Evernote Web Clipper vs Toby: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Toby manages live work sessions; Evernote Web Clipper builds a permanent research archive. Teams juggling shared tab sets should run Toby; anyone who must find clipped content months or years later needs Evernote — different problems, different winners.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Evernote Web Clipper | Toby | Marqly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr | Free · Productivity $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $6/month; Team $8/member/month billed yearly ($96/yr) or $10/month | Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month |
- Evernote Web Clipper
- Free · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr
- 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
- Marqly
- Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month
Pricing
- Evernote Web Clipper: Evernote Web Clipper has a free tier; paid plans are Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr. The clipper extension is free, but it saves into Evernote — and Evernote's free plan is capped at 50 notes, 1 notebook, and 1 device, so sustained use effectively requires a paid plan. Prices have risen repeatedly under owner Bending Spoons.
- Toby: Toby has a free tier; paid plans are Productivity $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $6/month; Team $8/member/month billed yearly ($96/yr) or $10/month. Free Starter plan caps at 60 saved tabs total — over the limit you keep read access but can't add more. No published trial length. Legacy free accounts were force-migrated to Starter in November 2024.
- Marqly: 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.
About Evernote Web Clipper
Evernote Web Clipper is the browser extension for Evernote, the long-running note app now owned by Bending Spoons. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera, it clips full pages, simplified articles, selections, or annotated screenshots into your notebooks, with tags and remarks added at save time. The backend is where it earns its keep: Evernote's search reads text inside images and, on paid plans, inside PDFs and documents, and the v11 release in January 2026 added an AI assistant that chats across your notes, semantic search, and AI meeting notes. Apps cover web, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, with offline notebooks on paid plans and a public API. The catch is pricing: the free plan is capped at 50 notes, one notebook, and a single device, while paid plans run from $14.99 per month (Starter, $99/year) to $24.99 per month (Advanced, $249.99/year) — among the most expensive in the category.
About Toby
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.
Which should you choose?
These two live in different tenses. Toby works in the present: your new-tab page becomes a board of visual collections, today’s tab session stashes in one click and restores tomorrow, and a teammate opens your shared space without even creating an account. Evernote Web Clipper works in the past-for-the-future: it extracts pages from the browser and embalms them — content, screenshots, annotations — inside notebooks engineered so that the thing you clipped in March is findable in November.
Choose Toby if:
- Your unit of work is the session — sets of tabs per project or client that open, close, and pass between people all week.
- Team features pay their way: shared spaces, invites, and SSO have no counterpart in a clipping workflow.
- Losing a link’s content is acceptable, because collections point at living sites you revisit rather than material you must retain.
Choose Evernote Web Clipper if:
- Retention is the requirement — clipped content survives site deaths, redesigns, and paywalls because Evernote keeps the content itself.
- Search depth matters: OCR across images and PDF search reach places Toby, with no full-text search at all, cannot go.
- You capture in many forms — article mode, selections, annotated screenshots — rather than filing URLs.
Bottom line, stated plainly: this is an odd-couple comparison, and the right answer is usually “whichever matches your actual problem,” not a points victory. Tab overload with collaborators means Toby at $4.50/member/month. A durable, searchable body of clipped knowledge means Evernote at its admittedly steep $99–$249.99/year. Buying one to do the other’s job is how both products earn their bad reviews.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither Evernote Web Clipper nor Toby fully solves it. Marqly auto-tags and summarizes every save with AI and lets you retrieve any of them by describing what you remember — plus a highlighter, YouTube summaries with transcripts, and save-as-PDF. There's a free tier with no card required.
Evernote Web Clipper vs Toby FAQ
Which is better for research, Evernote or Toby?
Evernote, without contest. It stores the actual page content — full clips, simplified articles, annotated screenshots — with OCR reading text inside images and paid-plan search inside PDFs, plus a v11 AI assistant that chats across your notes. Toby stores links only: no archiving, no highlights, no full-text search, so a source that goes offline is simply lost.
Which is better for team collaboration?
Toby — it is the rare tab tool built for organizations, with shared spaces, member invites, org-wide collections, SSO on the $8/member/month Team plan, and public collection links that need no account to view. Evernote supports sharing notes and notebooks, but its clipper workflow is fundamentally personal: you clip into your own account, not a shared surface.
How do their prices compare?
Toby is cheaper but capped: free for 60 saved tabs, then $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) for Productivity or $8/member/month ($96/yr) for Team. Evernote runs $14.99/month or $99/year for Starter and $249.99/year for Advanced, with a free plan limited to 50 notes and one device. Neither has a usable long-term free tier for heavy users.