Best Toby Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Unlimited)

July 9, 2026 · Hintword team

Toby earned its reputation as one of the friendliest ways to turn new-tab chaos into tidy visual collections. But in July 2023 it moved from fully-free to a freemium model: the free Starter plan is now capped at 60 saved tabs, and unlimited saving requires the Productivity plan at $4.50 per user per month, billed yearly (about $54/year).

If you hit that cap — or you just want more than tab management from the tool that owns your new tab — here are the alternatives worth looking at in 2026.

What to look for in a Toby alternative

Before the list, three things worth checking on any candidate:

• Free tier limits. The reason most people leave Toby is the 60-tab cap. Make sure the alternative doesn't have a similar squeeze waiting.
• Where your data lives. Some tab managers are cloud-only; if the service has an outage (or shuts down), your collections go with it. Offline-capable tools keep working.
• Scope. Tab managers increasingly bundle notes and tasks. If you're going to give a tool your new tab, it may as well replace a couple of other apps too.

1. Hintword — free, unlimited, with notes and tasks built in

Hintword takes over your new tab like Toby does, but goes further on three fronts:

• Unlimited collections and tabs, free. No saved-tab cap. Save your whole browser, organize it into collapsible collections (Work, Research, whatever), and drag tabs between them.
• A live Open Tabs panel. See everything currently open in your browser and drag any tab straight into a collection — no copy-pasting URLs.
• Notes and tasks are first-class. A rich-text editor with AI assistance (rephrase, fix grammar, change tone, summarize), plus a drag-and-drop Kanban board with subtasks and notes linked to tasks. Toby's built-in "Next" list is a light to-do for tabs; Hintword ships an actual board.
• Offline-first. Everything is saved to your device instantly and keeps working with zero connection. You sync when you choose, and a sync history shows exactly what was pushed and pulled.

Best for: people who want Toby's visual new-tab organization without the tab cap — and would happily fold their notes app and task board into the same tool.

2. Workona — the heavyweight for work-session management

Workona organizes tabs into workspaces — a model aimed at people juggling many projects at once. It's the most feature-rich tool in the category and also bundles built-in notes and tasks (list-style, with assignments and due dates), pitched at team workflows.

Trade-offs: it's a heavier setup than a visual new-tab board, and its free tier has limits on workspaces — check Workona's current pricing page for the details, as they've changed over time.

Best for: heavy multi-project work, especially in teams.

3. OneTab — the minimalist purge button

OneTab does one thing: collapses all your open tabs into a single list page to free up memory. There are no collections to speak of, no sync across devices, no notes. As a "declutter right now" button it's unbeatable in simplicity; as an organizational system it isn't one.

Best for: one-click decluttering with zero learning curve — not for building an organized library of resources.

4. Session Buddy — session snapshots and recovery

Session Buddy focuses on saving and restoring entire browser sessions, which makes it a good safety net for crash recovery and "I need to close everything but come back to this later." Managing curated, long-lived collections is possible but less pleasant than in new-tab tools like Toby or Hintword.

Best for: session snapshots and recovery, rather than day-to-day curation.

Quick comparison

Competitor details verified July 2026 — pricing and limits change, so double-check vendors' own pages.

The bottom line

If Toby's 60-tab cap is what sent you searching, the practical question is: do you want just tab management, or your tabs, notes, and tasks in one place?

• Just tabs, minimal: OneTab.
• Team workspaces: Workona.
• Toby's visual style, no cap, plus notes and a real task board — free: Hintword.