Typio Chrome Form Recovery NG

About

Lost a long comment to a page reload? Tab crash ate your form? Typio Chrome Form Recovery NG has your back.

  Typio NG silently auto-saves text you type into web forms and lets you recover it after a reload, crash, or accidental navigation. It is a privacy-first, modern Manifest V3 successor to the
  original Typio Form Recovery extension which was removed from the Chrome Web Store in 2025 when Manifest V2 was deprecated.

  WHAT IS SAVED
  • Plain input fields (text, email, url, search, tel, number)
  • Textarea fields
  • Saved drafts are scoped to the hostname and the field you typed in
  • A few seconds of typing inactivity triggers a save — you don't have to think about it

  WHAT IS NEVER SAVED
  • Password fields, credit card fields, OTP / 2FA codes — refused at the input level
  • Hidden / submit / checkbox / file inputs
  • Anything you type on /login, /checkout, /payment, /billing, /auth, /2fa pages
  • Pages on hosts you have added to the blocklist in Options
  • Incognito / private browsing — extension is disabled there by default
  • Browser-internal pages (chrome://, the Web Store itself, the PDF viewer)

  HOW TO RECOVER
  • Click the toolbar icon to see drafts for the current page
  • Press Alt+Shift+Z for the in-page recovery dialog with search
  • Right-click any text field, "Recover text in this field"

  PRIVACY PROMISE (NO ASTERISKS)
  • All data lives in your browser IndexedDB
  • No telemetry. No analytics. No servers. No accounts.
  • Source code is MIT-licensed on GitHub: https://github.com/stufently/typio-chrome-form-recovery-ng

  SETTINGS
  • Adjust retention from 1 to 365 days
  • Maintain a hostname blocklist (with .subdomain.com wildcards)
  • Export your data as JSON; import it with a dry-run preview before applying

  PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED (full rationale in the repository)
  • storage — small extension settings (drafts live in IndexedDB)
  • alarms — daily cleanup of expired drafts
  • contextMenus — the "Recover text in this field" right-click entry
  • activeTab — opens the recovery dialog on the page you have open
  • Content script on all sites — autosave runs on the sites you visit