tinykoiThe best Raindrop alternatives in 2026
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If you want a Raindrop alternative, the right one depends on what you are missing. Linkwarden and Karakeep suit people who want to self-host, Readwise Reader suits heavy readers who will pay for it, Instapaper suits plain read-it-later use, and tinykoi suits people who want a hosted bookmark manager with full-text search on the free plan.
Raindrop itself is good. This post is for people who have a specific reason to look elsewhere: a feature that sits behind Pro, a limit they keep hitting, or a wish to own the data. Competitor details below were checked in October 2026 against each product's own pricing pages and docs.
What Raindrop gives you, so you know what to match
Raindrop's limits page says the free plan has unlimited bookmarks, collections and tags. Pro adds a web archive, full-text search, a broken link checker, a duplicate finder and automatic backups. File uploads are 100 MB a month on Free and 10 GB a month on Pro, with a single-file cap of 100 MB and 300 MB respectively. Pro costs about $3 a month or $28 a year.
That is the baseline. Anything below that costs more, or takes something away, needs a reason.
The comparison at a glance
| Price | Archived copy | Full-text search | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tinykoi | Free, Pro $3 a month or $24 a year | Pro | Every plan | Hosted only, Chrome extension only |
| Linkwarden | Cloud $3 a month billed yearly, self-hosting free | Yes | Yes | 10 MB largest file, JSON-only export |
| Karakeep | Cloud free for 50 bookmarks, Pro $4 a month, self-hosting free | Yes | Pro | Experimental search by meaning |
| Readwise Reader | From $7.99 a month after a 30-day trial | Yes | Yes | No free plan |
| Instapaper | Free, Premium $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year | Premium | Premium | Free search covers titles only |
| Raindrop | Free, Pro about $3 a month or $28 a year | Pro | Pro | The baseline |
tinykoi
tinykoi is a hosted bookmark manager. The free plan has no bookmark cap, searches every word of every page you save, and includes tags, notes, favourites, nested collections, a reader view with highlights, and export to HTML or CSV. Pro adds an archived copy of every page, monthly broken link checks, a duplicate finder, AI tagging and search by meaning.
Its upload limits match Raindrop's: 100 MB a month on Free, 10 GB on Pro, and a 300 MB largest file on Pro. The browser extension is Chrome only, and there are no mobile apps. If you need either, tinykoi is the wrong pick today.
It can import a browser bookmarks file, a Raindrop CSV, an Instapaper CSV, and Karakeep and Linkwarden JSON exports. The full list of what each plan includes is on the features page.
Where it is ahead of Raindrop: full-text search on the free plan, and no duplicate copies when you save a link twice. Raindrop's own comparison shows full-text search as Pro only.
Linkwarden
Linkwarden archives pages, has highlights, AI tagging, and an API. Self-hosting is free, which tinykoi cannot match. Its cloud plan is $3 a month billed yearly.
The catches from its docs: the largest file you can upload is 10 MB, uploads are PDFs and images, tags come without notes, there is no trash, and export is JSON only. If you want to run your own server and keep everything on it, Linkwarden is a strong choice.
Karakeep
Karakeep is also self-hostable for free, with a hosted option that is free for 50 bookmarks and $4 a month on Pro. It handles duplicates, supports highlights, reads PDFs in its viewer, and archives pages.
Full-text search and AI tagging are on Pro, search by meaning is marked experimental, and it has no trash. Its broken link handling covers failed saves only, not links that rot later. Uploads are limited to 50 MB per file, with 100 MB stored on the free cloud plan and 50 GB on Pro. That is more storage than tinykoi Pro, if you store a lot of files.
Readwise Reader
Reader is built for reading first. It has full-text search, an archive, a trash, AI tagging, a 500 MB file limit (higher than tinykoi's 300 MB) and search through an AI chat. It has no free plan: pricing starts at $7.99 a month after a 30-day trial.
It also has no collections, highlights use a single colour, and batch actions work on the whole list only. If you read long articles and want highlights flowing into a reading workflow, it is the strongest option here. If you want to file things into folders, it is not.
Instapaper
Instapaper is the simplest of the group. Free works well as a queue. Search on Free covers titles only, and full-text search, filters, archived copies and PDF uploads need Premium at $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Free is limited to 5 highlights a month. Folders are flat, tags have no notes, and apps need approval to use its API.
It is a read-later app, not a library. That is fine if all you want is a queue.
How to choose a Raindrop alternative
Start with your actual reason for leaving.
- You want to run your own server: Linkwarden or Karakeep.
- You want full-text search without paying: tinykoi.
- You want a polished reading tool and will pay for it: Readwise Reader.
- You just want a queue: Instapaper's free plan.
- You mostly like Raindrop but resent a price or limit: compare the numbers above first. The prices are close.
A fair test is to import your real library into two candidates and search for something you remember only vaguely. How a tool finds a half-remembered page tells you more than any feature table.
For a row-by-row view of tinykoi against Raindrop, see the features page and pricing.
Try it with your own bookmarks
The free plan needs no card, so you can import a few hundred bookmarks and see how search behaves. Start on the free plan and decide after a week.