Karakeep

What is Karakeep?

Karakeep is an open source, self-hostable “bookmark everything” app. It saves links, notes, images, and PDFs, automatically pulls the title, description, and preview image from each link, and archives the full page so your saved content survives even when the original goes offline. AI does the filing — it tags and summarizes each item for you. It was previously called Hoarder.

What is Karakeep best for?

Data hoarders and self-hosters who want a private read-it-later and reference library they own outright. It fits people who save a lot — articles, screenshots, PDFs, RSS items — and want AI to organize the pile automatically instead of manually tagging every link, without shipping their reading history to a hosted service.

What can Karakeep do?

• Save links, plain notes, images, videos, and PDFs from web, mobile, or browser extension
• Archive full pages so bookmarks don’t rot when the source disappears
• Auto-tag and summarize content with an LLM — via any OpenAI-compatible API or a local Ollama model
• Full-text and semantic search across everything, plus OCR to find text inside images and screenshots
• Auto-hoard new items from RSS feeds and apply custom rule-based automation
• Import existing bookmarks from Pocket, Chrome, Linkwarden, Omnivore, and Tab Session Manager
• Reach your library from native iOS and Android apps, Chrome/Firefox/Safari extensions, a REST API, and a CLI

Where does Karakeep fall short?

• It’s still pre-1.0 and moving fast, so expect the occasional breaking change and rough edge that a mature product like Raindrop.io wouldn’t have.
• The best AI tagging leans on a paid OpenAI-compatible API; the free local-Ollama route needs a capable machine to give comparable results, so “free AI” has a hardware cost.
• Full-page archiving and OCR of everything you save grow storage quickly — a heavy library needs real disk, not a tiny VPS.

Is Karakeep free?

Yes — self-hosting Karakeep is free and unlimited, with every feature included; you only pay for your own server. Karakeep Cloud is the paid managed option: a free tier capped at 10 bookmarks and 20MB, and a Pro plan at $4/month (or $40/year) for 50,000 bookmarks, 50GB storage, and AI tagging. Custom per-seat corporate plans add SSO and priority support.

What does Karakeep replace?

Karakeep is a self-hosted alternative to Pocket, Raindrop.io, Instapaper, and the web-clipping side of Evernote. It covers the same save-read-organize job — read-it-later articles, clipped pages, tagged references — but runs on your own infrastructure with AI tagging built in, and it can import directly from Pocket to help you move.

FAQ

Is Karakeep open source? Yes. Karakeep is licensed under AGPL-3.0, and the full source is on GitHub. Self-hosting gives you every feature with no paywalled tiers.

Can I self-host Karakeep for free? Yes. The self-hosted edition is free and unlimited — you run it with Docker and pay only for the server and storage it uses. Karakeep Cloud is the optional paid, managed version.

Is Karakeep a good Pocket alternative? For technical users, yes — especially after Mozilla shut Pocket down in 2025. It does read-it-later plus full-page archiving and AI tagging, imports your Pocket export directly, and keeps everything on hardware you control.

What do I need to run Karakeep? A server with Docker. For AI tagging you add either an OpenAI-compatible API key or a local Ollama model; search uses a bundled Meilisearch index. Storage scales with how much you archive.