Windows 10 & 11 · launch price $14.95

200 unsaved Notepad tabs.
Saved in 3 seconds.

You use Notepad as a scratchpad — then one day there are hundreds of tabs you never saved. Notepad Rescue pulls them all out at once: auto-named, de-duplicated, done.

Rescue my tabs — $14.95 See how it works
No install — one .exe Your notes never leave your PC Nothing deleted without asking
＋187 tabs found
3 dupes hidden
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Watch it rescue a pile of tabs.

38 seconds · sound on

The pile-up

You didn't mean to pile up 200 tabs. Notepad just… let you.

Notepad became your scratchpad — a phone number here, a draft there, a to-do you never moved. Months later you go to close it and get a wall of "Do you want to save?" pop-ups. So you leave them open forever, not wanting to be bothered.

✕ The "Save All" trap

Yes, Notepad has Save All. It doesn't help.

For tabs you've never saved, "Save All" throws a Save As box at you for every single one — you still type a name and pick a folder by hand, over and over. With a few hundred tabs, that's not a fix. It's an afternoon.

✓ The Notepad Rescue way

One click. Named, sorted, saved.

Notepad Rescue reads every unsaved tab straight from Notepad, auto-names each one from its first line, lets you weed out duplicates, and writes the whole pile to one folder of your choosing — no per-file dialogs. Then it can close Notepad and tidy up for you.

Everything it does

Small app. Genuinely useful.

Purpose-built for one annoying job — and finished to the last detail.

Finds every unsaved tab

Even ones you've never saved once. One click surfaces the whole pile with a live preview.

Smart auto-naming

File names are generated from each note's first line. Don't like one? Rename inline with F2 — full undo included. Double-click any note to open it in Notepad.

Duplicate finder

One click flags identical and near-identical notes and unticks them. You choose how strict, and which copy to keep.

Search & filter

Type to filter the list instantly — by file name or by the full text inside each note.

One-click cleanup

Discard the tabs you don't want straight out of Notepad — with a confirmation so nothing goes by accident.

Save anywhere & close

Write to any folder, then optionally close Notepad and clear the saved tabs — no more save prompts.

New in 1.2 · included with the full version

Now you can search your Notepad tabs with your AI, via MCP.

Your Search box matches exact words. Connect the AI you already use, and it reads the notes themselves — so it can find them by meaning, then save them for you.

You ask“Find all my Notepad tabs about recipes and save them to Desktop\Recipes.”
You ask“Summarise what I was working on in my tabs last month.”
You ask“Do any of my tabs contain something that looks like a password?”
You ask“Group my unsaved tabs by topic and save each group into its own folder.”

Finds notes no keyword search could

Your recipe notes might say tortillas, tamarind, bay leaf — sharing no common word. Your AI gathers them anyway, because it understands what they're about.

It can read and save. That's all.

There is deliberately no delete or edit tool. The worst any AI can do is write extra .txt copies — your Notepad tabs are never touched.

Your notes still stay yours

The app itself never connects to the internet. Connecting an AI is opt-in, and only then do the notes it reads go to that AI — exactly like anything you paste into a chat.

Built on MCP, the open standard — one connector works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, LM Studio and any other AI client that runs local MCP servers.
Three steps

From chaos to a clean Notepad in under a minute.

Scan

Open Notepad Rescue and click Scan Notepad. Every unsaved tab appears in a tidy list with previews and dates.

Tidy

Rename, search, or find duplicates. Untick anything you don't want. You're always in control before a single file is written.

Save

Pick a folder and click Save Selected. Your notes land as clean .txt files and the folder pops open.

Simple pricing

Pay once. Yours forever.

$19.99
$14.95
launch price · one-time · no subscription
  • Unlimited saving — hundreds of tabs at once
  • NEW: connect your AI — search notes by meaning
  • A single .exe — download & run, no install
  • Fully offline — nothing leaves your PC
  • Search, dedupe, rename, undo & cleanup
  • Built-in Quick Start & User Guide
Get Notepad Rescue →
Windows 10 & 11 · needs the modern (tabbed) Notepad
Want to try it first? Get Notepad Rescue Lite free — 15 tabs per scan, no time limit.
Get Notepad Rescue Lite from Microsoft Store
or download it directly
Good to know

Questions, answered.

Will it delete my notes?

Not unless you ask it to. Scanning and saving only read your tabs and write new .txt files — nothing is removed. The only features that clear tabs out of Notepad are ones you choose: "Close Notepad after saving" and "Discard Unchecked" (which asks you to confirm first).

Does it work while Notepad is open?

Yes. Notepad Rescue reads Notepad's tab data even while the app is running, so you never have to close anything first.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Notepad Rescue is a single .exe file — download it and double-click. No installer, no dependencies.

Is my data private?

Completely. Everything runs locally on your PC. Notepad Rescue has no internet connection, no accounts, and no telemetry. Your notes never leave your machine.

Does it work with the old Notepad?

It needs the modern, tabbed Notepad — the default on Windows 11, or the free Microsoft Store version on Windows 10. The classic pre-tabs Notepad keeps no recoverable data, so there's nothing to rescue there.

Why does Windows warn me on first launch?

Only if you download the app directly from this website. Because the app isn't code-signed, Windows SmartScreen may show a caution on the direct download — click More info → Run anyway, and you'll usually only see it once. Prefer to skip it altogether? Notepad Rescue Lite is on the Microsoft Store — Store installs are Microsoft-signed and don't show this warning.

How much does Notepad Rescue cost?

Notepad Rescue is $14.95 (USD) at launch — regular price $19.99. One-time purchase, no subscription, yours forever. It runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the modern tabbed Notepad.

Can I use it with my AI assistant?

Yes — the full version includes an AI connector built on MCP, the open standard supported by Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, LM Studio and others. One connector works with all of them. Once it's set up you can ask your AI things your Search box can't do — "find all my tabs about recipes and save them to Desktop\Recipes" — because the AI understands what your notes are about, not just which words they contain. The connector can only read your tabs and save copies: it can never delete or change anything in Notepad. Note that when you choose to connect an AI, the notes it reads are sent to that AI provider, just like anything you paste into a chat — the app itself stays fully offline.

Is there a free version?

Yes — Notepad Rescue Lite, free forever on the Microsoft Store (or as a direct download), no time limit. It scans, previews, searches, and saves up to 15 tabs per scan (scan again anytime for 15 more). Tabs beyond that show greyed-out so you can see everything you have at a glance. The full version removes the per-scan cap entirely and adds Find Dupes, rename & undo, open-in-Notepad, and one-click cleanup. Nothing is ever deleted in Lite: tabs you don't save simply stay in Notepad.

Stop babysitting a hundred tabs.

Save them all at once without going through hundreds of save dialogs, get a clean Notepad, and never dread closing Notepad again.

Rescue my tabs — $14.95