CraftlyKit — TabVault saves your tabs and your place in them, and OdDraw is a browser game hub in development
CraftlyKitCraftlyKit is a one-person studio in Faisalabad making two things. TabVault is a free Chrome extension that saves your tabs along with the exact scroll position you were at and the exact minute you reached in a video. OdDraw is a browser game hub, still in development.
Free. No account. Everything stays on your own device.
The studio
A workshop, not a platform
CraftlyKit is one person, a text editor, and a running list of things that are mildly annoying to do in a browser. What comes out of that is either a tool or a game, and both are held to the same three rules.
01
Small on purpose
Every project does one job. TabVault saves tabs and your place in them — it is not also a bookmark manager, a reading list, and a note app. A tool that does six things adequately is worse than one that does a single thing so well you stop thinking about it.
02
Nothing between you and the thing
No account before a tool will work, and no signup wall before a game starts. TabVault keeps everything in your own browser, which means there is nothing to log into and nothing to leak.
03
Built for the device you actually have
The test machine is a mid-range phone on a slow connection, not a developer's laptop on fibre. If something only feels good on fast hardware, it is not finished yet.
I am Saad, and I build all of this alone from Faisalabad. How TabVault started, and what I am making next.
How the studio works, in numbers
0
Accounts needed, for anything
TabVault needs no login. Neither will the games.
100%
Of TabVault's data kept on your device
No sync server, because there is no server and no account.
2
Things being built right now
TabVault, shipped and maintained. OdDraw, in development.
In the kit
What CraftlyKit makes
One shipped, one being built, and the status on each stated plainly. Nothing on this list is a mockup or a waiting list.
Being built
OdDraw, in progress
A hub of short games that start in a tab — no download, no account, nothing saved about you. It is not playable yet, so there is no link to give you and no date to promise.
OdDraw
Everyone gets the same secret word to draw — except one player, who gets a different word and does not know it. The odd one out has to draw something plausible enough to pass while everyone else draws to prove they know the real word.
Draw too vaguely and you look like the odd one out. Draw too precisely and you hand the imposter the answer.
Also in the hub
- Trivia
- Speed typing
- Drawing guess
- Tic Tac Toe
- Connect Four
- Hangman
- Rock Paper Scissors
Solo against the computer, locally with a friend on one device, or matched with someone online. No signup either way.
It will live at games.craftlykit.com once it is playable.
Writing
From the notebook
Notes on building small software: what earns a place in a toolbar, what a game owes someone on a slow connection, and how things here get made.
- What to do when your browser is slow on an old laptopOn an older machine the browser is rarely the real bottleneck. Here is how to find what is — disk, memory, extensions or heat — and fix the right one.7 min
- Are browser extensions safe? What to check before installing oneMost extensions are fine, but an installed one can read every page you visit. Here are the checks that separate the safe ones from the risky ones.8 min
- How to organise tabs for work and study separatelySeparate Chrome profiles give work and study their own windows, logins and extensions. Tab groups handle the lighter version. When to use which.7 min
Questions
Things people actually ask
TabVault saves your browser tabs along with your place in them. TabVault records the exact scroll position of a page and the exact timestamp of a YouTube video, so when you reopen a saved tab you land where you stopped rather than back at the top. Saved tabs go into categories you name yourself, and a whole category reopens in one click.
TabVault is free and needs no account. There is no sign-up, no login, and no email address to hand over — you install TabVault and it works.
TabVault stores your saved tabs in your own browser, on your own device. TabVault does not send your tabs, categories, scroll positions or video timestamps to a CraftlyKit server, because it has no server to send them to and no account to attach them to. The practical consequence worth knowing: clearing your browser data clears your saved tabs too, and they do not follow you to another computer.
OdDraw has no launch date to announce yet. OdDraw is in development and is not playable — the games page describes what is being built rather than pretending it is ready. When something is actually playable it will appear on this site with a working link, not before.
OdDraw is a drawing and deduction game. Everyone playing OdDraw gets the same secret word to draw except one player, who gets a different word and does not know it. That player has to draw something plausible enough to blend in, while everyone else draws to prove they know the real word. Draw too vaguely and you look guilty; draw too clearly and you hand the imposter the answer.
CraftlyKit is made by one person, Muhammad Saad Ali, working independently from Faisalabad, Pakistan. CraftlyKit is a studio name rather than a registered company. That means support is one person answering email within a few days, and that projects ship when they are finished rather than on a schedule.
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