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=truein 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
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |