Comparison

TabTidy vs Plain and Simple Tools

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TabTidy

This utility app uses on-device AI to automatically organize your browser tabs by topic and detect duplicates. You can also create custom tab groups and save/restore sessions, all while ensuring your browsing data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • AI topic organization
  • Automatic domain-based grouping
  • Manual tab groups
  • Duplicate tab detection
  • Save and restore sessions
  • Close tabs by group
Features
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Tired of losing context in a sea of browser tabs? TabTidy uses on-device AI to organize your tabs by topic, find duplicates, and let you build your own groups — without your URLs or titles ever leaving your device. [Features] - Automatic domain-based tab grouping - AI topic organization powered by Apple Intelligence (iOS 26+) - Manual Groups — bundle tabs into your own categories - Duplicate tab detection and one-tap cleanup - Save and restore tab sessions - Save pages from other browsers or any app through the share sheet - Close all tabs in a group at once - Edit AI-generated labels to your preference [Privacy] Tab organizing and AI run entirely on your device. AI uses Apple Intelligence's on-device models — your URLs, titles, and group names never leave your phone or Mac. No account required. To improve the app, TabTidy may send usage data that doesn't identify you, such as how often features are used — but only after it asks and you choose to send it. You can change this anytime in Settings. [Requirements] - Safari on iOS 26 or later - Apple Intelligence-capable device for AI features

About

Plain and Simple Tools

Features
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A shelf of small tools, each doing one thing, with nothing attached. This is the one app here that is not about a single thing: a container that gains tools over time. Every tool says what it does, what it will ask you for, and what — if anything — it sends off your phone, before you tap it. Pin the ones you use to the tab bar. A tool you have never opened is never even started, and never asks you for anything. Three ship today. CHARGE — IS THAT CHARGER ANY GOOD? Plug the phone in and leave it a few minutes. Charge times how fast the battery is actually filling and tells you roughly how many watts are arriving, and whether that counts as fast or slow. There is a Lock Screen tile for the last one you tested. It is honest about the figure, which is the part most apps are not. iOS does not tell an app how many watts a charger is delivering — there is no way to ask, and any app showing you an instant number is making it up. Timing the fill is the only method available, it takes a few minutes, and it gets within about a fifth. The app shows that it is still measuring rather than inventing something, and explains the method on the screen. NEGATIVES — FILM, TURNED BACK INTO PHOTOGRAPHS Point the camera at a negative on a lightbox — or let a second phone be the lightbox — or pick one you have already photographed. Colour film, black and white, and slides. A single frame or a whole strip. The conversion happens on your phone, and the result saves straight into your own photo library. STEPS TO HA — YOUR STEP COUNT, ON YOUR OWN DASHBOARD If you run Home Assistant at home, this sends today's step count to it, so you can put it on a dashboard or use it in an automation. It reads your step count from Apple Health, read-only, and never writes anything back. It sends that number to the address you typed in, and nowhere else. There is no account and no server here. Nothing goes to Plain and Simple. Your Home Assistant address and webhook ID are kept in this phone's Keychain, marked device-only, so they are not in iCloud and do not travel to a new phone. If you do not run Home Assistant, this tool has nothing for you — and it stays switched off and silent. PERMISSIONS BELONG TO THE TOOLS, NOT TO THE APP The shell — the shelf, the tab bar, Settings — asks for nothing at all. Health is only requested once you open Steps to HA and choose to connect it. The camera is only ever on while Negatives is the screen you are looking at, or while you are scanning a pairing code, and it explains itself before iPhone asks. Saving a photograph uses the add-only permission, which lets the app put pictures into your library and never lets it see one that is already there. That is the least it could ask for; the cost is that it cannot file its results into an album, and that was accepted rather than asking for more. Tests read the app's own source and fail the build if permission code appears outside a tool, if the app declares a permission that no tool asked for, or if any tool other than Steps to HA gains the ability to reach the network. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO • No adverts, no purchases, no subscription • No account, no analytics, no tracking • One tool sends one number, to one address you chose. Nothing else in the app can reach the network at all, and a test fails the build if that changes • Nothing downloaded after you install it If none of the three is a job you have, this one has nothing for you yet. The shelf is honest about being short.

Screenshots

TabTidy4 screens
Plain and Simple Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TabTidy at every 2 days against Plain and Simple Tools's weekly. Plain and Simple Tools's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TabTidy ships an update every 2 days, Plain and Simple Tools weekly. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
TabTidy versus Plain and Simple Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabTidyPlain and Simple Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFumiya TanakaPlain and Simple Solutions LLC

In-app purchases

None

TabTidy

No in-app purchases

None

Plain and Simple Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TabTidy free?
TabTidy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plain and Simple Tools free?
Plain and Simple Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TabTidy or Plain and Simple Tools have ads?
Neither TabTidy nor Plain and Simple Tools shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TabTidy or Plain and Simple Tools?
TabTidy ships an update every 2 days, and Plain and Simple Tools weekly. Most recently, TabTidy was updated on October 20, 2026 and Plain and Simple Tools on October 20, 2026.

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