Karakeep saves links, notes, and images, then uses AI tagging and several search methods to help users retrieve them. Search includes full-text, keyword, hybrid, and semantic options; OCR makes text in images and screenshots searchable. Saved articles have a reader view, text highlighting, and offline reading in the mobile apps. Users can create rules to organize bookmarks, follow RSS feeds, publish lists as RSS feeds, and share lists with friends or teammates as editors or viewers. For AI assistant access, Karakeep offers agentic skills, a first-party MCP server, a CLI, and an API with scoped permissions and markdown content. The open-source app can be self-hosted with Docker; that plan is free with unlimited bookmarks and storage. The cloud Free plan is 0.00 USD per free and includes 10 bookmarks and 20MB storage. Pro costs 4.00 USD per month and includes 50,000 bookmarks and 50GB storage. The privacy policy says cloud primary data is stored in Europe and personal data is not sold; self-hosted data stays on the user's infrastructure.
Who it is for
Karakeep suits people who save links, notes, and images and want multiple ways to search and organize them. It also suits teams sharing lists or users who want to self-host their bookmark library.
What is good
- OCR makes image and screenshot text searchable
- Mobile apps support offline article reading
- Self-hosted plan is free with unlimited bookmarks and storage
- Shared lists support editor and viewer roles
- Cloud data is stored in Europe
What to know first
- Free cloud plan is limited to 10 bookmarks
- Free cloud plan includes 20MB storage
- Pro costs 4.00 USD per month
Verdict
Karakeep offers search, organization, and shared-list features for saved links, notes, and images, with both cloud and self-hosted options. Its free cloud plan has limits; self-hosting is free with unlimited bookmarks and storage.
Karakeep plans and pricing
All plansCompared on bookmark managers
- Free plan
- Yes
- Full-text search
- Yes
- Browser extension
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- Yes
- Web archiving
- Yes
- Saved item limit
- 10 items
- Duplicate detection
- Yes
