Toby: Tab Management Tool

Was pretty great for a time but as of the last few days its extension tab no longer opens. Just leads to a blank page that will load infinitely meaning all my saved tabs are no longer able to be accessed in any manner. Wonderful.

the free tier allows only 50 saved tabs there are plenty of alternatives out there

I love Toby and use it across six separate workspaces (personal, my business, two nonprofits, a client, and an advocacy group). I’m the only user in all of them. The product itself is great, but the upgrade/billing experience needs work. When I upgraded to “Unlimited,” the flow led me to believe I was upgrading my entire account. After paying, I found out the upgrade applied to only one workspace. For solo users managing multiple workspaces, this is confusing and makes budgeting hard. I’ve seen other users share similar experiences—thinking the plan is account-wide, getting charged multiple times across workspaces, or needing to contact support just to move an upgrade to a different workspace. Suggestions to improve: * Make it crystal clear that plans are per workspace before checkout. * Show exactly which workspace is being upgraded and allow switching it. * Offer an account-wide or multi-workspace bundle, or let us select multiple workspaces in one checkout with transparent pricing. * Add a Billing Dashboard that lists all workspaces, plan status, renewal dates, and total spend. * Allow self-service subscription transfers between workspaces with prorating and a short grace period after purchase. * Add a clear “How billing works” section and an FAQ with examples for multi-workspace, single-user setups. Toby is excellent otherwise, and I’d happily recommend it—once the billing transparency and multi-workspace upgrade flow are clearer. Ok... I'm changing my review as NO ONE has responded to my tech support emails or request for help. Bc of this, even as good as the software is, the lack of support, really sucks. I left another software bc of this and I will leave this one also, bc if you can't get help for any issues for a software you pay for, why even be in business at all?

I really loved this extension, sad that they limited bookmarks to a maximum of 60. I had the extension since way before they added this limit, so I had 70+ bookmarks saved. With this new limit I couldn't add anymore bookmarks unless I deleted many of the ones I had saved. If you want your free users to change into a paid account, incentivize them with new features, don't limit their activities in hopes of forcing them into a paid account. - A sincerely disappointed user.

I’ve had this extension for years, but its now reached a point where they're purposefully making it unusable unless you pay the subscription. They even promised it would stay free, so this feels pretty scummy.

https://www.gettoby.com/how-to-use 404 XD

its not free anymore

!!! Not recommended. I already lost all my bookmarks in Toby (on both work and personal computers) when they introduced the mandatory login/registration. Yes, the update forced me to log in or register, so I had no way to export my bookmarks — and after registering, none of my bookmarks were available anymore. I thought, “Okay, maybe that won’t happen again since everything is now saved in a database.” WRONG. Now they’ve introduced a subscription model, and my bookmarks were restored to a version from months ago, meaning I lost all recent changes. !!! I will stop using this tool. It’s a nice extension, but it certainly doesn’t deserve the prices they’re now asking for. And even if I were willing to pay, I wouldn’t trust them with my bookmarks again — they’ve lost them twice.

As always people get greedy, now to use for more than 60 tabs costs money..nah, i'm out!

60 cards limits is really too few.

You have to put: " YOU NEED TO SIGN UP" Why i need to sign up to external service to use my local bookmarks...

The absolute worst experience I've had with an extension or otherwise. I had installed it believing it would save a chrome session as is with tab groups, instead when I tried saving the tabs from a window it closed EVERYTHING and since I had 80+ tabs in that window, it exceeded the 60 tab limit so not only did I lose the tab groups which had everything organised but also so many tabs that were above the limit. It would've made sense to put the limit warning BEFORE closing everything now all my progress is lost. This was by far one of the worst things I’ve dealt with in anything tech-related.

used to be free, moving to raindrop.io

Not good after paid every paid, moving to tabextend

Hijacks your new tab page and won't let you change it without disabling the extension!!!

Why i can't log in with google account !!

The pricing updates and policies are exploitative. I've been using it for years, would love to support but not under this conditions. Moving to a different manager, it's a shame they took this route... alas it is what it is

Coukld not even fit my tabs from one window alone. 60 tab limit

i can only have 60 tabs only !!!!!!!!? why !!? .... i will never use it again

Locked my cards for money bruh

It used to be totally free and fantastic, but with the new limitations it just sucks. I'll move to other options.

