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OneTab vs Toast

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When comparing OneTab vs Toast, the Slant community recommends OneTab for most people. In the question“What are the best tab managers for Chrome?” OneTab is ranked 5th while Toast is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose OneTab is:

It takes all of your tabs (choose between all/all-except-current/current/all-to-right/all-to-left) and turns them into links in a special OneTab tab where you can further manage your tabs by dividing them into groups, removing duplicates and securing them so that they can't be removed unless unsecured.

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PlatformsChrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Brave

SynchronisationAvailable

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Pros

Pro
Overall very useful

Pro
You can organize links by dragging and dropping them

You can drag and drop links/tabs to reorder them by relevance, or to move them from one list to another.

Pro
Non-invasive

The OneTab dashboard only appears the first time you open your browser after quitting, although you can also make it appear through the extension button in the extensions bar. This is less invasive behavior than the Chrome extensions that appear every time you open a new browser tab.

Pro
Provides just enough information

OneTab provides just the right amount of meta-info about the tabs you've saved. It groups them by session, and tells you how many tabs are in each session, as well as the date the session was created. Every saved tab includes the bookmarked favicon and page title.

Pro
Management & sharing of saved sessions

OneTab makes it very easy to restore, delete, share, lock, rename, and favorite your saved tab sessions. OneTab also makes it easy to share, export and import URLs into your OneTab dashboard as a whole.

Pro
It's new

Seems to be created only in 2019.

Pro
Super lightweight

It lives in a tiny popup in top right corner and doesn't take your Chrome home screen or even opens a new tab. It's just a small piece, almost like a native menu.

Pro
Is also available for Safari

Safari lacks an extensions, but these guys did a Toast for that.

Pro
Nice looking

Pro
Easy to use

Pro
Available for different browsers

Like: safari, chrome, opera and firefox with sync between them

Pro
Available for different browsers

Like: safari, chrome, opera and firefox with sync between them

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Cons

Con
Can get messy

The OneTab tab has everything in a list format with just simple headings describing what you have in this or that list. It isn't comfortable to manage it when you have quite a lot of tabs in there.

Con
Slightly confusing UX

It's easy to forget that clicking on the OneTab button in the extensions bar doesn't show you options – it saves your current session by closing all your tabs in the given browser window. That might be slightly annoying if you were trying to access the OneTab dashboard or view OneTab options instead of trying to save your current session in OneTab, but this is only a minor inconvenience given how easy it is to restore your session.

Con
Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

This is not so much a con as much as it is a heads up for those who use OneTab as a form of transient digital bookmarking (like me!). When you click on a tab/link in any given OneTab session, that will cause it to disappear from the list of tabs in that section. It would be nice if there was an interim period or separate place where the link is still visible/accessible. That or it would be nice to have a version history of past closed tabs/links and sessions.

Con
Data loss

When you run ccleaner or CleanMyMac, all OneTab data may vanish.

Con
Not updating sessions realtime

Con
No extra deep tab management

If you a person who likes to customize everything, edit things back and forth, probably Toast is not for you. As it was recently launched, it has at the moment only the most needed features.