How to find a website you visited but can’t remember
Checked 26 October 2026. We make historoo, so weigh what we say about it accordingly.
You saw it, you meant to go back, and now it’s gone. Here’s how to find it, starting with the quickest checks.
1. Search your browser history for a word you remember
Press Ctrl+H (⌘+Y on a Mac) to open Chrome’s history, then type into the search box at the top. Try the site’s name, a word that might be in the page’s title, or the topic. Chrome only searches titles and addresses, so try a few different words before giving up.
2. Scroll to the day you saw it
If you remember roughly when, open your history and scroll to that day. Seeing the pages around it often jogs your memory: “I was looking at train times, then…”.
3. Check your other devices
If you saw it on your phone, open Chrome’s history on your computer and look at Tabs from other devices. That needs sync turned on in both browsers. Otherwise, check your phone’s own history.
4. Look in Google’s My Activity
If you’re signed in to Google with Web & App Activity on, myactivity.google.com keeps your Google searches, and Chrome history too if you’ve chosen to include it. Searching there can find the search that led you to the page.
5. Search for what you remember about it
Describe the page in a search engine: what it was about, a phrase from it, the kind of site. Adding a site name helps, like sourdough starter site:reddit.com. If you remember a picture from it and still have the picture somewhere, a reverse image search with Google Lens or Bing can lead back to the page.
6. Check the places you might have saved it
Bookmarks, your reading list, open tabs in other windows, links you sent yourself in a chat or email, and your Downloads folder, if you saved anything from the page.
7. If you only remember a picture or a video
This is where browser history fails. It only knows titles and addresses, so “the photo of the blue kitchen” or “the video with the dog on the skateboard” won’t match anything. Our guide to finding a picture you saw online has more ideas for that.
So it doesn’t happen next time
historoo saves the pictures, videos and headlines you look at as you browse, on your own computer, and lets you search them by what you remember. Type “blue kitchen” and the picture comes back with the page it was on and when you saw it. It can’t find things from before you install it, but from then on you won’t lose them.
Never lose a page again
historoo is free, needs no account, and never sends your history anywhere.