Karakeep

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hosted bookmark manager with AI features — saves links, auto-tags content via LLM, generates summaries, archives full-text + screenshot of pages. Modern alternative to Pocket, Raindrop, Pinboard.

The "Notion of bookmarks" — heavy on automation, visual, with API for browser extensions and mobile apps.

What it's for

  • Personal knowledge curation — save articles, organize via AI tagging
  • Link archival — full-text + screenshot capture (links rot, archives don't)
  • Research collection — tagged, searchable library of references
  • Reading queue — read-it-later with full-text caching
  • Team-shared bookmark vaults — multi-user with shared lists

Who it's for

  • Knowledge workers building personal research libraries
  • Privacy-conscious users rejecting Pocket / Raindrop cloud sync
  • Indie devs maintaining inspiration / tool collections
  • Researchers organizing reading lists by project
  • Teams sharing curated content lists

Why teams pick Karakeep over alternatives

  • AGPLv3 — fully open
  • AI tagging — automatic content categorization
  • Full-text archival — pages saved as text + screenshot
  • Active development — frequent releases
  • Mobile apps — iOS + Android
  • Browser extensions — Firefox / Chrome / Safari one-click save

Integrations

  • Meilisearch — full-text search backend (built-in)
  • Headless Chrome — page preview + screenshot (built-in)
  • LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama for AI tagging (optional)
  • Browser extensions — official Chrome / Firefox / Safari
  • Mobile apps — official iOS + Android via App Store / Play Store
  • API — REST API for custom integrations
  • Importers — Pocket, Linkding, Netscape HTML, Omnivore

Notable users & community

  • 15k+ GitHub stars (under "hoarder-app" → renamed Karakeep)
  • Featured in self-hosted productivity guides
  • Active GitHub Discussions community
  • Backed by single dedicated maintainer with sustainable releases
  • Default modern bookmark mgr for r/selfhosted in 2025

Tips & operations

  • Disable signups after admin user — DISABLE_SIGNUPS=true in env
  • AI tagging optional — pairs naturally with Ollama on same VPS (free) or OpenAI (paid)
  • Persistent volumes critical/opt/karakeep/data + /opt/karakeep/meili
  • Chromium worker memory — preview generation can spike RAM
  • Backup priority — your reading history is the asset
  • Browser extension — install + login to get one-click save

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Docker stack: Karakeep + Meilisearch + headless Chromium
  • Pinned ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:release
  • Auto-generated NextAuth secret + Meili master key
  • Persistent volumes: /opt/karakeep/data + /opt/karakeep/meili
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt reverse proxy
  • AI tagging documented — auto-detect Ollama on same VPS
  • Backup hook covers data + Meilisearch index
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