Close the tabs you're afraid you'll never find again.
Your browser remembers pages. BestHistory helps you remember websites. It turns Chrome history into a website-first memory tool, so you can rediscover something even when you no longer remember its name.
Local-first · 18 interface languages · Private Mode encrypted on your device · 30-day Pro Trial · Chrome Web Store publication in progress
You remember what the website did. You just don't remember what it was called.
Most history tools assume you know the date, the page title, or the exact keyword. Real memory is messier.
You used it two months ago. The tab is gone. The name is gone. You only remember what you used it for.
You tried several similar tools. One was actually useful, but now they all blur together.
You keep dozens of tabs open because closing them feels like losing them forever.
History organized around how people remember.
Website-first history
Instead of opening a wall of thousands of page visits, start with the websites you actually used. Then drill down into pages only when you need them.
AI Recall for fuzzy memory
Describe what you vaguely remember. AI Recall helps turn that memory into better search clues, then verifies them against your local history.
Private when it should be private
Private Mode keeps selected history encrypted locally and can optionally remember incognito-window visits without mixing them into normal history.
Tag it. Describe it. Find it the way you remember it.
A website's official title is often not the thing you remember. BestHistory lets you add your own tags and notes — like “the site I used to turn PDFs into images” — and search those later.
You can also sort by recent use, frequent use, name, pinned sites, unorganized sites, trash, and private sites.
See the browsing journey, not a wall of repeated page titles.
BestHistory groups consecutive visits from the same website together. Expand them when you need detail; keep them folded when you just want to remember the flow.
Your full browsing history should not need to become someone else's database.
Your complete browsing-history database, Private Mode database, and .bhbackup files stay on your device by default. AI features only send the limited information needed for the request when you deliberately use them.
BestHistory started as a personal tool for a very ordinary problem: too many open tabs, too many bookmarks, too much browser history — and still no reliable way to recover the one forgotten website that mattered.
Simple pricing, with a 30-day Pro Trial for new accounts.
Payments are processed by Paddle, the Merchant of Record. Chrome Web Store publication is in progress; BestHistory v1.0.0 can be installed manually from GitHub now.
Help shape BestHistory — and what Zhiban builds next.
Zhiban Community is the shared community for BestHistory and future Best Series products. Join product discussions, report bugs, suggest features, and take part in beta testing and early access.
BestHistory already supports 18 interface languages.
The product supports 18 interface languages. While BestHistory, checkout, and the website are still changing frequently, the complete marketing website is currently maintained in English and Simplified Chinese. Other full website languages can follow once the product is more stable.
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Stop keeping tabs open just because you're afraid of losing them.
BestHistory v1.0.0 is available now on GitHub Releases while Chrome Web Store publication is in progress.