Raindrop.io vs Shiori

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.

Shiori is a free, Go-based bookmark manager that can be used from the command line or as a web application. It supports adding, editing, deleting, and searching bookmarks, and can import from Pocket or Netscape Bookmark files. Export is available in Netscape Bookmark format. Where possible, it parses readable page content by default; users can also create offline webpage archives and ePub ebooks. The project documents SQLite3, PostgreSQL, and MySQL support. It is self-hosted and offered as a single binary under the MIT license, which permits use and modification. Installation options include precompiled binaries, source builds, and Docker images, with instructions for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Beta web extensions are described for Firefox and Chrome. Shiori is listed at free. Its documented API v1 is still under development, and the project warns that breaking changes may happen before release. Contributions through pull requests are welcomed, including contributions to community-provided installation methods.