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Best Toby alternatives (2026)

Toby is a visual tab manager built around the browser's new-tab page. Open tabs save into drag-and-drop collections, whole sessions can be stashed and restored in one click, and collections group into spaces that can be shared with teammates or published as public links that require no Toby account. It began inside Vancouver venture studio Axiom Zen in 2016, was once named a top Chrome extension of the year by Google and Product Hunt, and now claims more than 500,000 users under operator Launch Labs. Extensions cover Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, a web app works anywhere, and companion apps bring collections to iOS and Android. Toby AI can name, sort, and group open tabs automatically. Toby stores links rather than page content, so there is no archiving, highlighting, or full-text search. The free Starter plan caps at 60 saved tabs; Productivity costs $4.50 per member per month billed yearly, and Team runs $8 with SSO and centralized billing. Below are the strongest alternatives in 2026, ranked honestly: each covers a different mix of jobs, and the right one depends on yours.

The best Toby alternatives, ranked

  1. #1

    Marqly

    The AI bookmark manager — save once, find it instantly

    Marqly covers the core job — save, organize, retrieve — and adds semantic search (find by meaning), AI summaries, YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) that Toby doesn't offer. Every save is auto-tagged and summarized, and semantic search finds things by meaning. Free tier, no card required.

    • Semantic search finds saves by meaning — describe what you remember, no exact titles needed
    • AI tags and summarizes every save automatically, so nothing needs manual filing
    • YouTube AI card puts summaries, transcript, and Q&A right on the watch page

    Pricing: Marqly has a free tier; paid plans are $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month. 7-day free trial of Pro. Free tier needs no card; Pro unlocks chat with saves and video chat.

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  2. #2

    OneTab

    One click collapses every open tab into a list — free, no account

    The best free tab parker ever made; just don't mistake a local URL list for a permanent library. Anyone drowning in open tabs who wants a free, private, zero-setup way to park them — and doesn't need sync, mobile access, or saved page content.

    • Completely free with no account, no limits, and no upsell — rare in this category
    • One-click tab collapse that the developer says cuts browser memory use by up to 95%
    • Strong privacy stance: tab URLs are never transmitted to the developers or anyone else unless you deliberately share a list

    Pricing: OneTab has a free tier. Entirely free: no paid tier, no limits, no account required. The announced end-to-end-encrypted cross-device sync is 'coming soon' with no pricing stated, so whether sync stays free is unknown.

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  3. #3

    Workona

    Project workspaces for your browser — tabs, docs, notes, and tasks per space

    The most complete browser workspace manager, if you'll pay the subscription and live in its cloud. People and teams who juggle several projects at once and want each one's tabs, docs, notes, and tasks kept together and synced — not just parked.

    • True workspace model: each space bundles open tabs, saved links, cloud files, notes, and tasks for one project, with instant context switching
    • Automatic session saving with cloud backups — hourly snapshots and 90-day session history on paid plans mean a crash never loses a window
    • Real cross-device sync, including native iPhone and iPad apps that can show the tabs open on your desktop

    Pricing: Workona has a free tier; paid plans are Pro from $7/month billed annually ($84/yr); Team from $8/user/month billed annually, 3-user minimum. Free plan is capped at 5 spaces (cut from 10 in late 2024). Monthly-billing rates aren't displayed on the pricing page (third parties report $9/mo Pro) and no trial length is published. 50% discount for verified nonprofit and education users.

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  4. #4

    Raindrop.io

    The all-in-one bookmark manager

    The best traditional bookmark filing cabinet — organization is world-class, but finding things still depends on your own tags and keywords. Collectors and visual organizers who file thousands of bookmarks into structured collections and want polished apps everywhere without paying.

    • One of the most generous free plans anywhere: unlimited bookmarks, collections, and highlights
    • Polished apps on every platform — web, Mac, iOS, Android, and all major browser extensions
    • Strong visual organization with covers, nested collections, and multiple view modes

    Pricing: Raindrop.io has a free tier; paid plans are $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month). The free plan is unusually generous — unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices. Pro adds full-text search, AI suggestions, permanent page copies, reminders, annotations, and daily backups. Yearly billing is about 20% cheaper than monthly.

