mymind vs Toby: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Toby organizes the tabs your work runs on and shares them with a team; mymind is a private memory bank for things worth keeping. Work-session management points to Toby; a personal inspiration library points to mymind.
Feature comparison
| Feature | mymind | 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 · The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/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 |
- mymind
- Free · The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/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
- mymind: mymind has a free tier; paid plans are The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/yr. Every account starts on a free "guest plan" capped at 100 cards — free forever, not a timed trial. AI tagging starts on Student of Life; AI summaries, reading mode, article backup, and the PDF analyzer require Mastermind. The Bookmarker tier has no AI features.
- 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 mymind
mymind is a private, visual saving tool that calls itself "the extension of your mind." Everything you save — bookmarks, images, quotes, notes, PDFs — lands as a card on one searchable visual canvas. There are no folders and no manual filing: AI tags each card automatically and recognizes objects, colors, brands, and text inside images, so you retrieve things by describing what you remember. The product is deliberately single-player: nothing is shareable, there are no social features or ads, and the company is funded only by memberships. Apps cover the web, Mac, iOS, and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Every account starts on a free 100-card guest plan; paid plans run from $4.99 to $12.99 per month, with AI summaries, reading mode, and a PDF analyzer reserved for the top Mastermind tier. A read/write API entered beta in mid-2026. Bulk import is deliberately unsupported.
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?
mymind and Toby both replace messy browser habits, but they aim at different messes. Toby targets the working day: open tabs become drag-and-drop collections on your new-tab page, whole sessions save and restore in one click, and spaces are shared across a team. mymind targets the long term: a private, beautiful canvas where saved images, links, and quotes are AI-tagged and searchable by what you remember about them. One tool is for what you are doing; the other is for what you want to keep.
Choose Toby if:
- Your tabs are your workflow — recurring project sets, client dashboards, research sessions that stash and restore on demand.
- Other people need in: shared spaces and no-account public links make Toby the collaborative option, while mymind shares nothing by design.
- Session management should be free-ish — the 60-tab Starter plan covers light use before the $4.50/member/month tier kicks in.
Choose mymind if:
- You save for future-you, not this-week-you: inspiration and references that need to resurface months later, findable by AI-powered search.
- Images matter — recognition of objects, colors, and brands inside pictures is something Toby does not attempt.
- Privacy is the feature: no ads, no tracking, no social anything, funded purely by memberships.
Bottom line: this is a workflow tool versus a memory tool, and the overlap is thinner than the category labels suggest. Toby’s links-only collections lose content to link rot and cannot be searched by text, which disqualifies it as an archive. mymind cannot save a tab session or share a board, which disqualifies it as a work surface. Pick by the problem: collaborative tab chaos means Toby, a growing private collection means mymind.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither mymind 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.
mymind vs Toby FAQ
Which works for teams, mymind or Toby?
Only Toby. It was built around collaboration: shared spaces, member invites, org-wide collections, SSO on the $8/member/month Team plan, and public collection links anyone can open without an account. mymind sits at the opposite extreme — nothing can be shared, ever. No public boards, no collaborators, no links. It is marketed as a private extension of your own mind.
How do mymind and Toby compare on price?
Both start free with hard caps: Toby's Starter plan stops at 60 saved tabs, mymind's guest plan at 100 cards. Toby then costs $4.50/member/month billed yearly ($54/yr) or $8/member/month for Team. mymind runs $4.99/month without AI, $7.99/month ($79/yr) for AI tagging, and $12.99/month ($129/yr) for the full Mastermind tier with summaries.
Do both use AI?
Yes, for different jobs. Toby AI names, sorts, and groups your open tabs into collections automatically — organization of the working set. mymind's AI goes deeper on the saved object itself: auto-tagging every card, recognizing objects, colors, brands, and text inside images, powering semantic search, and (on Mastermind) generating summaries. Toby has no full-text or semantic search at all.