Tabulate - A tiny app lets you instantly search any open tab

Tabulate is a tiny macOS menu bar app built for one thing: finding your tabs fast. Press a shortcut to search across your open tabs and jump instantly. Works out of the box, with no configuration or extensions. It also shows your total tab count across Safari, Chrome, and other supported browsers, right in your menu bar. Private by design: everything is processed locally, kept in memory, and never tracked or stored.

I’m Ben, a product designer who enjoys building small tools and experiments.

Tabulate actually started as a bit of a joke. One day I realized I had an absurd number of browser tabs open and wondered if there was a simple way to keep track of it. I built a tiny menu bar app that just showed my total tab count across browsers.

But while using it, I realized the more interesting problem wasn’t just how many tabs I had open, it was finding the one I needed.

So Tabulate grew into a small utility that sits in your menu bar and lets you search across your open tabs and jump straight to the one you want. It still keeps track of your tab count and personal record, but the real magic is being able to find any tab instantly.

It’s intentionally very simple:

• search and jump to any open tab instantly

• shows your tab count in the menu bar

• works across Safari, Chrome, and a few other browsers

• tracks your personal record

• no analytics or tracking

Tabulate uses macOS automation to ask browsers for tab information locally. Everything is processed on your device and nothing is stored or transmitted anywhere.

I’m giving it away for free as a way to learn more about macOS app development and share something useful in the process. If you try it out, I’d love to hear what you think.

Tabulate - A tiny app lets you instantly search any open tab

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