Been using Toby for a couple of years and was pretty satisfied. Had around around a 1000 tabs saved in it. And suddenly, bam! They have gone paid, and I cant save any more tabs. The price is hefty too. Thankfully there are other options available online for free (wont name it here). Look at Reddit discussions to see how to export all toby saved data and import to other free solutions which are even better!

Worst company. First they make a system and say its free and make people move to their ecosystem. Then they suddenly announce that they need a subscription model, and that our data can no longer be stored there. It doesnt even offer much to be worthy of the expense.

I've been using Toby for years to manage my bookmarks and it's always been one of my absolute favorite tools to use. Now they are forcing people to pay for it, and have reduced the functionality so much I can't use it any more. I have a reduced income, and can't afford to pay for something like this, particularly when I've been able to use it for this long and already have so much information stored on it. Great work losing customers Toby!

Been using this extension for years. Now they won't let me save tabs for money grab. I'm deleting my account today.

I was one of the first few early adopters to promote this, but the new restrictions ruined the extension, they limit the tabs/ bookmarks to 60 entities. Also betraying the early users like me, who have so many tabs already saved and structured. Very dissapointed!

developers ruined the extension, they limit the tabs/ bookmarks to 60 entities

After demanding an upgrade it deleted ALL my information. First it didn't allow access to my tabs. Then it deleted my organisation due some bug. I lost everything for 2 years! Very greedy and bad.

Don't get this extension. Can't even access my other important tags anymore due to the new payment plan. I understand you need to make some money but at least let me get to my tags that I used before you decided to be greedy. Hopefully a better clone of this will show up Edit: I also like you all decided to try and fill the comments with bots so It won't look as bad lol.

I am leaving. This is disgusting. Only saved about 20 cards and still prompts I have exceeded 60 saved card limit. Upgrade to save more cards. I dont understand how this product dare to charge. What a rubbish

Loved this and always recommended everyone to use it. Now getting slapped with this paid plan just has me looking for alternatives tbh and no longer recommending to anyone. 60 cards is nothing. Toby is for heavy tab users like me. Ive had sessions with over 100 tabs... 60 would never suffice. Even now im almost 2k cards deep. Really a shame as ive used it for years. I wouldnt mind donating (and paying for additional features beyond unlim card saves) but having to pay a debit for a bookmark manager really isnt on my cards. Whilst im sure Yasmin will reply to this with several points of why its needed for running costs... i just dont see myself paying for saving tabs (again, additional features i would, but not unlim tabs).

Why on earth are you all charging money to use my PC power locally? The code execution happens on our machine and so does that mean we are paying $54 for cloud syncing? What if I only use this on one machine? Going to start looking for an alternative, this was supposed to be free for life and they have reneged on that promise. This extension is not worth the asking price, and limiting the amount of card tabs we can have is incredibly petty. From reading other reviews, it looks like Toby as a company seriously dropped the ball and forgot you actually need customers that want to support your upgrades and need to balance all those. Everyone I recommended this to at work is now looking for an alternative, because we simply don't need all the paid features and I am not sure why they are being forced upon us. This whole transition seems incredibly ham-handed. There's a price point I would have been willing to pay, but $54 dollars to save tabs on my local machine isn't it...

It's always the same (old trick)... They start with "Free forever" and once users have tested their software and made it somehow usable with lots of feedback, they come in and want to cash in.

Incredibly disappointed in the new change. Similar to other reviews that have already been posted, I find it incredibly unethical to wait until you've garnered a good user base before implementing restrictions & charges such as these. A 60-card limit is insane, given the fact that even you Yasmin Majdnia, as a developer, can end up with a whole pile of tabs that you'd need saved somewhere. If this was available from the beginning, it would have been integral as it would have allowed users like me to calculate if it's affordable, and if it's possible to invest into. Even where there would be a need to change things, then a sensible limit would make sense. But 60 cards... all I am left to do is delete my previous saves and delete my account. I also can't help but wonder if some of the glowing reviews are paid because this incessant repititon of how you have a discount for non-profits is just strange.

