Karakeep

Karakeep is an open-source “bookmark everything” app for saving links, notes, images, and archived pages. It automatically fetches metadata, applies AI tagging and summarization, and supports lists, full-text and semantic search, highlights, OCR, offline reading, browser extensions, mobile apps, RSS ingestion, REST API, webhooks, imports, and self-hosting. Users can run it in the cloud or on their own infrastructure.

✨ Key Features

• Save links, notes, and images — Keep varied content in one bookmark workspace.
• Fetch page metadata — Automatically retrieve titles, descriptions, and images.
• Tag and summarize with AI — Organize saved material with LLM-based assistance.
• Search semantically and by text — Rediscover content through full-text and semantic search.
• Organize with lists — Group bookmarks and collaborate on shared lists.
• Archive pages and videos — Preserve full pages and supported video content against link rot.
• Read offline on mobile — Access saved material through mobile apps and offline reading.
• Use browser extensions — Bookmark quickly from Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
• Import existing bookmarks — Bring content from Chrome, Pocket, Linkwarden, Omnivore, and other sources.
• Automate with API and webhooks — Connect Karakeep to scripts and external workflows.
• Use OCR and highlights — Extract text from images and save important passages.
• Self-host for control — Run the open-source app with Docker and retain infrastructure control.

💳 Pricing

• Free cloud — $0; 10 bookmarks, 20 MB storage, web/mobile apps, and browser extensions.
• Pro — $4/month or $40/year; 50,000 bookmarks, 50 GB storage, AI tagging, full-text search, apps, and extensions.
• Self-Hosted — Free forever; unlimited bookmarks and storage, all features, data control, apps, extensions, and community support.
• Team / Corporate — Custom per-seat pricing; managed deployment, custom domain, SSO, user management, and priority support.

Paid plans include a 7-day money-back guarantee. Cloud cancellation retains data for 30 days; self-hosting requires the operator to provide infrastructure; hosting and selected AI model providers can incur separate costs.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Saving research links for later retrieval.
• Automatically tagging a large bookmark collection.
• Searching saved pages by meaning rather than exact words.
• Archiving important pages before links change.
• Collecting articles, notes, and images in project lists.
• Reading saved material offline on mobile.
• Importing bookmarks from another service.
• Sending new links into a collection through API or webhooks.
• Extracting text from image-based references with OCR.
• Running a private bookmark service on self-managed infrastructure.