What is Karakeep?
Karakeep, previously called Hoarder, is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI. You can bookmark links, take simple notes, and store images and PDFs, then sort bookmarks into lists and collaborate with others on the same list.
Search covers full text and semantic matching across all stored content. Automatic tagging and summarization use an LLM, with support for local models through Ollama. Optional features include OCR for extracting text from images, full page archival to protect against link rot, automatic video archiving with yt-dlp, and automatic hoarding from RSS feeds. A rule-based engine handles customized management.
The web app is built with NextJS, Drizzle, Better Auth and tRPC, uses Puppeteer for crawling bookmarks and Meilisearch for the full content search, and has an iOS app and an Android app. Karakeep offers a REST API, multiple clients and SSO support, and imports bookmarks from Chrome, Pocket, Linkwarden, Omnivore and Tab Session Manager. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and owned by Localhost Labs Ltd. Self-hosting comes first in its design.
Key capabilities
- Bookmarks, notes, images and PDFs in one place
- Full text and semantic search
- LLM-based tagging and summarization, with local models supported
- Page archival and video archiving
- Lists with shared collaboration
- REST API, browser extensions and mobile apps
Where Karakeep fits
- Saving and organizing links, notes, images and PDFs
- Search across stored content
- AI tagging and summaries
- Archiving against link rot
- RSS auto-saving and rule-based management
- Importers and SSO
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