"Exceeded card limit" – ZERO stars if I could. Essentially, you can no longer manage or save more than 60 cards without paying for a subscription. If you had more than 60 cards saved before this change, you're now blocked from adding any additional ones until you reduce your card count. Was it a good extension? It was, but here's the problem: Implementing a paid restriction on a core function after attracting over 500,000+ users who rely on it, and then expecting people not to be upset is incredibly short-sighted. Absolutely WILD. To wait until users are heavily invested on a service and then decide to charge them once they are hooked? WHEW. Someone turn this into a masterclass of things NOT to do. --- - "We just wanted to be sustainable moving forward and bring many new improvements" – by punishing loyal, existing users who RAVE about their product. How considerate. - "It was never our intention to betray our users." Well, when you prioritize your own gain over everything else, consequences like breaking user trust usually aren't really top-of-mind, are they? - "We have a legacy plan to honor old use–" Nah, I'm good. What's the point of such a weak compromise? They're pretty much just asking us to pay to use it still. The free tier is not a great alternative either because it's practically worthless to build up from now. - "Just pay for it," some might say. I understand that perspective and honestly I would've paid for some of the other features when the time arose such as the collaboration and other things. I'm generally happy to support services I value. Yes, I understand the costs with running a company, however, I will never support a company that pulls stunts like this. Maybe if they went about it in a different way, sure, but this ain't it. Every time we spend money, we're casting a vote for the kind of world we want, and I despise this kind of behavior. Their "feedback" process probably looked something like: "Would you pay for this?", "YES", "ok." because I cannot imagine otherwise how anyone would decide to just flip a switch and paywall ALL of their users without a bag of money dangling over their head. You want us to pay $60 over and over again for what? To manage our bookmarks and saved links on the cloud? "Oh, but the other features-" Should've just left the main feature Toby was built upon alone. I don't need them and I don't want them anymore. --- In short, company go: 👍 Money 👎 Users Does that sound something you would want to invest in for the long-term? You may, but me? Pass. I don't care how game-changing their next improvements are. I don't care if they have the best product in the world. You do not pull the rug from users, ever. Now I'm left with a bad taste in my mouth. I should have looked for a local or native solution from the beginning that doesn't need an account to run and support the heck out of them rather than having my stuff tied to a service who can change the rules anytime at the drop of a hat. Now I have to export all my saves and delete my account. I will never use anything from this team again.

It is such a dumb idea to gut the free version, looking for an alternative

This is the first time i write a review for any chrome extension, i would give 0/5 stars if i could. Toby was a good extension, 5/5 however the developer team, after they gained 300k+ users with their FREE extension, decided to start charging money for it, thus their users now have to choose between using another extension or paying a monthly/yearly subscription to keep using Toby. Warning to Toby users : Just like developer team changed from free to 4.5$/month subscription, maybe they will change to 10$ or 20$/month subscription, who knows how greedy and unethical the devs will become, they are basically holding all their 300k+ users hostages and demanding this exortion fee if they want to keep using the app, AMAZING behaviour from these developers ( i'm talking to you too, Yasmin Madjnia )

How to change back but not deleting from chrome???

Toby is dead. Way too expensive for simple tab management especially since many browsers have it integrated. They also lied to long-term customers. Stop justifying your greediness and I dare you to answer with your ridiculous condescending excuses. So many free alternatives that they will never make money with their ridiculous business model: The.TabNinja Raindrop TabMe

Echoing the other people who felt betrayed by the free tier changes, I get that you guys wanted to monetize, but I also think you guys understand changing something from free to $54/year is gonna cause people to be annoyed like the "well, well, well, if it isnt the consecuences of my own actions" meme. As for what I'm changing to, I've fully uninstalled Toby and migrated the bookmarks to Raindrop.io and created a new tab experience by using a new tab redirect extension and a github repo called "Raindrop-HomePage" and modified it to show an specific collection.

simple tool, good if free, but now that they are forcing you to pay or you will not be able to use it , then no

