{"slug": "karakeep", "name": "Karakeep", "category": "selfhosted", "category_name": "Self-hosted and home server", "description": "Self-hosted, open-source bookmark manager that archives pages with AI tagging and full-text search.", "recommenders": 9, "commenters": 15, "warners": 0, "score": 10.123, "rising": 3.04, "first": "2025-12-05", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "Recommended as a self-hosted, open-source place to keep bookmarks that saves page archives with AI-generated tags and summaries and makes old links easy to search again.Complaints are rare and scattered: one user found they almost never went back to saved links, and others moved to linkding or found Hister a better fit for browsing-history use.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 15, "neutral": 6, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0, 4], "listed": true, "loved": ["Self-hosted, open source", "Automatic archiving"], "caveat": "Rarely revisited", "short_quote": "when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep", "official_url": "https://karakeep.app/", "pricing": "open source", "aliases": ["Karakeep"], "verdict": [{"text": "Recommended as a self-hosted, open-source place to keep bookmarks", "cites": [{"id": 802892896, "item_id": 50180806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180806", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source", "excerpt": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep ~30k Github stars", "context": "", "use_case": "AI bookmark manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Linkit \u2013 AI bookmark manager, 100% free and open source"}, {"id": 754174400, "item_id": 47135900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135900", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary", "excerpt": "I used to keep everything in Obsidian, but I recently switched to keeping notes in Obsidian and links and articles in Karakeep (self-hosted). https://karakeep.app/ One of many things that I like about Karakeep is that when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary for the link. Basically it automatically categorizes everything that you save.", "context": "self-hosts it", "use_case": "saving links and articles", "switched_from": "Obsidian", "story": "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"}, {"id": 752275216, "item_id": 47017201, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017201", "by": "mbreese", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep).", "excerpt": "This looks like a nice project! I always have a love hate relationship with bookmarks. I tend to treat bookmarks as a write once read never datastore. I have a set of 2-3 bookmarklets that I use often, but almost never use other bookmarks. I do keep an archive of pages or links I find interesting, but I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep). So, I\u2019m legitimately curious \u2014 for the author or others \u2014", "context": "", "use_case": "archiving interesting links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Arcmark \u2013 macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar"}]}, {"text": " that saves page archives with AI-generated tags and summaries", "cites": [{"id": 759979360, "item_id": 47498710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498710", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It has made my bookmarks so much more useful than just having a title and a URL", "excerpt": "I used to be a bookmarks hoarder. I would create folders for the bookmarks and organize them by category and activity, but about a year or two ago I set up an instance of Karakeep and I have honestly not looked at my Firefox bookmarks once since I did that. that. Whenever I want to save something I just save it to Karakeep which automatically tags it, pulls down an archive of it and also generates a preview of the pa", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark saving and archiving", "switched_from": "Firefox bookmarks", "story": "Firefox Adds Tab Notes"}, {"id": 754174400, "item_id": 47135900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135900", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary", "excerpt": "I used to keep everything in Obsidian, but I recently switched to keeping notes in Obsidian and links and articles in Karakeep (self-hosted). https://karakeep.app/ One of many things that I like about Karakeep is that when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary for the link. Basically it automatically categorizes everything that you save.", "context": "self-hosts it", "use_case": "saving links and articles", "switched_from": "Obsidian", "story": "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"}]}, {"text": " and makes old links easy to search again.", "cites": [{"id": 786253680, "item_id": 49140855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140855", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items.", "excerpt": "Last year I migrated all my Firefox bookmarks (~ 1000 total) into Karakeep using their API and then deleted every bookmark except the top 10 sites that I visit most regularly. I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items. Their API is easy to use and I have a rofi script that I use to quickly open up saved pages in my browser with about 4 ", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management and search", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1"}, {"id": 759979360, "item_id": 47498710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498710", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It has made my bookmarks so much more useful than just having a title and a URL", "excerpt": "I used to be a bookmarks hoarder. I would create folders for the bookmarks and organize them by category and activity, but about a year or two ago I set up an instance of Karakeep and I have honestly not looked at my Firefox bookmarks once since I did that. that. Whenever I want to save something I just save it to Karakeep which automatically tags it, pulls down an archive of it and also generates a preview of the pa", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark saving and archiving", "switched_from": "Firefox bookmarks", "story": "Firefox Adds Tab Notes"}]}, {"text": "Complaints are rare and scattered: one user found they almost never went back to saved links,", "cites": [{"id": 