Karakeep vs Raindrop.io
Karakeep and Raindrop.io are both bookmark manager software. Karakeep is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 30k GitHub stars. Raindrop.io is a commercial product from Raindrop.io.
Which to pick
- Pick Karakeep when
- You want a self-hosted replacement for Pocket or Raindrop with automatic tagging.
- Pick Raindrop.io when
- You want to organise lots of bookmarks visually across browsers and devices.
Side by side
A self-hosted bookmark and read-it-later app for links, notes and images, with AI tagging, full-text search, page archiving and browser and mobile clients.
A bookmark manager that saves links, articles, images and videos into collections with tags, previews and full-text search on the paid plan.
AI tagging needs an OpenAI key or a local Ollama model, and the stack (Meilisearch, headless Chrome) uses noticeable resources.
Run by a very small team, and permanent copies and full-text search need Pro.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server, mobile app and browser extension
Cloud service, browser extension and mobile app
TypeScript, Next.js, React Native, SQLite and Meilisearch
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Raindrop.io
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
30k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.34.1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.