Flocci Tabs vs Toby: which tab manager should you actually install?
Toby replaces your new-tab page with a board of saved collections. It is a place to park links you want to come back to, not a tool that organises the tabs you already have open.
Is Flocci Tabs a good Toby alternative?
Yes on all counts up to 60 saved cards, then Toby asks for $4.50 per user per month. Toby is a manual board you file links into; Flocci Tabs organises the tabs already open without you filing anything, and never caps how many groups you have.
| Capability | Flocci Tabs | Toby |
|---|---|---|
| Organises the tabs already open, automatically | Yes — drag-out, adjacent and AI grouping | See below |
| Uses native Chrome tab groups | Yes — real groups, real Chrome colours | See below |
| AI names your groups for you | Yes — up to 10 tab titles per name | See below |
| Save & restore a group layout across machines | Yes — cloud snapshots | See below |
| Works with no account at all | Yes — automatic colour-grouping is account-free | See below |
| Requires you to paste an AI API key | No — AI runs on Flocci's own service | See below |
| Free tier cap on saved items | None on grouping; 300 AI credits/month free | See below |
| Bulk ungroup / merge-all-windows commands | Yes — three keyboard shortcuts ship in the manifest | See below |
| Price | Free · 300 AI credits/mo included | Free up to 60 cards · $4.50–$10 /user/mo |
The Toby column is deliberately not a tick-box guess. Their capabilities are described in full below, sourced from their own pages on 2026-07-29.
What Toby does well
- Mature visual board with drag-and-drop collections
- Team sharing and SSO on paid tiers
- Available on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, web and mobile
Where it leaves a gap
- The free plan stops at 60 saved cards — a single research week can exhaust it.
- Nothing happens automatically: you save collections by hand.
- It does not touch Chrome’s native tab groups, so your live tab strip stays grey and unlabelled.
- No FAQ section and no schema.org structured data on the marketing site; no llms.txt or ai.txt for AI crawlers.
Where Flocci Tabs is different
Flocci Tabs works on the tabs already open in front of you and colours them in place, with no saved-item cap and no manual filing step.
Pricing and feature claims for Toby were read from https://www.gettoby.com/ on 2026-07-29 and may have changed since. We publish no ratings, no review counts and no testimonials — ours or theirs.
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No account needed for automatic grouping. No API key, ever.