historoo vs Better History
Checked 26 October 2026. We make historoo, so weigh what we say about it accordingly.
Better History and historoo both make browser history more useful, but they do different jobs. Better History is a better way to manage Chrome’s own history. historoo is a way to find things by what you saw.
historoo isn’t connected to Better History (betterhistory.io) in any way. We looked at its website and Chrome Web Store listing to write this.
The short version
- Pick Better History if you want to tidy, clean up or export the history Chrome already has: delete by day or site, clear it on a schedule, export it as CSV.
- Pick historoo if your problem is “I saw it somewhere and can’t find it again”, and what you remember is a picture, a video or a headline.
- They don’t clash, so you can use both.
Side by side
| Feature | Better History | historoo |
|---|---|---|
| What it works on | Chrome’s own history | Its own record of what you looked at |
| Years of history from day one | Yes | No, it starts when you install it |
| Find a page by title or address | Yes, with regular expressions too | Yes |
| Find a picture by what it shows | No | Yes |
| Find a video from its captions | No | Yes |
| Search with a picture | No | Yes |
| Delete from Chrome’s history, and clean it up on a schedule | Yes | No, historoo deletes only its own copy |
| Export | CSV and HTML | Everything as a .zip, collections as a web page |
| Jump to a date | Yes | Search phrases like “last week” or before: |
| Your full history on all your computers | Chrome’s own synced tabs | With Pro, through your own Google Drive, encrypted |
| Languages | 18 | English |
| Browsers | Chrome, Edge, Opera | Chrome. Edge and Firefox coming soon |
| Cost | Free | Free. Pro is free during the beta |
Where Better History is stronger
Because it works on Chrome’s own history, Better History is useful the minute you install it: everything Chrome has kept is there. It’s a strong tool for cleaning up. You can delete by day, hour, site or keyword, keep some sites out of Chrome’s history entirely, and have old history deleted automatically. If you need your history in a spreadsheet, its CSV export does that, and it’s available in many more languages than historoo.
Where historoo is stronger
Better History, like Chrome, knows page titles and addresses. historoo also saves the things on the page that you actually looked at: pictures, videos with their captions, and headlines. It reads what each picture shows on your own computer, so you can search for “red car” or “latte art” and get back the picture and the page it was on. You can also right-click any picture on the web and ask “Where have I seen this?”.
With Pro, historoo keeps your history as long as you like, syncs it between your computers through your own Google Drive, encrypted so only you can read it, and lets you search it on historoo.com. Pro is free while historoo is in beta.
Privacy
Both extensions say they keep your history on your computer. historoo has no analytics and no ads, and your history never reaches our server, so there’s nothing for us to sell or hand over. Its privacy policy sets out exactly what an account holds (your email and settings) and what it never holds.
See if historoo finds what you remember
Install it, browse as normal for a day, then search for something you saw. Free, with no account.