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Karakeep

Save links, notes, and images, and let AI tag them for later search

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What it is

Karakeep is a bookmark and read-later app for links, notes, and images. It is for collectors who save a lot and want to find it again. It can tag items automatically with a local or hosted model, and keeps full-page archives so links stay readable.

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Stars
29,842 GitHub stars.
29,842

Forks
1,587
Commits
2,345
Contributors
195
Language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
February 2024
First release
February 2024
Platforms
web, iOS, Android, CLI, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Raindrop.io, Mymind
Tags
  • semantic-search
  • web-archiving
  • ocr
  • bookmarks
  • rss
  • collaboration

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Bluesky“Messing with self-hosted Pocket alternatives Shiori - Readeck - readeck.org Karakeep - karakeep.app”May 27, 2025 · 23 likes · 5 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Latest nerd project: Deploying a self-hosted version of Karakeep on my home server and connecting it to a local LMM for auto tagging. karakeep.app”Dec 11, 2025 · 12 likes · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I set up karakeep on my server last week and it's great. karakeep.app”Mar 19, 2026 · 8 likes · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsKarakeep Release 0.33.1Aug 1, 2026 · 6 points · 3 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsKarakeep: The Bookmark Everything AppMay 11, 2025 · 4 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Neat, Karakeep (ex Hoarder) is approaching 20K ⭐️ on GitHub.”Aug 17, 2025 · 4 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“RE: If anyone's looking for recommendations, I've been really enjoying running the self-hosted version of It comes with a free Android app and a browser…”Nov 14, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“which makes me feel like I might want karakeep.app instead... (although I feel like the UI isn't as good? for example, when I look at their demo, the compact…”Jul 25, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsKarakeep – self-hostable bookmark-everything appMay 14, 2026 · 2 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Public or private data? & if private how private? As in I have questions about something I use but I still use it because I can automatically back it up as a…”Feb 10, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“It's been a month since I started self-hosting karakeep.app, a read-it-later application that helps organizing my reading list. It has nested lists, a good…”Oct 5, 2025 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“We've been discussing this a lot on Mastodon, which leans to self-hosted solutions: wallabag.it Some have paid already-hosted solutions.”May 30, 2025 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“🔖 FOSS Highlight: Karakeep Save links, notes, images and PDFs in one self-hosted library. Full-text search, page archiving and optional local-AI tagging help…”Sep 14, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Free Software Friday! Storing and managing interesting articles can be a hassle. Browser bookmarks are helpful, but they only provide a headline to identify…”Jun 6, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“@flisty.bsky.social A quick search suggests Raindrop.io (Freemium) Linkwarden (Paid) Shiori (self-hosted) Karakeep (self-hosted) Instapaper […]”May 23, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Karakeep's real idea is capture. Fetch metadata, OCR images and PDFs, archive pages, pull RSS, import old saves, sync browsers, then search the result. AI…”Oct 14, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“| Karakeep - The Bookmark Everything App | Save, Organize & Tag with AI karakeep.app”May 30, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“testing a different words-hoarding app tonight, karakeep.app. quite good so far. - there's an AI off switch (truly believe that apps that don't do this are…”May 26, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Karakeep is damn nice for saving websites with auto Ai tagging and description Imported all my old delicious, diigo, rainbow, pocket etc links and now have a…”Feb 14, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I've just contributed to Karakeep/ Ex Hoarder Consider supporting them too — every little helps!”Nov 5, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)