// UNIHODL vs TOBY
Toby organizes your tabs. UNIHODL resumes your work.
Toby is a beautiful board where you file tabs into project collections by hand. UNIHODL captures your state — scroll position, video timestamp, the paragraph you were reading — and drops you back mid-thought in one click. Different jobs; plenty of people run both.
Install UNIHODL Free →Where Toby is genuinely good.
We’re not going to pretend otherwise.
- A genuinely lovely visual board on your new tab page — drag-and-drop tab collections by project.
- Team spaces: share curated collections with coworkers.
- Mature, popular, and easy to learn.
- Generous free tier.
Where UNIHODL wins.
It saves the state, not just the link
Toby files a URL into a collection. UNIHODL captures pixel-precise scroll position, second-accurate video timestamps, and the exact text you were near — so you reopen mid-paragraph, not at the top.
Auto-capture when you get interrupted
Toby is manual filing — you have to remember to organize. UNIHODL's Interrupt Shield saves your session automatically when your screen locks, the window loses focus, or you switch away.
On-device AI labels every session
UNIHODL auto-tags each save ('Vendor research', 'Q3 planning') using Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano — on-device, nothing leaves your machine. Toby collections are named and sorted by hand.
One-click resume vs. rebuilding a board
Press Ctrl+Shift+H to hold; one click to restore the whole session exactly. No board to maintain, no collection to keep tidy.
Local-first, no account to start
UNIHODL works fully on-device the moment you install — no sign-up wall. Sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted.
Feature matrix
| Feature | UNIHODL | Toby |
|---|---|---|
| Organize tabs into collections | Yes (sessions + groups) | Yes (visual boards) |
| Visual new-tab dashboard | — | Yes |
| Scroll position | Pixel-precise | — |
| Video timestamp | Second-accurate | — |
| Selected text / reading anchor | Yes | — |
| Auto-capture on interrupt | Yes | — |
| On-device AI tags | Yes (Gemini Nano) | — |
| Instant full-text search | Yes | Limited |
| Shared boards / collections | Shared Canvas boards | Team spaces |
| Cross-device sync (E2E) | Yes (Pro) | Account sync |
| Resume Token API for AI agents | Yes | — |
| Free tier | Unlimited saves · 7-day history | Generous |
| Lifetime deal | $149 (first 500) | — |
Pick UNIHODL if
- → You want to resume exactly where you were — scroll, video, the paragraph — not just reopen a link.
- → You get interrupted constantly and want your work saved automatically, not filed by hand.
- → You want AI to label your sessions for you — no manual naming.
- → You want a local-first tool that starts working with no account.
Stick with Toby if
- → You want a visual, drag-and-drop board of tab collections on your new tab page.
- → Your main job is curating tabs by long-running project, not resuming mid-task.
- → Your team lives inside shared, hand-organized tab collections.
No credit card. Works alongside Toby — you can run both. See what UNIHODL actually does →