I was a Toby fan and recommended it to others, but like everyone else I am shocked that they suddenly made it paid. I started using it for it's most basic tab management functionality and that is still the only thing I use. I have no problem if you add additional paid functionality like you initially did (collaboration, teams, organisations, productivity, mobile, teamwork etc). But don't get people to commit their tab management on the basis of a free plan to then pull the rug and force them to pay to use the same basic features. One guy had a simple idea and with two friends created a chrome extension. Lot's of people liked it and WOM spread leading to millions of downloads. But somewhere along the line Arthur left and someone thought: "we can turn this into a business and get rich!" So you started hiring more people and developing enterprise focused features that you could charge money for. But sadly the revenue was not enough, someone wanted more and someone had a terrible idea: "We still have those millions of customers that are depended on the original basic chrome extension, because they have been using it for years and would loose everything... let's force them to pay! (maniacal laughter)" And so ends the tragic tale of Toby, a once beloved tab manager that flew to close to the sun and decided "If I'm going down I'll take all our customers with me" The moral of the story is that not every product needs to be the next unicorn. Sometimes a cool little chrome extension is just a cool little chrome extension. Ben, Gui, Jad, JP, Summer and Yasmin - I hope you reconsider. Make the basic functionality free again. Any extra features you can make paid if you have to and if that doesn't make you enough money, consider doing something else, another project, another idea, another place, another opportunity. You are young and talented, don't let your legacy be that you ruined Toby. It can remain a nice thing millions of users enjoy, that you contributed to, even if it turns out it doesn't support a team of six. Some projects are meant to stay small. TLDR: You had a nice little chrome extension everyone loved, but someone got greedy and wanted it to be more, in the end ruining the nice thing you had.

I have reported Toby to the Chrome Store as "Not Trustworthy" and would encourage anyone with a similar experience to do the same. Simply go to the main Toby page in the Chrome Store, then search for "Flag Concern" to report Toby regarding its abusive pricing practices. It is extremely bad business to promise legacy customers that the app will continue to be free, getting us to further invest into using it, then reverse course a few months later and charge a whopping $54 / year. This is either deliberate abuse of the user base or just extremely insensitive -- either way, I can no longer trust Toby. As much as I love the app, I cannot do business with Toby or recommend them due to concerns of further abuse down the line. For a fair price, they could have had tons of loyal, happy users. Bye bye, Toby! 👋 Developer's Response: The developer, Yasmin Majdnia, explained that while they initially offered a Legacy plan, the need to cover increased operational costs and maintain sustainability forced them to shift to a paid model. They emphasized that long-term plans can't always be guaranteed due to changes in economic circumstances. My Take: I understand that businesses face challenges and sometimes need to adjust their pricing. However, I still believe this abrupt change, after promising a free plan, has broken trust with legacy users like myself. If the transition had been more gradual or if they had offered a more reasonable price point, I might have been open to continuing as a paying customer. Instead, the sudden shift feels like a bait-and-switch, whether intentional or not.

Looking for my new toby. Please leave ideas here!

Sorry-we are witnessing the end of toby. Look for alternatives! The promise some years back was to get it for free and it will remain free. This was the reason why I have chosen toby many years back and why I recommended it to many friends, relatives and colleagues. With the new plan structure the free plan is quite useless. Thanks toby team for not considering a plan for loyal early users, but hey it is just a chrome extension. They come and go. I was a real fan-it added value to my daily routines and it worked well for years but I am not going to pay a subscription price for a browser extension that is in the order of a streaming service.

Just sad. Such planning is how one loses users, goodwill, and word of mouth marketing. Users will simply move on to the next thing. Current users should have been simply allowed to continue as is.

what was the point of the legacy plan if you're just going to discontinue it shorty after? really disappointing development.

Just read about the monetization plans. The limited use for the free, isnt worth... not event the time spent on setting this up. As lot of people wrote, I´ll switch to anothr option right now. The app wasnt perfect, but was functional... now, isnt.

Using this for ages, but it's time to look for a freeware alternative

It was cool, but they started monetize people. I paid one time fee, and right now they are going to cancel it and make limitations on my account. I do not recommend to install it. This extension do not need at all 7 people. Just one developer.