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  5. #5

    Instapaper

    The original read-it-later app, saving articles since 2008

    Still the purest reading experience in the category; choose it for distraction-free reading, not for organizing or resurfacing a large library. Long-form readers who want a quiet, beautifully typeset queue of articles — especially Kindle owners and anyone migrating a Pocket export.

    • The cleanest, most typography-focused reading view in the category, refined since 2008
    • Reliable offline reading on iPhone, iPad, and Android
    • Send-to-Kindle delivery and a PDF reader for Premium subscribers

    Pricing: Instapaper has a free tier; paid plans are $5.99/month or $59.99/year (Premium). Premium doubled in price in late 2023 (from $3/month, $30/year). The free tier covers unlimited saving and offline reading; Premium adds full-text search, a permanent archive, unlimited notes, text-to-speech playlists, speed reading, and send-to-Kindle.

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  6. #6

    Readwise Reader

    The power-reader app that folds articles, RSS, newsletters, PDFs, and highlights into one inbox

    The most powerful reading tool on the market — worth the subscription for heavy readers, overkill and overpriced for casual bookmarking. Serious readers and note-takers who consume large volumes across articles, newsletters, PDFs, and video, and want highlights flowing into Notion or Obsidian.

    • Handles every content type in one inbox: articles, RSS, newsletters, PDFs, ePubs, YouTube videos, and Twitter threads
    • Ghostreader AI can summarize documents, define terms, and answer questions about what you're reading
    • YouTube videos get synced transcripts you can read, highlight, and query

    Pricing: Readwise Reader costs $9.99/month billed annually ($119.88/year) or $12.99/month billed monthly (Full plan). 30-day free trial. No permanent free tier — after the 30-day trial you must subscribe. Reader is only included in the Full plan; the cheaper Lite plan ($5.59/month billed annually) covers classic Readwise highlight syncing without the Reader app.

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Marqly vs Toby, feature by feature

Feature MarqlyToby
AI auto-tagging ✓ ✓
Semantic search (find by meaning) ✓ —
AI summaries ✓ —
YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) ✓ —
Chat with your saves ✓ —
Web highlighter ✓ —
Notes on highlights ✓ ✓
Save page as PDF ✓ —
Full-text search ✓ —
Save all open tabs ✓ ✓
Public sharing (boards/collections) ✓ ✓
Pocket import ✓ —
Browser bookmarks import ✓ ✓
Offline reading — —
iOS app ✓ ✓
Android app — ✓
Browser extension ✓ ✓
Free tier ✓ ✓
Public API — —
Self-hostable — —
Price Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month Free · Productivity $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $6/month; Team $8/member/month billed yearly ($96/yr) or $10/month
Marqly
Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month
Toby
Free · Productivity $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $6/month; Team $8/member/month billed yearly ($96/yr) or $10/month

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Toby alternatives FAQ

Is Toby free?

Toby's free Starter plan exists but caps you at 60 saved tabs total — hit the limit and you keep read access but can't add more. Paid plans are per member: Productivity at $4.50/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $6 monthly, and Team at $8/month billed yearly ($96/yr) with SSO. Toby moved to this freemium model in July 2023.

Is Toby still maintained?

Yes. The Chrome extension was updated in June 2026 and the Firefox add-on the same month, so development is clearly active. Toby launched in 2016 out of Axiom Zen and is now run by Launch Labs, claiming over 500,000 users. The 4.2-star Chrome rating reflects pricing-change backlash more than abandonment.

What is the best Toby alternative?

For team workspaces, Workona is the closest match with deeper app integrations. If you just want free tab collapsing with no account, OneTab is the minimal option. If your real problem is finding saved things again later, an AI bookmark manager like Marqly — with auto-tagging and semantic search — covers the save-for-later half that Toby's link-only collections don't.

Does Toby work on iPhone?

Yes, partially. There's a native companion app, Toby for Tabs, on the App Store (iOS 13+) for browsing and saving to your collections, and the web app works in mobile Safari. But Toby's core experience — saving and restoring whole tab sessions — lives in the desktop browser extension, so the iPhone app is a viewer more than a workspace.

Can I export my data from Toby?

Yes. From Settings, the Data section exports your collections in three formats: JSON (a full backup in Toby's own format, including notes and tags), HTML (the standard browser-bookmark format other managers can import), and TXT (a plain list of URLs). Note that only the JSON export preserves notes and tags, and there's no public API.