Key takeaways
- Shift Version 147 ships three of the biggest updates we've released this year: tab grouping, encrypted passwords and payments sync, and a redesigned settings experience.
- Tab grouping lets you organize tabs into named, color-coded groups that are scoped to each Space and synced across your devices.
- Passwords and payments sync moves your most sensitive data with end-to-end encryption, so it's protected wherever you sign in next.
- The advanced settings redesign replaces Shift's old Chromium-style settings pages with one cohesive, searchable settings window.
- Every update here comes back to the same idea: Shift flexes around how you work, it doesn't ask you to work around it.
- Download Shift to try all four updates, or tell us what you'd want to see next.
Picture a Tuesday in late August. You've got a work Space open for the day job, a second Space for a side project you're finally making time for, and a third for the personal stuff, a flight to book, a form to fill out, an account you haven't logged into since spring. Each one has its own color now, so a quick glance at your desktop tells you which world you're in. The tabs inside each Space are grouped by what they're actually for, not just however you happened to open them. And when you sit down on a different laptop later that night, your passwords and saved cards are already there, no digging through a password manager, no re-typing a card number from memory, and entirely secure and private.
That's the shape of the last few releases. Our product team has been heads-down making Shift more customizable, more private, more secure, and more flexible around whatever your week actually looks like, and it landed at a good time: fall routines are picking back up, which usually means more tabs, more logins, and more contexts to keep straight. Here's what's new.
Tab Groups keep every project in its lane
Open tabs pile up fast, especially when you're running more than one project at once. Tab Groups give them somewhere to go. Right-click any tab and you can pull it into a named, color-coded group, so instead of one long row of tabs you've got a handful of groups that actually mean something.
Groups are scoped to a specific Space on purpose. A group is a real container for one part of your work, not just another flat list to scroll past. Pin a group to the Bookmarks Bar and it survives a restart. It also syncs across your devices, so the structure you built on your laptop shows up on your desktop too. Right now this works for your main tabs, with app tabs next on the list.
Read the full details in the 147.0.0 release notes.
Passwords and payments sync, guarded end to end
New device, new browser, and suddenly you're hunting down twelve passwords and re-typing a card number you can never remember correctly on the first try. Passwords and payments sync fixes that without asking you to trust it blindly. Your passwords and payment methods now sync across devices with end-to-end encryption, secured with a secret key, so this is data that stays protected in transit, not just convenient to access.
This shipped as its own dedicated sync path for a reason. Passwords and payment details are the most sensitive things most people store in a browser, and treating them with their own encrypted channel, rather than folding them into general sync, was a deliberate call, not an afterthought.
Read the full details in the 147.1.0 release notes.
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Read MoreSettings, rebuilt to match everything else
This one's smaller in scope than the first three, but it's real. Shift's settings used to live on old, native Chromium-style pages, functional, but not uniquely us. Now there's a dedicated settings window built to match the rest of the product: sidebar navigation, clickable settings cards, and visual styling that actually looks like Shift instead of leftover browser chrome.
It's a good example of where the team's attention goes even when it's not the flashiest update. Settings aren't something people open every day, but when you do, they shouldn't feel like a different product.
Read the full details in the 147.1.1 release notes.
Try it yourself
Four releases, one direction: a browser that organizes itself around your projects, looks like yours, keeps your sensitive data locked down, and doesn't make you dig through menus to change how it behaves. If you haven't tried Shift yet, download it and see what a browser built around your setup actually feels like.
Have an idea for a feature you'd love to see in Shift? Tell us at Shift Support. Some of what's in this release started exactly that way.
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Read MoreFAQ
What is tab grouping in Shift? Tab grouping lets you organize open tabs into named, color-coded groups. Groups are scoped to a specific Space, can be pinned to the Bookmarks Bar so they persist across restarts, and sync across your devices.
Does Shift sync passwords and payment methods across devices? Yes. As of Shift 147.1.0, passwords and payment methods sync across devices with end-to-end encryption, secured with a secret key.
What changed in Shift's settings? Shift 147.1.1 introduced a redesigned, dedicated settings window with sidebar navigation and clickable settings cards, replacing the old native Chromium-style settings pages.
Where can I read the full Shift 147 release notes? See the 147.0.0, 147.1.0, and 147.1.1 release notes for full detail.
