Raindrop.io vs Toby: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Raindrop.io wins for individuals: unlimited free saves versus Toby's 60-tab cap, and $28/year versus $54/year. Toby wins for teams — shared spaces, member management, and one-click session restore are things Raindrop was never built to do.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Raindrop.io | 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 · $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/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 | Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month |
- Raindrop.io
- Free · $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/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
- Marqly
- Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month
Pricing
- Raindrop.io: 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.
- 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 Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager that has been in continuous development since 2013 and is widely treated as the benchmark for organizing links at scale. Bookmarks live in nested collections with cover art, tags, and several view modes, and the free plan is unusually generous: unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices, plus import and export. Apps cover the web, Mac, iOS, and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. The Pro plan — about $28 a year — adds full-text search across saved pages, an AI assistant that suggests tags and collections, permanent archived copies of pages, annotations, reminders, a duplicate finder, and daily backups. Collections can be shared publicly or used collaboratively, and a documented API plus thousands of integrations make it easy to wire into other tools. Raindrop imports from Pocket, browser bookmark HTML files, and most competing services.
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?
Toby and Raindrop.io both catch what falls out of your browser, but they serve different rhythms of work. Toby lives in the new-tab page and thinks in sessions: save this working set, restore it tomorrow, share the space with teammates. Raindrop thinks in permanence: file the link, tag it, find it years later. Toby’s team features — shared spaces, invites, org-wide collections, SSO — have no real counterpart in Raindrop, while Raindrop’s depth as a library embarrasses Toby’s link-only collections.
Choose Raindrop.io if:
- You are one person with many bookmarks — unlimited free saves against Toby’s 60-tab ceiling settles it before pricing even enters
- Longevity matters: Pro’s permanent page copies and full-text search protect against link rot, which Toby’s bare links cannot survive
- You want Safari support and a real API; Toby offers neither
Choose Toby if:
- A team shares reference links — collaborative spaces with member management and no-account-needed public links are Toby’s genuine moat
- Your workflow is session-based: open a project’s tabs, work, stash them, restore next time, with Toby AI grouping strays automatically
- The new-tab page as home base appeals more than a separate app you have to visit
Bottom line: for personal bookmarking, Raindrop is better and cheaper at every tier, and the free-plan gap is enormous. Toby’s per-member pricing and 60-tab cap make it an awkward solo tool — its 4.2-star Chrome rating traces back to exactly that freemium squeeze — but for a team working out of shared tab collections, nothing in Raindrop replicates what Toby does. Decide based on headcount.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither Raindrop.io 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.
Raindrop.io vs Toby FAQ
Is Toby or Raindrop.io better for a solo user?
Raindrop.io, mainly on economics. Its free plan is unlimited; Toby's free Starter plan stops at 60 saved tabs total, after which you keep read access but cannot add more. Paid, Raindrop Pro runs about $28/year while Toby Productivity costs $54/year billed annually. Toby's edge — team spaces and session restore — matters less working alone.
Does Raindrop.io save whole tab sessions like Toby?
Partially. Raindrop can save open tabs in one click, turning them into bookmarks you can tag and file. What it lacks is Toby's workflow around sessions: stash an entire working set, then restore all of it later from the new-tab page. If your day revolves around opening and closing project-specific tab groups, Toby's model fits better.
Which archives page content, Toby or Raindrop.io?
Neither on free plans, and Toby never does — it stores links only, so nothing survives link rot, and there is no full-text search at all. Raindrop Pro (about $28/year) adds permanent copies of saved pages plus full-text search across them and daily backups, making it the only option here that can preserve content.