749366160, "item_id": 46835385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835385", "by": "kyriakos", "date": "2026-01-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting.", "excerpt": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting. In a year of use I think I only went back twice to find a link I saved. That means most of the time the stuff I think I need to keep for later are useless.", "context": "", "use_case": "saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"}]}, {"text": " and others moved to linkding or found Hister a better fit for browsing-history use.", "cites": [{"id": 803961793, "item_id": 50247612, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247612", "by": "BrandoElFollito", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which I moved to after using Karakeep", "excerpt": "> I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2] ... and linkding (which I moved to after using Karakeep). https://linkding.link/", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 790550512, "item_id": 49409407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409407", "by": "evanjrowley", "date": "2026-08-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "While I love Karakeep", "excerpt": "While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go. I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking / saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister \u2013 private, self hosted search engine"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Self-hosted, open source", "summary": "Commenters run their own instance, and one points out it is open source with about 30k GitHub stars.", "quotes": [{"id": 802892896, "item_id": 50180806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180806", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source", "excerpt": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep ~30k Github stars", "context": "", "use_case": "AI bookmark manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Linkit \u2013 AI bookmark manager, 100% free and open source"}, {"id": 752275216, "item_id": 47017201, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017201", "by": "mbreese", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep).", "excerpt": "This looks like a nice project! I always have a love hate relationship with bookmarks. I tend to treat bookmarks as a write once read never datastore. I have a set of 2-3 bookmarklets that I use often, but almost never use other bookmarks. I do keep an archive of pages or links I find interesting, but I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep). So, I\u2019m legitimately curious \u2014 for the author or others \u2014", "context": "", "use_case": "archiving interesting links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Arcmark \u2013 macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar"}, {"id": 800240772, "item_id": 50015048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015048", "by": "agnishom", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Things I like to host: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Karakeep, Deluge", "excerpt": "I use such a computer to expose services from my home server. You can do this using tailscale or even rathole. (Sadly, I don't have access to the router to port forward packets to my home server directly.) Things I like to host: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Karakeep, Deluge, Tailscale (for exit nodes, among other things) Other stuff I want to host but not yet: Immich, Vaultwarden, Hister, Archibebox, CopyParty", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}]}, {"label": "Automatic archiving", "summary": "Saving a link captures a screenshot, page text and archive, then uses AI to add tags and a summary.", "quotes": [{"id": 754174400, "item_id": 47135900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135900", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary", "excerpt": "I used to keep everything in Obsidian, but I recently switched to keeping notes in Obsidian and links and articles in Karakeep (self-hosted). https://karakeep.app/ One of many things that I like about Karakeep is that when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary for the link. Basically it automatically categorizes everything that you save.", "context": "self-hosts it", "use_case": "saving links and articles", "switched_from": "Obsidian", "story": "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"}, {"id": 759979360, "item_id": 47498710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498710", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It has made my bookmarks so much more useful than just having a title and a URL", "excerpt": "I used to be a bookmarks hoarder. I would create folders for the bookmarks and organize them by category and activity, but about a year or two ago I set up an instance of Karakeep and I have honestly not looked at my Firefox bookmarks once since I did that. that. Whenever I want to save something I just save it to Karakeep which automatically tags it, pulls down an archive of it and also generates a preview of the pa", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark saving and archiving", "switched_from": "Firefox bookmarks", "story": "Firefox Adds Tab Notes"}, {"id": 791450656, "item_id": 49465666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465666", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration.", "excerpt": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration. Its extension has SingleFile built in for browser capture and costs $4/month if you don't want to host it yourself. Great work!", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Vertex, your personal archiver and annotator"}]}, {"label": "Findable bookmarks", "summary": "Users say search makes old bookmarks discoverable, so they no longer worry about losing things.", "quotes": [{"id": 786253680, "item_id": 49140855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140855", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items.", "excerpt": "Last year I migrated all my Firefox bookmarks (~ 1000 total) into Karakeep using their API and then deleted every bookmark except the top 10 sites that I visit most regularly. I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items. Their API is easy to use and I have a rofi script that I use to quickly