Karakeep vs SingleFile
Karakeep and SingleFile are both bookmark manager software. Karakeep is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 30k GitHub stars. SingleFile is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 23k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Karakeep when
- You want a self-hosted replacement for Pocket or Raindrop with automatic tagging.
- Pick SingleFile when
- You need faithful offline copies of web pages for reference, evidence or archiving.
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 browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and others that saves a complete web page, including images and styles, into a single HTML file, with a CLI version too.
AI tagging needs an OpenAI key or a local Ollama model, and the stack (Meilisearch, headless Chrome) uses noticeable resources.
Pages with heavy dynamic content can save imperfectly, and the AGPL applies if you build on the code.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server, mobile app and browser extension
Browser extension and command line
TypeScript, Next.js, React Native, SQLite and Meilisearch
JavaScript
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
30k GitHub stars
23k GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.34.1.
Established: started 16 years ago, latest release v1.34.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.