Starling

Press Organize and your tabs sort themselves into named groups. Everything runs on your own Mac.

2026 / Coded prototype · Swift and WebKit / Watch the demo →
Try it: press Organize. Shift-click it, or press Say how, to sort your own way. The groups come from the real app; page previews are illustrations.
Starling with 16 open tabs in one unsorted list The same tabs sorted into named groups: Lisbon travel, Photography, Sourdough baking, Typography and Interaction design The Organize button turned into a text box with the words by site typed in

Working prototype, running on 16 real tabs. Click a step.

Why it matters

Every browser lets tabs pile up. None of them puts them away for you.

After a day of research there are forty tabs open, and finding one means reading tiny titles one by one. Sorting them by hand takes longer than the research did, so nobody does it.

It’s for people who think in the browser: designers collecting references, developers reading documentation, anyone planning a trip.

The idea

Sort by meaning, name in words. A small model reads each page and places it by what it is about, so similar pages land together. A second small model then gives each group a short name.

Open tabs MiniLM-L6 finds what belongs together Qwen3 1.7B names each group Typography Sourdough Lisbon trip

Letting one big language model do all of it was slower and no better: on a test of 43 tabs it took 18.6 seconds, against 2.5 for this split. Each model does the part it is good at, so Organize is fast enough to press without thinking. Nothing you have open leaves your Mac.

Where else it works

Anything that piles up and never gets sorted: downloads, screenshots, saved links.

What’s next

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