What is this?
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app: save links, notes, images and PDFs, and it auto-fetches link details, tags everything with an LLM and gives you full-text and semantic search over all of it.
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app: save links, notes, images and PDFs, and it auto-fetches link details, tags everything with an LLM and gives you full-text and semantic search over all of it.Is it a phone app, a browser extension, or a website?It's a web app you run on your own server. Around that core you get Chrome, Firefox and Safari extensions for quick saving, iOS and Android apps with offline reading, and a REST API with multiple clients.
It's a web app you run on your own server. Around that core you get Chrome, Firefox and Safari extensions for quick saving, iOS and Android apps with offline reading, and a REST API with multiple clients.How do I get it running?Deploy it on your own server following the Installation docs (Docker is the standard route), then point the browser extension or mobile app at your instance. A seeded read-only demo lets you look around before installing.
Deploy it on your own server following the Installation docs (Docker is the standard route), then point the browser extension or mobile app at your instance. A seeded read-only demo lets you look around before installing.Do I need an OpenAI API key for the automatic tagging?Not necessarily: tagging and summarization are LLM-based (OpenAI is in the default stack), but local models via Ollama are supported, so the AI features can run without any paid API.
Not necessarily: tagging and summarization are LLM-based (OpenAI is in the default stack), but local models via Ollama are supported, so the AI features can run without any paid API.Do I have to run my own server, or is there a hosted option?Self-hosting is the primary path, so you maintain the instance — in exchange your data stays on your hardware. If you'd rather not, the official alternative is managed Karakeep Cloud at cloud.karakeep.app, funded by paid subscriptions.
Self-hosting is the primary path, so you maintain the instance — in exchange your data stays on your hardware. If you'd rather not, the official alternative is managed Karakeep Cloud at cloud.karakeep.app, funded by paid subscriptions.What can I actually save in it — just links?Links, simple notes, images and PDFs. For links it auto-fetches the title, description and image; you can sort saves into lists (shared lists support collaboration), mark highlights, and import existing bookmarks from Chrome, Pocket, Linkwarden, Omnivore and Tab Session Manager.
Links, simple notes, images and PDFs. For links it auto-fetches the title, description and image; you can sort saves into lists (shared lists support collaboration), mark highlights, and import existing bookmarks from Chrome, Pocket, Linkwarden, Omnivore and Tab Session Manager.How does the search work — will it find text inside images?You get full-text and semantic search across everything stored, and OCR extracts text from images so even screenshots become searchable. Under the hood the search runs on Meilisearch.
You get full-text and semantic search across everything stored, and OCR extracts text from images so even screenshots become searchable. Under the hood the search runs on Meilisearch.What happens when a saved link dies later?That's covered: Karakeep does full-page archival with monolith to protect against link rot and auto-archives videos with yt-dlp.
That's covered: Karakeep does full-page archival with monolith to protect against link rot and auto-archives videos with yt-dlp.Why did the author build this instead of using Pocket?They kept saving finds from Reddit, Twitter and Hacker News to read later on a laptop, and after getting into home-labbing wanted that read-it-later workflow self-hosted. Pocket is shutting down, so they built Karakeep as a tool they use daily — and to stay hands-on with web development.
They kept saving finds from Reddit, Twitter and Hacker News to read later on a laptop, and after getting into home-labbing wanted that read-it-later workflow self-hosted. Pocket is shutting down, so they built Karakeep as a tool they use daily — and to stay hands-on with web development.What are similar projects?linkwarden, omnivore, edgeever, linkding, localGPT, SingleFile, joplin, FluentRead
linkwarden, omnivore, edgeever, linkding, localGPT, SingleFile, joplin, FluentReadWhich topics is it in?read-it-later, web-archiving, bookmarks, yt-dlp, full-text-search, firefox-extension, sso, self-hosting, agplv3, note-taking, semantic-search, collaboration
read-it-later, web-archiving, bookmarks, yt-dlp, full-text-search, firefox-extension, sso, self-hosting, agplv3, note-taking, semantic-search, collaboration