open up saved pages in my browser with about 4 ", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management and search", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1"}, {"id": 759979360, "item_id": 47498710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498710", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It has made my bookmarks so much more useful than just having a title and a URL", "excerpt": "I used to be a bookmarks hoarder. I would create folders for the bookmarks and organize them by category and activity, but about a year or two ago I set up an instance of Karakeep and I have honestly not looked at my Firefox bookmarks once since I did that. that. Whenever I want to save something I just save it to Karakeep which automatically tags it, pulls down an archive of it and also generates a preview of the pa", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark saving and archiving", "switched_from": "Firefox bookmarks", "story": "Firefox Adds Tab Notes"}, {"id": 803861121, "item_id": 50241320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241320", "by": "elashri", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2]. It is much useful that I don't worry about losing stuff now.", "excerpt": "I'm probably in the minority but I can't stand having more than 10 tabs and I start have the urge to finish the task that I'm focused on to just close as many tabs as possible. So I really read the people talking about 100s of tabs and when I see a colleague having them, I feel that my cognitive ability to deal with that is not there. I understand that people would like to keep things and that bookmarks sucks, but I ", "context": "dislikes having many tabs", "use_case": "saving bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}]}, {"label": "Tames tab hoarding", "summary": "Commenters recommend it to people who keep hundreds of tabs open, and one no longer has 1000 tabs.", "quotes": [{"id": 756401829, "item_id": 47275114, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275114", "by": "bergheim", "date": "2026-03-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "after finding Karakeep I don't actually have 1000 tabs anymore!", "excerpt": "Strange. I have a tab hoarding problem, I often have over 1000 tabs open [1][2], and I cannot remember the last time Firefox crashed. I'm thinking it must have been years? I use ublock origin though, which might help since ads do their best to steal your computer and soul through any means possible of course. I also use a bunch of other extensions though, dark reader, vimium, sideberry... I'd expect me to be a bit mo", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking instead of open tabs", "switched_from": "", "story": "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"}, {"id": 803861121, "item_id": 50241320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241320", "by": "elashri", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2]. It is much useful that I don't worry about losing stuff now.", "excerpt": "I'm probably in the minority but I can't stand having more than 10 tabs and I start have the urge to finish the task that I'm focused on to just close as many tabs as possible. So I really read the people talking about 100s of tabs and when I see a colleague having them, I feel that my cognitive ability to deal with that is not there. I understand that people would like to keep things and that bookmarks sucks, but I ", "context": "dislikes having many tabs", "use_case": "saving bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}]}, {"label": "Works across devices", "summary": "It can be used on mobile, can share saved items, and serves saved articles to reading devices.", "quotes": [{"id": 803907201, "item_id": 50244200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244200", "by": "elashri", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep is everywhere and I save things there that I want to keep", "excerpt": "They are actually similar in the goal but I use them both for different reasons. Hister does save all of my history for desktop (not available on iOS yet) so I use it as backup to get something I wanted to see but lost. But Karakeep is everywhere and I save things there that I want to keep (it can save the actual page) and can use it on mobile ....etc (and share it too). This is at least my workflow which can be diff", "context": "", "use_case": "saving pages, mobile access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 792390352, "item_id": 49524397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524397", "by": "qlte", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "saved articles via self hosted Karakeep", "excerpt": "Boox Go 7 (B&W version) or Boox Page (discontinued) if you're willing to go Android. Both have the Oasis form factor with two physical buttons. Battery life is more like 1.5 weeks but hasn't been an issue for me at all. For me, I wanted Android after my Kindle to use the same apps I use to read books (or saved articles via self hosted Karakeep) on all my other devices.", "context": "", "use_case": "saved articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double"}]}, {"label": "Easy API", "summary": "One user imported about 1000 Firefox bookmarks through the API and built a rofi script around it.", "quotes": [{"id": 786253680, "item_id": 49140855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140855", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items.", "excerpt": "Last year I migrated all my Firefox bookmarks (~ 1000 total) into Karakeep using their API and then deleted every bookmark except the top 10 sites that I visit most regularly. I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items. Their API is easy to use and I have a rofi script that I use to quickly open up saved pages in my browser with about 4 ", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management and search", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Rarely revisited", "summary": "One user went back to find a saved link only twice in a year of use.", "quotes": [{"id": 749366160, "item_id": 46835385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835385", "by": "kyriakos", "date": "2026-01-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting.", "excerpt": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting. In a year of use I think I only went back