Karakeep

Karakeep is a modern, self-hosted bookmark manager that transforms how you save and organize digital content. Unlike simple bookmark lists, Karakeep is built for comprehensive information archival—capturing not just URLs but also notes, images, PDFs, and complete page content with automatic metadata extraction. The platform leverages AI capabilities to automatically tag and summarize saved items, eliminating the tedious manual organization that plagues traditional bookmark managers. With support for both OpenAI API and local Ollama models, you can choose between cloud-based or completely private AI processing. The full-text search engine powered by Meilisearch ensures you can instantly find any saved item regardless of how much content you've accumulated, making it perfect for researchers, developers, students, and anyone who saves large amounts of reference material. On first launch, simply visit the web interface and sign up with your email and password—the first user automatically becomes the administrator.

Common Use Cases

Researchers and students use Karakeep to build comprehensive knowledge bases, saving academic papers, articles, and references with automatic tagging that makes retrieval instant even with thousands of saved items. Developers leverage it as a personal technical reference library, bookmarking documentation, Stack Overflow solutions, GitHub repositories, and code snippets with full-text search across all saved content including PDFs and archived pages. Content creators and writers collect inspiration, research materials, and reference articles with OCR support for extracting text from infographics and images, organizing everything through AI-generated tags without manual categorization. Project managers and teams share curated lists of resources, organize bookmarks by project or client, and maintain institutional knowledge bases that persist independently of individual team members, with RSS feeds automatically importing industry news and updates into organized collections.

Key Features

• Bookmark links, notes, images, and PDFs with automatic metadata extraction
• AI-powered automatic tagging and summarization using OpenAI or local Ollama models
• Full-text search across all content including archived pages and PDFs
• OCR capability to extract and search text from images
• Page archival to preserve content even if original sources disappear
• Video downloading for offline access to saved media content
• Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox for one-click bookmarking
• Mobile apps for iOS and Android with full sync capabilities
• RSS feed integration for automatic content importing
• Collaborative list sharing for team knowledge management
• REST API for custom integrations and automation
• Multi-language interface support for international users

Why deploy Karakeep on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Karakeep on a Hostinger VPS ensures your personal knowledge base and bookmarks remain completely private on infrastructure you control, with no third-party access to your browsing history, saved content, or AI-processed summaries. The dedicated resources provide fast search performance even with thousands of bookmarks, with Meilisearch indexing and Chrome rendering running smoothly without the slowdowns common on shared hosting. Unlimited storage (within your VPS limits) means no per-bookmark fees or storage quotas like commercial bookmark services impose, making it perfect for true data hoarders who save everything. With full control over AI processing, you can choose between OpenAI integration or completely offline Ollama models for privacy-sensitive content, while page archival and video downloading run without restrictions or bandwidth limitations imposed by SaaS platforms.