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.
Page crashed? Session expired? One click brings back everything you typed.
Wrote a great application answer? Pull it into your next application without retyping.
Save any form as a template. DraftGuard recognizes similar forms and fills them automatically.
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.
Protect essays, scholarship forms, and discussion posts from portal crashes. Never lose a 2,000-word answer again.
Save hours on repetitive client intake forms, invoices, and government portals. Build a template once, fill it in seconds.
If you've ever lost a long message, email, or form response, DraftGuard has your back — on every site, automatically.
You spent 45 minutes on a job application. The page freezes. Everything is gone.
You were filling out a government form. It timed out after 20 minutes. Start over from scratch.
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.
One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account needed. No setup. No permissions to grant beyond what's necessary.
DraftGuard silently saves your work every few seconds in the background. You won't even notice it's there.
Recover lost entries instantly. Reuse saved answers across applications. Autofill similar forms with one click.
Forms, essays, applications, emails, messages. If you can type in it, DraftGuard protects it.
Your data never leaves your device. No servers. No accounts. No tracking. Everything is stored locally.
Save any completed form as a template. DraftGuard uses fuzzy matching to recognize similar forms on any site.
DraftGuard only offers to restore when it detects you actually lost data. No annoying popups otherwise.
Browse and restore any previously saved draft. Search your history to find the perfect answer you wrote six months ago.
React, Angular, Vue, Gmail, Notion, Workday, Greenhouse — DraftGuard handles them all.
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type="hidden" inputs are not touched.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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