Reviews for Toby For Tabs
Toby For Tabs by Toby
Review by Dana Todd
Rated 5 out of 5
by Dana Todd, 2 years agoI've never written a review for an extension before but I have to say I'm a raving fan of Toby. To be fair, I've never used another tab manager before but honestly I love this thing and use it all the time. My primary need was to be able to quickly clear all tabs so I can record a zoom call without system lag, and this lets me accomplish it in a flash, and then restore all my work after. It's just so easy to use, and now I'm syncing across Firefox and Chrome both so that's even better. Great work, devs!
67 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Anto, 16 days agoI do not recommend this app at all, my account was deleted with all bookmarks, and now they want to take payment from November 12, 2024. It's absurd to destroy your data that you want to save and still want money for it. Better save it in folders in the browser with something like (Bookmark Tabs)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lugh, a month agoThe Toby team have become increasingly greedy and are now pay-walling the core feature of the app: Saving tabs. You will only be able to save 60 tabs without a subscription. Literal killobytes of data. What a joke.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Maxwell, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12851851, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18514632, 4 months agoAs of recent update, now the new tab window always flashes with sign-in view before loading the actual app (logged-in view). It's especially infuriating, since before it was working fine, signed-in view would show up immediately. Also, I have my theme set to dark, but non-logged-in view flashes in light them, so it's even more distracting.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bogema, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by terran5992, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by KuryArt, 8 months agoSimple yet very powerful and useful extension. It helps me organizing my browsing experience, saving tabs in collections to be easily opened in a later moment. Love Toby!
- Rated 1 out of 5by agoldenlife, 8 months agoCan't even really get a feel for it. After installing I created an account. Thought I would try the free and see how I like it. Right after creating the account you are prompted for a credit card to trial their Pro plan. Immediately hit with an upsell is a large red alert. I don't even know what the toby portal looks like, as there isno way around the upsell. I am not going to give any company a card right away. That is a scam, they know they will get people for a least a one time charge before cancelling. So the only thing you can do in the "free" version is the very limited options in the addon for Firefox with no explanation. Doesn't look anything like the screenshots they show on their website. I had an option to mark a tab as next or add it to a collection. That's it. My recommendation would be to avoid. They also don't keep your data private (it is unencrypted on their side). They have access to everything you send them through the sync and can and likely will use it for their profit. Edge does all this can do for free. Was hoping I had a good firefox alternative finally, but nope.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17870901, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eling, a year agoI have been using this for a few years to manage my tabs "problem" (upwards of 100+ at a time), and it's been really helpful.
Toby saves me from impulsively opening multiple tabs in quick succession because I can store them into a specific "Collection" and close the tab for later. The Collection feature offers a neat visual categorization for easy skim. Its downside is it becomes a bit laggy if hundreds of tabs are saved in a single Collection. (I hope they can improve on this!)
Toby's sync feature also helps put my mind at ease if my laptop or browser suddenly shuts down (it happens sometimes.) Recently, it helped me migrate from Chrome to Firefox in just a few minutes. - Rated 2 out of 5by Cobra, a year agoToby itself is a great product, but this Firefox extension is *definitely* not.
Toby has 2 different extensions available for Chrome, both of which are orders of magnitude better than the Firefox one. I preferred using Toby Mini on Chrome, as I use a different new tab extension — something that Toby For Tabs on Firefox changes EVERY SINGLE TIME it updates, which is beyond annoying. This extension tries to emulate bits and pieces of both Chrome extensions and fails miserably at it.
Furthermore, Toby For Tabs sometimes doesn't identify tabs properly, especially when one has a title change for whatever reason, another problem that the Chrome extensions never had.
All in all, it is a far worse experience to use Toby on Firefox than it is on Chrome. - Rated 5 out of 5by FedeFofo, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by antt, a year agoI use this add-on as guest, save all the tabs to Toby. Toby closes all the tabs and shows a blank page on Firefox instead. Now all the tabs are gone and no way to get them back. How to use this add-on if it shows me nothing. My FF version is 117.0.1
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abhi, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frostbyte, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Angry Fox, a year agoНе очень удобно использовать за отсуствием функционала для стартовой страницы. Нельзя взаимодействовать с закладками, чтобы их быстро открыть и в удобном виде отобразить. Нельзя автоматически сохранять сессии, чтобы не потерять вкладки.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ionik, 2 years agoI don't like the behaviour of the extension taking over my new tab. The link in settings for "Toby Mini" leads to the chrome store and there is no way to turn it off. I tried manually through Firefox and it turned itself back on - annoying. Otherwise, seems like a solid app but I won't be using it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dmytro, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17726640, 2 years agoBeen using Toby for the last few years on Chrome. It now being available on Firefox is the only reason I'm even contemplating moving away from Chrome. It makes such a difference to my visual (and mental!) organisation. Don't want to work without it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Simon, 2 years agoAt least it asks beforehand, if I am fine with them analysing my bookmarks. No, I am not. It's 2022, please en-/decrypt my data client side and don't use it for your profit.
Rather ask me for a one-time fee for a pro version, not a subscription. I would pay and others as well, probably.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi Simon, thanks for your feedback. Although we don't currently have client-side encryption, we do have encryption in transit and at rest.
I would also like to highlight that we don't analyze our users' bookmarks and we don't share bookmarks with third-party services either.
Feel free to reach out to hello@gettoby.com if you have additional questions.
Best – Pierre.