twice to find a link I saved. That means most of the time the stuff I think I need to keep for later are useless.", "context": "", "use_case": "saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"}]}, {"label": "Alternatives preferred", "summary": "One user moved to linkding, and another thinks Hister fits history-style use better.", "quotes": [{"id": 803961793, "item_id": 50247612, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247612", "by": "BrandoElFollito", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which I moved to after using Karakeep", "excerpt": "> I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2] ... and linkding (which I moved to after using Karakeep). https://linkding.link/", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 790550512, "item_id": 49409407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409407", "by": "evanjrowley", "date": "2026-08-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "While I love Karakeep", "excerpt": "While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go. I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking / saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister \u2013 private, self hosted search engine"}]}, {"label": "Paid hosting", "summary": "If you don't host it yourself, the hosted version costs $4/month.", "quotes": [{"id": 791450656, "item_id": 49465666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465666", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration.", "excerpt": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration. Its extension has SingleFile built in for browser capture and costs $4/month if you don't want to host it yourself. Great work!", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Vertex, your personal archiver and annotator"}]}], "who": [{"by": "elashri", "context": "dislikes having many tabs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241320", "date": "2026-10-26"}, {"by": "justsomehuman", "context": "self-hosts on a Hetzner CAX31", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013881", "date": "2026-10-08"}, {"by": "toomuchtodo", "context": "paying customer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353955", "date": "2026-03-12"}, {"by": "TheKnack", "context": "self-hosts it", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135900", "date": "2026-02-24"}], "tags": ["self-hostable", "open source", "for tab hoarders", "Pocket alternative", "Firefox bookmarks replacement"], "use_cases": ["bookmarking", "bookmark management", "saving pages, mobile access", "saving bookmarks", "ai bookmark manager", "pocket replacement"], "compared": [{"slug": "hister", "name": "Hister", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "obsidian", "name": "Obsidian", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "linkding", "name": "linkding", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108", "title": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985548", "title": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138919", "title": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178218", "title": "Show HN: Linkit \u2013 AI bookmark manager, 100% free and open source", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173417", "title": "Ask HN: What did you replace pocket with?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097", "title": "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 4}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 4}}, "quotes": [{"id": 803961793, "item_id": 50247612, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247612", "by": "BrandoElFollito", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which I moved to after using Karakeep", "excerpt": "> I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2] ... and linkding (which I moved to after using Karakeep). https://linkding.link/", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 803907201, "item_id": 50244200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244200", "by": "elashri", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep is everywhere and I save things there that I want to keep", "excerpt": "They are actually similar in the goal but I use them both for different reasons. Hister does save all of my history for desktop (not available on iOS yet) so I use it as backup to get something I wanted to see but lost. But Karakeep is everywhere and I save things there that I want to keep (it can save the actual page) and can use it on mobile ....etc (and share it too). This is at least my workflow which can be diff", "context": "", "use_case": "saving pages, mobile access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 803861121, "item_id": 50241320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241320", "by": "elashri", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I would suggest for those to explore Hister [1] and Karakeep [2]. It is much useful that I don't worry about losing stuff now.", "excerpt": "I'm probably in the minority but I can't stand having more than 10 tabs and I start have the urge to finish the task that I'm focused on to just close as many tabs as possible. So I really read the people talking about 100s of tabs and when I see a colleague having them, I feel that my cognitive ability to deal with that is not there. I understand that people would like to keep things and that bookmarks sucks, but I ", "context": "dislikes having many tabs", "use_case": "saving bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs"}, {"id": 802892896, "item_id": 50180806, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180806", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source", "excerpt": "Karakeep already does what this is trying to do and it is open source https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep ~30k Github stars", "context": "", "use_case": "AI bookmark manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Linkit \u2013 AI bookmark manager, 100% free and open source"}, {"id": 802778064, "item_id": 50173629, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173629", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Karakeep", "excerpt": "Karakeep https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep", "context": "", "use_case": "Pocket replacement", "switched_from": "Pocket", "story": "Ask HN: What did you replace pocket with?"