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Chauffeur

Save your whole working setup — open files, editor tabs, browser tabs, PDF pages and projects — as a named context and restore it with one click. Runs fully locally: no account, no cloud, no telemetry.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
Plugins/Integrations on Windows
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Tab Manager

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Chauffeur information

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription + free version with limited functionality.

  • Alternatives

    9 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Greek
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What is Chauffeur?

Chauffeur saves what you were actually working on and brings it back later.

Not just which applications were open, and not just where the windows sat — Chauffeur captures the documents inside them: the files open in Word and Excel, the tabs and projects in your IDE, the folders in your file manager, the page you had reached in a PDF, and the tabs in your browser. That whole set becomes a named context you can save, leave, and restore with one click.

Because a context is named, you can keep several and switch between them. Close down "Q3 audit", restore "client onboarding", and every application comes back holding the right documents — instead of hunting through recent-files lists in eight programs.

Everything stays on your machine. There is no account, no cloud sync and no telemetry. Contexts are stored in local files you can inspect. The only network calls the product makes are licence activation and an optional update check, and neither ever transmits your context.

Integrations (what Chauffeur can capture and restore):

Windows

  • Browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox (open tabs)
  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel (open documents)
  • IDEs and editors: Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Notepad++
  • PDF: SumatraPDF and Adobe Acrobat Pro — restored to the page you were on
  • Notes: Obsidian, OneNote
  • Also: LibreOffice, File Explorer, window layout across multiple monitors

macOS

  • Word, Excel, Preview (PDF page), Finder, Xcode, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs

Linux

  • Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, LibreOffice, GNOME Papers (PDF)

Free version: every integration, one saved context, unlimited restores — permanently free, no card. Pro (EUR 5.99/month or EUR 49/year, up to 3 devices): unlimited named contexts, automatic background capture, rolling snapshots, and context import/export.

Interface languages: English, German, Greek.

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