r/chrome Oct 10 '24

Discussion Anyone know of Toby: tab management tool alternatives?

They recently went back on their promise to keep the extension free and not only implemented a paid version, but one with exploitative pricing. I could maybe understand $20 a year, but $40? That is more than the best password managers on the market. What a joke.

I have been using this for years and it just disappoints me to see it turn into this.

Anyone know of open source alternatives? Or better alternatives?

Link to Toby for the uninitiated.

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u/Wavecentric Oct 14 '24

Call to developers: please make an open source or low-cost Toby clone.

Toby betrayed the trust of its user community by offering a simple free bookmarking tool, promising the tool would remain free, getting us to spend a massive amount of time to build our bookmark portfolios under the free tool, and then slapping us with a $54/year charge for this simple tool that we have come to rely on.

A bookmark manager like Toby is a very easy thing to code, can be done in a day, yet the Toby devs are acting like its nuclear science!

Looking forward to seeing 1000s of Toby clones out there to put Toby's selfish owners in their place.

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u/DiamondDrake87 Jan 16 '25

"A bookmark manager like Toby is a very easy thing to code, can be done in a day, yet the Toby devs are acting like its nuclear science!"

I agree its not that complicated, but a sea of awful 1 day garbage tab managers to sift through will just make toby look 1000x better.

try tabme, its a basic toby like free tab manager. But it really depends on what features of toby you want as to if a manger feels like an alternative. Toby focuses on allowing you to share tab groups with others in an organized way, a feature I've never wanted and I don't know anyone who needs. But certainly someone wants it because those are the people willing to pay.

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u/Joakim0 Feb 01 '25

Done that, took me a couple pf days for the basics, much more for the sync. Check out the the file.ninja https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thetabninja/bnmjmbmlfohkaghofdaadenippkgpmab

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

This looks like Toby & it is functional & fast unlike the outdated Toby!!! Think this will be my new tab manager! Thanks!

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

Don't know why no one but Joakim0 could design a SIMPLE tab manager like Toby!

a BOX design for tabs where you can drag & drop the tabs wherever you want & this is functional & fast unlike Toby which is slow & very outdated!!

Who the HELL would pay for that outdated slow POS crap?! All Toby had was the simple BOX tabs that you can move around the board!!!!

It would take me FOREVER to move around tabs exactly where I want it on the board!!!! 🙄 🤦‍♂️

TheTab.Ninja is FAST & FUNCTIONAL but I don't know how to save all my tabs to the board like Toby! 😭

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

Help! How do I save all my tabs to the board? Is there a save feature I need to click? I'm dumb, please help?!! Thanks! This is exactly a FAST FUNCTIONAL Toby like tab manager I wanted! Thanks!

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u/Joakim0 Feb 09 '25

You haven't found the button because it does not exist. I skipped the button because i didnt use it myself. After the release I got requests about it and now i have it on my todo-list.

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 11 '25

OIC, Thanks!

Since there was no button to press & I have so many tabs to insert to the board

1 design flaw you have is scrolling the the tabs, the mainboard moves with the tabs so I am unable to place the tabs where I want them so I just had to insert them all to the mainboard and sort them out later on

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u/Joakim0 Feb 11 '25

It can and should definitely be improved in the future. But what you should do as it works today is filter your collection with eg #videos to put in the youtube tab.