Karakeep (previously Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.
Quickly save links, notes, and images and Karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Bookmark links, take simple notes and store images and pdfs.
- Automatic fetching for link titles, descriptions and images.
- Sort your bookmarks into lists.
- Full text search of all the content stored.
- AI-based (aka chatgpt) automatic tagging and summarization. With supports for local models using ollama.
- Rule-based engine for customized management.
- OCR for extracting text from images.
- Chrome plugin and Firefox addon for quick bookmarking.
- An iOS app, and an Android app.
- Auto hoarding from RSS feeds.
- REST API.
- Multi-language support.
- Mark and store highlights from your hoarded content.
- Full page archival (using monolith) to protect against link rot. Auto video archiving using youtube-dl.
- Bulk actions support.
- SSO support.
- Dark mode support.
- Self-hosting first.
Website: github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep
Support:
Developer: Karakeep
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Karakeep is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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