}, {"id": 800240772, "item_id": 50015048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015048", "by": "agnishom", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Things I like to host: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Karakeep, Deluge", "excerpt": "I use such a computer to expose services from my home server. You can do this using tailscale or even rathole. (Sadly, I don't have access to the router to port forward packets to my home server directly.) Things I like to host: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Karakeep, Deluge, Tailscale (for exit nodes, among other things) Other stuff I want to host but not yet: Immich, Vaultwarden, Hister, Archibebox, CopyParty", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 800222107, "item_id": 50013881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013881", "by": "justsomehuman", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run the following services / apps.", "excerpt": "Not quite as cheap as $5 but I've been running at Hetzner CAX31 for a couple of years now and I run the following services / apps. Actual Budget - https://github.com/actualbudget/actual AirTrail - https://github.com/johanohly/AirTrail Beszel - https://github.com/henrygd/beszel Coder - https://github.com/coder/coder Crowdsec - https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec Dawarich - https://github.com/Freika/dawarich Dozz", "context": "self-hosts on a Hetzner CAX31", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 795920384, "item_id": 49745024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745024", "by": "Vaslo", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Karakeep and at first didnt know how much redundancy I have between the two", "excerpt": "It's really great you've done all that work for importing from other apps - I use Karakeep and at first didnt know how much redundancy I have between the two, but now I am going to try this since I have so much of it already setup.", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"}, {"id": 792390352, "item_id": 49524397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524397", "by": "qlte", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "saved articles via self hosted Karakeep", "excerpt": "Boox Go 7 (B&W version) or Boox Page (discontinued) if you're willing to go Android. Both have the Oasis form factor with two physical buttons. Battery life is more like 1.5 weeks but hasn't been an issue for me at all. For me, I wanted Android after my Kindle to use the same apps I use to read books (or saved articles via self hosted Karakeep) on all my other devices.", "context": "", "use_case": "saved articles", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double"}, {"id": 791450656, "item_id": 49465666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465666", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration.", "excerpt": "Check out https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/ for inspiration. Its extension has SingleFile built in for browser capture and costs $4/month if you don't want to host it yourself. Great work!", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Vertex, your personal archiver and annotator"}, {"id": 790550512, "item_id": 49409407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409407", "by": "evanjrowley", "date": "2026-08-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "While I love Karakeep", "excerpt": "While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go. I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking / saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister \u2013 private, self hosted search engine"}, {"id": 786253680, "item_id": 49140855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140855", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items.", "excerpt": "Last year I migrated all my Firefox bookmarks (~ 1000 total) into Karakeep using their API and then deleted every bookmark except the top 10 sites that I visit most regularly. I didn't realize just how awful the discoverability of old bookmarks was until I started using karakeep to search for items. Their API is easy to use and I have a rofi script that I use to quickly open up saved pages in my browser with about 4 ", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management and search", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1"}, {"id": 786222720, "item_id": 49138920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138920", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "(no affiliation, I just use and like the project)", "excerpt": "https://github.com/karakeep-app/ (no affiliation, I just use and like the project)", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karakeep Release 0.33.1"}, {"id": 784818128, "item_id": 49051133, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051133", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-07-25", "stance": "compare", "quote": "How would you compare this to Karakeep?", "excerpt": "How would you compare this to Karakeep? https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Open-source AI bookmark manager for busy people"}, {"id": 784038577, "item_id": 49002411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002411", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "as well as Karakeep. That should cover paper and bookmark storage", "excerpt": "Great work! Recommend supporting Zotero as a first class citizen for importing papers, as well as Karakeep. That should cover paper and bookmark storage for importing context. Do you have a recommendation on how to important all of a specific user\u2019s HN comments as part of this workflow for knowledge base compiling? https://www.zotero.org/ https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep https://docs.karakeep.app/integrations", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: MindBase \u2013 an LLM that maintains a wiki from your notes and papers"}, {"id": 759979360, "item_id": 47498710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498710", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It has made my bookmarks so much more useful than just having a title and a URL", "excerpt": "I used to be a bookmarks hoarder. I would create folders for the bookmarks and organize them by category and activity, but about a year or two ago I set up an instance of Karakeep and I have honestly