Reminiscence vs Saved.io
Reminiscence
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| Figure | Reminiscence | Saved.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1.33/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Bookmark Managers | 8.3 (#9) | 7.7 (#29) |
| API | A REST API supports token login, adding URLs, listing saved URLs and directories, and logging out. | The API supports saving, searching, organizing, archiving, and deleting bookmarks, with personal tokens and OAuth authentication. |
| Integrations | Media archiving uses configurable third-party download managers; curl and wget are listed as defaults, and youtube-dl is given as an option. | Saved.io provides an MCP server for clients that support streamable HTTP MCP servers and Bearer token authentication. |
| Organization | Users can categorize bookmarks in directories, edit metadata, and search by URL, title, tags, or summary. | Bookmarks can be organized into lists and tagged using hashtags in notes. |
| Privacy | The README says directories and links are private by default; archived media links are also not shared by default. | Bookmarks are private by default unless the user publishes or shares a list. |
| Purpose | Reminiscence is a self-hosted bookmark and archive manager described as a hybrid of a bookmark manager and a personal wayback machine. | Saved.io stores bookmarks in the cloud and makes them available on any device, regardless of platform or browser. |
| Security | The reader removes JavaScript from the original archived format for security reasons, and the README advises migrating from versions using wkhtmltopdf because of a security vulnerability. | The privacy policy says Saved.io uses reasonable technical and organisational safeguards and advises users to keep API tokens private. |
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