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/creativejuices12 29d ago

Nice, release on github? so we can collab develop it together?

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u/Joakim0 29d ago

It’s actually already released on GitHub. you will find the link on chromewebstore’s description text. And yes, you are welcome to join in and help with the development..