not looked at my Firefox bookmarks once since I did that. that. Whenever I want to save something I just save it to Karakeep which automatically tags it, pulls down an archive of it and also generates a preview of the pa", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmark saving and archiving", "switched_from": "Firefox bookmarks", "story": "Firefox Adds Tab Notes"}, {"id": 758987984, "item_id": 47436749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436749", "by": "mkarliner", "date": "2026-03-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You may want to look at Karakeep  which is what I use.", "excerpt": "You may want to look at Karakeep which is what I use. https://karakeep.app/", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 757663280, "item_id": 47353955, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353955", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-03-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay for https://karakeep.app/ (also open at https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/), create a list per friend, and then share that list", "excerpt": "I pay for https://karakeep.app/ (also open at https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/), create a list per friend, and then share that list to the friend (who can also subscribe using an RSS feed). Items to share are added to the respective lists. URLs added via Karakeep are automatically captured and archived in my instance. This model also enables federation between Karakeep instances, if so desired. Mobile apps a", "context": "paying customer", "use_case": "sharing URL lists with friends", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: In 2026, how do you share a list of URLs to the public (or friends)?"}, {"id": 756401829, "item_id": 47275114, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275114", "by": "bergheim", "date": "2026-03-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "after finding Karakeep I don't actually have 1000 tabs anymore!", "excerpt": "Strange. I have a tab hoarding problem, I often have over 1000 tabs open [1][2], and I cannot remember the last time Firefox crashed. I'm thinking it must have been years? I use ublock origin though, which might help since ads do their best to steal your computer and soul through any means possible of course. I also use a bunch of other extensions though, dark reader, vimium, sideberry... I'd expect me to be a bit mo", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking instead of open tabs", "switched_from": "", "story": "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"}, {"id": 754174400, "item_id": 47135900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135900", "by": "TheKnack", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary", "excerpt": "I used to keep everything in Obsidian, but I recently switched to keeping notes in Obsidian and links and articles in Karakeep (self-hosted). https://karakeep.app/ One of many things that I like about Karakeep is that when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary for the link. Basically it automatically categorizes everything that you save.", "context": "self-hosts it", "use_case": "saving links and articles", "switched_from": "Obsidian", "story": "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"}, {"id": 752275216, "item_id": 47017201, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017201", "by": "mbreese", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep).", "excerpt": "This looks like a nice project! I always have a love hate relationship with bookmarks. I tend to treat bookmarks as a write once read never datastore. I have a set of 2-3 bookmarklets that I use often, but almost never use other bookmarks. I do keep an archive of pages or links I find interesting, but I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep). So, I\u2019m legitimately curious \u2014 for the author or others \u2014", "context": "", "use_case": "archiving interesting links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Arcmark \u2013 macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar"}, {"id": 749366160, "item_id": 46835385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835385", "by": "kyriakos", "date": "2026-01-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting.", "excerpt": "I use self hosted https://karakeep.app/ to keep links I find interesting. In a year of use I think I only went back twice to find a link I saved. That means most of the time the stuff I think I need to keep for later are useless.", "context": "", "use_case": "saving links", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"}, {"id": 744504418, "item_id": 46531526, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531526", "by": "TheTaytay", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It sounds like Karakeep (mentioned by @miladyincontrol) does some of what I want already", "excerpt": "Good article. I nodded along and wish OP had written more about their solutions! The problem for folks like me/us is fear of \"losing\" something, and like the OP. knowing that something can be saved and found again (or stumbled across) later solves the problem, whether it's ever searched for again. The act of \"hoarding\" actually scratches the itch for me. I'm fine to close a tab if it doesn't feel like I'm \"throwing i", "context": "", "use_case": "bookmarking with search", "switched_from": "", "story": "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"}, {"id": 738672816, "item_id": 46167051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167051", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use https://karakeep.app/ to subscribe to RSS feeds; not only can I view the content in the app, but it also captures the content and stores an archive of it.", "excerpt": "I use https://karakeep.app/ to subscribe to RSS feeds; not only can I view the content in the app, but it also captures the content and stores an archive of it. It uses generative AI to create tags (but also supports full text search of everything archived). You can also create RSS feeds with criteria, with it acting as a bus for your content; perhaps it can enrich your RSS feeds while you continue to use your existi", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS subscription and archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making RSS More Fun"}]}