OneTab vs Toby vs Workona vs Amazing Tabs: An Honest Comparison (2026)

Four tools keep coming up whenever "too many open tabs" turns into an actual search. They solve different problems, so "which is best" is the wrong question — here's who each one is really for, honestly, including where the others beat us.

The 30-second version

	Free tier	Paid	Best for	The catch
OneTab	Unlimited	—	One-click "collapse everything to a list"	Search/folders added in v2 (Mar 2026), but sync is still "coming soon"
Toby	60 saved tabs	$4.50/mo ($54/yr) Pro	Visual boards of saved tabs	Free tier is tight; has a / search shortcut, but it opens inside Toby's own dashboard, not from anywhere in the browser
Workona	Limited workspaces	$7/mo ($84/yr) Pro	Heavy multi-project workspace switching	Powerful but heavy; overkill if you just want your tabs back
Amazing Tabs	100 saved links	from $2.90/mo, or $99 lifetime	Fast save + Spotlight-style search, local-first	Newer; smaller install base than OneTab

OneTab — the minimalist's panic button

OneTab does one thing: click it and every open tab collapses into a single list, freeing memory. It's free, unlimited, and beloved for a reason. Its v2 update (March 2026) added a search bar and folders on that list page, closing some of the organization gap.

Where it still stops: the new search bar only works once you're on OneTab's own list page — its older address-bar keyword (11 + query) does work from any tab, but it's a bare two-digit code, not a mnemonic shortcut — and cross-device sync is listed as "coming soon," not live yet. If your problem is "Chrome is eating my RAM right now," OneTab is perfect. If your problem is "I need to find a tab I saved last Tuesday, from a different laptop," it still isn't fully built for that. See our full OneTab vs Amazing Tabs breakdown for the head-to-head.

Toby — the visual board

Toby gives you a pretty grid of saved tabs grouped into collections, with a new-tab dashboard. It's nice to look at and good for curated sets of links you return to.

Where it stops: the free tier caps you at 60 saved tabs, and Pro runs $4.50/mo billed yearly ($54/yr), or $6/mo monthly. It's a dashboard-first tool — Toby does have its own / search shortcut for finding a saved tab, but it lives inside Toby's board, and building the collections themselves is still drag-and-drop. Great if you like organizing visually, less great if you want to save fast and search from anywhere. See our Toby alternative guide for more on that trade-off.

Workona — the power user's workspace OS

Workona is the heavyweight: full project workspaces, tab suspending, deep session management. If you run many parallel projects and live in your browser all day, it's genuinely powerful.

Where it stops: the free tier is limited to a handful of workspaces, Pro is about $7/mo (~$84/yr), and there's a real learning curve. For a lot of people it's more machine than the job needs. See our Workona alternative guide for the full comparison.

Amazing Tabs — fast save, instant search, local-first

Full disclosure: this is our blog, so weigh accordingly — but here's the honest pitch. Amazing Tabs is built around two moments: saving a tab in one click, and finding it in one second with a search that feels like Spotlight. Drop a tab into a Chrome tab group and it auto-files to the matching collection. Your saved tabs stay on your device by default — we don't read your history or the URLs you save.

Where it stops: we're newer, so our install base is smaller than OneTab's, and cloud sync is a Premium feature. The free tier is 100 saved links — enough to genuinely live in before you ever see a paywall.

Pricing: free up to 100 links; Premium from $2.90/mo billed annually ($34.80/yr) or $4.90/mo month-to-month; or a one-time $99 lifetime deal, capped at 200 founder spots.

So which one?

• You just want to free RAM with one click → OneTab.
• You want a pretty visual board of curated links → Toby.
• You run many parallel projects and want a workspace OS → Workona.
• You want to save fast, search fast, and keep your data local → Amazing Tabs.

Try the searchable version. Add Amazing Tabs to Chrome — free, no signup for the first 100 saved links. See the full breakdown on pricing, including the $99 lifetime deal.

Prices and limits reflect our review of each vendor's published pricing as of this writing; vendors change plans, so confirm on each site before you buy.