Historious vs Raindrop.io

Historious saves webpages so users can find them later by searching their contents. A one-click bookmark saves a site without requiring a category choice or form, and full-text search supports Lucene query syntax. The service keeps a cached version of each saved page, which may remain available if the original site is unavailable. Saved links default to private; users can select links to publish on a personal search page that others can search. Subscribers can use private feeds for saved items and public feeds for public ones. Users can import bookmarks from other sources and export saved sites through settings. Browser access includes Chrome and Firefox extensions, plus a bookmarklet that works across browsers. The API accepts POST requests and returns JSON, including calls to add pages and retrieve tags or user information. Historious lists web, Android, iOS, API, and extension platforms, and its FAQ describes phone use, with bookmarklet setup varying by phone. The free plan includes 50 historified sites, with the limit raisable to 2,000 by referring friends. Paid subscriptions cost $3.97 a month or $29.95 a year. A fair-use limit of 10,000 historifications may apply, including on paid plans.

Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager for saving and organizing material found while browsing, including articles, books and songs. Users can sort bookmarks into collections, tag them, and filter by type, tag or domain. The library offers article and video previews in Grid, Headlines, Masonry and List views. Collaboration is available on the free plan: users can set collection permissions and share public collections with visitors who do not need to sign up. Free includes unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights and devices, plus 100 MB of file uploads per month. Pro adds 10 GB of monthly file uploads, full-text search across saved web pages, PDFs and YouTube videos, web archiving, reminders, annotations, daily backups, an AI assistant and suggestions, and priority email support. No Pro price amount is listed. Integrations include Apple Shortcuts, IFTTT, Make, Zapier, ChatGPT, Claude, Notion, Readwise, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. The maker says collections are private by default, data is stored on AWS servers in Frankfurt, Germany, and continuous backups can restore data to a point within the past year.