Bookmark and read-later privacy ratings
Bookmark managers, read-later apps and bookmark sync.
11 bookmarks and read-later are rated against 4 public criteria, and 11 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 4 with a known jurisdiction, 4 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 4 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.
Open-source bookmarks and read-later only · Criteria for this category · Suggest an addition · Markdown
| Name | Grade | Score | Data | Jurisdiction | Open source | No trackers or telemetry | No ads or data sales | Independent audit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Browser extension and Android app that syncs bookmarks through a user-chosen backend such as Nextcloud Bookmarks, WebDAV, Google Drive or Git. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Bookmark manager, formerly called Hoarder, for saving links, notes, images and PDFs with full-text search, page archiving and optional AI tagging; it can be self-hosted or used as the paid Karakeep Cloud. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | United Kingdom Five Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Self-hosted bookmark manager with tags, Markdown notes, page archiving, multi-user sharing, a REST API and browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Self-hosted read-it-later and bookmark application that saves articles, pictures and video transcripts, with labels, highlights, collections, e-book export and a browser extension. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Self-hosted bookmark manager written in Go, with a web interface, command-line tool, import and export, and offline archiving of saved pages. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Open-source bookmark manager that treats saved links as a to-do list; it can be self-hosted or used through the hosted service at unmark.it. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Browser extension and Android app that syncs bookmarks with end-to-end encryption through a community-run or self-hosted sync server, without an account. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Self-hostable read-it-later application that saves the text of web articles for distraction-free reading, with browser extensions, mobile apps, e-reader support and an official hosted service, wallabag.it. |
Grade C | 65 | 100% | – | Yes | Partial | Yes | No |
Bookmark manager that saves full copies of pages as HTML, screenshots and PDF, with collections, tags, reader view and highlights; it can be self-hosted or used as a paid cloud service. |
Grade D | 50 | 100% | Canada Five Eyes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Hosted bookmark manager for saving, tagging and organizing links, articles and files in collections, with a web app, browser extensions and desktop and mobile apps. |
Grade F | 35 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Partial | No | Yes | No |
Hosted read-it-later service that saves web articles in a clean reading format for the web, mobile apps and Kindle and Kobo e-readers, with an optional Premium subscription. |
Grade F | 0 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | No | No |
Questions
What is the most private option among bookmarks and read-later?
No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.
How are bookmarks and read-later rated?
Each entry answers 4 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales and independent audit. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.
Does jurisdiction matter?
Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.