A Toby alternative for keyboard people
Toby wants you to curate collections. UtilEngine wants you to keep working: save the whole window as a session, restore it anywhere with a few keystrokes.
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Toby is a visual bookmarking board. UtilEngine is a launcher with sessions built in.
| Toby | 
UtilEngine
| |
|---|---|---|
| Sync across devices | Yes, through your Toby account | Yes, sessions follow your account |
| Automatic snapshots | Not advertised | Hourly snapshots of all windows, kept 14 days |
| Command palette launcher | No | Yes, on any page |
| Built-in utilities | No | 50+ commands: calculator, JSON, text, images |
| AI | AI tab naming and grouping, on paid plans | Full AI chat and commands, 62 models, your own key |
| Team sharing | Yes, shared collections | No, built for individuals |
| Model | Visual collections on a new-tab page | A launcher. Save windows as sessions, restore anywhere |
| Price | Free up to 60 saved tabs, then from $4.50/member/month billed yearly | $49 one-time |
Comparison based on the Toby site, pricing page, and Chrome Web Store listing as of July 2026. If you like seeing your links as visual boards or share collections with a team, Toby is a good fit for that.
Why people switch
Toby rewards gardeners. You drag tabs into collections, name them, keep the board tidy, and the payoff is a pretty new-tab page of everything you saved. Plenty of people love working that way. The ones who leave usually say the same thing: they stopped tending the board, and the free plan's 60-tab cap arrived faster than expected.
UtilEngine skips the garden. A session is just the window you already have, saved as it stands: every tab, in order, up to 20 windows and 200 tabs. You never drag a card or name an individual link. And because snapshots run every hour on their own, even the windows you never saved can come back.
You also get the rest of the launcher. Tab search, a calculator, JSON and text tools, and AI chat with your own key, all behind the same shortcut. Toby is one job done visually. UtilEngine is fifty jobs done from the keyboard.
How sessions work in UtilEngine
No boards to tend. Save the window, or let hourly snapshots do it for you.
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How is UtilEngine different from Toby?
Toby is a visual home for links you curate: drag tabs into collections, see them as cards on your new-tab page. UtilEngine is keyboard-first: save a window as a session, restore it by typing a few letters. Curation versus recall.
Toby has a free plan. Why pay $49?
Toby's free plan caps at 60 saved tabs, and its paid plans are subscriptions. UtilEngine is $49 once, with sessions that hold up to 200 tabs across 20 windows, hourly snapshots, and 50+ other commands included. And it comes with a 14-day refund, no questions asked.
Does UtilEngine have AI like Toby AI?
A different kind. Toby AI names and groups your tabs on paid plans. UtilEngine gives you full AI chat and page commands with 62 models through your own API key, at provider prices.
Can I share sessions with my team?
No. UtilEngine is built for individuals. If shared collections are the point for you, Toby does that well.
Does UtilEngine take over my new-tab page?
No. It stays invisible until you press your shortcut (Alt+Z by default). No new-tab takeover, no dashboard to maintain.
Save the window, skip the board
Sessions, snapshots, and 50+ commands behind one keystroke. One payment, yours forever.
Get it for $49One-time payment. 14-day refund, no questions asked.
