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11 self-hosted Toby for Tabs alternatives

Toby for Tabs is a browser extension and web app that organizes browser tabs into collections and workspaces, saves and restores sessions, syncs tab sets across devices, and manages/shareable tab collections.

Alternatives to Toby for Tabs

Homer is a lightweight static homepage dashboard configured via YAML to organize and quickly access self-hosted services, with search, theming, and PWA support.

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11.6k stars921 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Heimdall is a self-hosted application dashboard and startpage to organize and launch your web apps, services, and bookmarks, with optional live stats via enhanced app integrations.

Heimdall screenshot

9.3k stars621 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

LinkAce is a self-hosted bookmark archive to save, organize, monitor, and share web links with tags, lists, search, RSS feeds, and a REST API.

LinkAce screenshot

3.3k stars205 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source, self-hosted bookmarking app with tags, import/export, full-text search, REST API, OAuth and browser extension support.

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1.2k stars49 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Fenrus is a self-hosted personal startpage dashboard that organizes your apps and links into groups, supports multiple users, and can show rich status data for “smart” apps.

786 stars46 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Dashwise is a self-hosted homelab dashboard built with Next.js and PocketBase. It offers GUI-managed links, modular widgets, link uptime checks, spotlight search and OIDC SSO.

445 stars22 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Simple self-hosted bookmark service with React frontend, Fastify backend and SQLite. Docker-ready and optimized for low-resource devices like Raspberry Pi.

410 stars24 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

TraLa auto-discovers Traefik HTTP routers and presents services in a responsive, iconified dashboard with grouping, search, manual entries, and YAML/config overrides.

284 stars8 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Lightweight Go API that returns embeddable HTML iFrames for many self-hosted services (e.g., Linkwarden, Vikunja), with Docker and Swagger support.

118 stars2 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted landing/start page that renders bookmarks from a plaintext file with visual editor, search, Git-backed history, and multiple auth providers.

19 stars0 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted bookmark hub and backend for the SyncMarks browser extension, enabling cross-browser bookmark syncing plus a standalone web interface to manage bookmarks.

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What replacing Toby for Tabs actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 10 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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