+Shift+S.
Automatic grouping
None — you decide what goes where.

Frequently asked questions

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