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Never Lose or Retype
Anything Online Again

DraftGuard saves what you type online, restores lost work, and helps you reuse your best answers anywhere. Forms, applications, essays, messages, emails. Everything stays private on your device.

Think of it as Google Docs autosave, but for everything you type on the internet.

Recover. Reuse. Autofill.

Never saves passwords Skips payment fields 100% local storage, no servers
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See It In Action

Three Things DraftGuard Does

Recover. Reuse. Autofill.

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Pillar 1Recover

Page crashed? Session expired? One click brings back everything you typed.

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Pillar 2Reuse

Wrote a great application answer? Pull it into your next application without retyping.

Pillar 3Autofill

Save any form as a template. DraftGuard recognizes similar forms and fills them automatically.

Who Is This For?

If you type into forms online, DraftGuard is for you.

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Job Seekers

Applying to jobs means typing the same answers over and over. DraftGuard saves your answers, protects them from crashes, and helps reuse them on the next application.

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Students

Protect essays, scholarship forms, and discussion posts from portal crashes. Never lose a 2,000-word answer again.

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Freelancers & Admins

Save hours on repetitive client intake forms, invoices, and government portals. Build a template once, fill it in seconds.

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Anyone Online

If you've ever lost a long message, email, or form response, DraftGuard has your back — on every site, automatically.

We've All Been There

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Page Crashed

You spent 45 minutes on a job application. The page freezes. Everything is gone.

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Session Expired

You were filling out a government form. It timed out after 20 minutes. Start over from scratch.

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Retyping Everything

Your tenth job application asks the same questions as the first nine. You're copying from a doc like it's 2005.

DraftGuard makes sure none of this ever happens again.

How It Works

Three steps. Zero friction.

1

Install DraftGuard

One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account needed. No setup. No permissions to grant beyond what's necessary.

2

Type Normally

DraftGuard silently saves your work every few seconds in the background. You won't even notice it's there.

3

Recover, Reuse, Autofill

Recover lost entries instantly. Reuse saved answers across applications. Autofill similar forms with one click.

Comparison

Why Not Just Use Chrome Autofill?

Chrome Autofill

  • Fills basic info like name, address, payment.
  • Works from a fixed profile.
  • No crash recovery.
  • No history of past answers.
  • Can't reuse a job application answer on a different site.

DraftGuard

  • Saves your long custom answers and written responses.
  • Learns from what you actually type.
  • Recovers lost work if a page crashes, expires, or refreshes.
  • Searchable history of everything you've written.
  • Finds similar forms and suggests reuse from past answers.
Features

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

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Works Everywhere

Forms, essays, applications, emails, messages. If you can type in it, DraftGuard protects it.

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100% Private

Your data never leaves your device. No servers. No accounts. No tracking. Everything is stored locally.

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Smart Templates

Save any completed form as a template. DraftGuard uses fuzzy matching to recognize similar forms on any site.

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Smart Recovery

DraftGuard only offers to restore when it detects you actually lost data. No annoying popups otherwise.

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Full Draft History

Browse and restore any previously saved draft. Search your history to find the perfect answer you wrote six months ago.

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Works with Modern Apps

React, Angular, Vue, Gmail, Notion, Workday, Greenhouse — DraftGuard handles them all.

Pricing

Free forever. Pro when you need more.

Free
$0 /forever
  • ✓ Auto-save on all sites
  • ✓ Restore most recent draft
  • ✓ 7-day history
  • ✓ Local privacy
Add to Chrome
Best Value — Limited Time
Founding Pro
$4.99 one-time
Founding price. Will increase after beta.
  • ✓ Unlimited history
  • ✓ Search all past answers
  • ✓ Smart fill from history
  • ✓ Saved answer templates
  • ✓ Favorites
  • ✓ Export and import
  • ✓ Extended retention
Get Founding Pro — $4.99

Lock in lifetime access before the price goes up. Founding members get all future Pro features at no extra cost.

Coming Soon
Pro
$29.99 /year
  • ✓ Everything in Founding Pro
  • ✓ Cloud sync across devices
  • ✓ Encrypted cloud backup
  • ✓ Team sharing (planned)
Privacy Promise

What DraftGuard Cannot See

  • Passwords — automatically detected and skipped.
  • Credit card numbers — payment fields are never read.
  • CVV codes — security codes are always ignored.
  • Hidden form fieldstype="hidden" inputs are not touched.
  • File uploads — file inputs are skipped entirely.

DraftGuard has no servers, and the developer cannot access your data. Everything is stored in your browser's local database, and you can delete it all anytime from Settings.

FAQ

Common questions

Is my data safe?

Yes. DraftGuard stores everything locally in your browser using IndexedDB. Your data never touches our servers. We don't have servers. We don't have accounts. Your data is yours.

Can I reuse answers across different websites?

Yes. Save any form as a template, and DraftGuard will recognize similar forms on other sites and offer to autofill your saved answers. The matching is fuzzy — it works even when field labels differ slightly between sites.

Does DraftGuard work on job application sites like Workday?

Yes. DraftGuard monitors form fields on all websites, including Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Indeed, and LinkedIn. If a site uses standard form inputs or contenteditable fields, DraftGuard protects them.

Does it work with Gmail, Notion, and Google Docs?

Yes. DraftGuard monitors contenteditable fields, which is what Gmail, Notion, and most modern rich text editors use. It also handles React, Angular, and Vue controlled inputs correctly.

Does it save my passwords?

No. DraftGuard automatically detects and skips all password fields. Password inputs are hardcoded to be ignored at the field-detection level — they're never read, never stored, and the setting cannot be turned off.

Does it save credit card numbers?

No. DraftGuard automatically skips all payment and financial fields. Credit card numbers, CVV codes, expiration dates, and any input that looks like a payment field (by name, label, or autocomplete attribute) are detected and ignored before they're ever read.

Where is my data stored?

Everything is stored locally on your device in your browser's IndexedDB. DraftGuard has no servers, no accounts, no cloud, and no analytics. Your data never leaves your computer. You can export it as JSON or delete it all from Settings at any time.

Can DraftGuard see my banking sites?

You can blacklist any site in Settings, and DraftGuard will never run on sites you block. In the recovery bar itself there's a "Don't show on this site" link that adds the current domain to your blacklist in one click. Any URL path containing /checkout, /payment, or /billing is also automatically skipped.

Will it slow down my browser?

No. DraftGuard is under 50KB and uses event delegation so it only activates when you actually click on a form field. It adds less than 5ms to page load time.

What happened to Lazarus Form Recovery?

Lazarus was a beloved Chrome extension that auto-saved form data for millions of users. It was discontinued years ago. DraftGuard is the modern, privacy-first successor built for today's web — including support for React, Vue, SPAs, contenteditable editors, and smart template autofill.

Which sites can I exclude?

Any domain you want. Add sites to the blacklist in Settings, or use the "Don't show on this site" link directly in the recovery bar to silence DraftGuard on the current site in one click. Any URL path containing /checkout, /payment, or /billing is also automatically skipped regardless of blacklist.

Stop losing your work.

Join thousands of people who recover, reuse, and autofill forms without thinking twice.

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