Alternatives to Bookmark Ninja
Cloud bookmark manager for sharing and organizing links across teams
Bookmark Ninja ranks #10 of 11 in Bookmark managers, with an Alt Score of 55. It is proprietary, sold by subscription from $1.99/mo and available on Web and Browser extension. 7 of 10 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Bookmark Ninja is a browser-based bookmark manager aimed at individuals and teams, offering tagging, a customizable multi-column dashboard, duplicate detection, a dead-link finder, and optional password-protected sharing. It works through a browser extension across all major browsers without requiring a native app install.
People who save a large number of bookmarks across desktop and mobile browsers and want a dedicated, always-accessible manager instead of relying on a single browser's built-in bookmarks bar.
A cloud-hosted bookmark manager with a Dashboard organized into Tabs and Category groups, a separate My Bookmarks list view with tag filtering and search, a Catalog for archiving less-used links, tools to find duplicate and dead links, tagging and notes on bookmarks, and optional public or password-protected sharing of Tabs.
Bookmarks are added through the 'Add to Ninja' browser extension or a bookmarklet, or by importing a standard HTML bookmarks file exported from a browser or another bookmark manager. All data is stored in the vendor's cloud infrastructure and accessed by logging into bookmarkninja.com from any browser on desktop or mobile, with no local application or sync setup required.
Where Bookmark Ninja stands out
Verified capabilities most alternatives don't have.
Why people leave Bookmark Ninja
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Ranked alternatives
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Servas is an open-source, self-hosted bookmark manager built on Laravel/Inertia with a Svelte frontend, organizing bookmarks into nested groups filterable by tags.
mymind is a save-everything bookmarking tool that uses AI to automatically classify and tag saved links, screenshots, quotes and notes so users don't have to manually sort them.
Shaarli is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted bookmarking tool that runs without a database, making it deployable on very limited hardware (including a Raspberry Pi).
Feature comparison
How Bookmark Ninja compares with its alternatives, feature by feature.
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Every fact and feature listed for Bookmark Ninja is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-30
Closed-source SaaS; no LICENSE file or public source repository exists.
The Service and its original content, features and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of Bookmark Ninja and its licensors.
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Starts at $1.99/mo verified 2026-07-30
The price is rendered as separate styled digit/cent/period elements ($, 1, .99, /mo) on the pricing block; concatenated page text reads "$1.99/mo" immediately followed by "billed annually". Follows a
$1.99/mo
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Pricing model Subscription verified 2026-07-30
Single paid tier billed annually after a 30-day free trial; no permanent free tier, so not classified as Freemium.
Pricing after the 30-day FREE Trial
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Platforms Web, Browser extension verified 2026-07-30
Accessed entirely through the web browser (desktop and mobile, with a dedicated mobile-optimized UI) plus 'Add to Ninja' browser extensions/bookmarklets for saving pages. No native Windows/macOS/Linux
No mobile app installation is required, simply launch bookmarkninja.com in your mobile browser.
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Status active verified 2026-07-30
Dated June 10, 2025 — the most recent public update found, about 13 months before this research. Site, signup and login are all live and no shutdown/acquisition/rename announcement was found, but the
New versions of the Firefox Add to Ninja and Bookmark All Tabs extensions are now available: You can now assign shortcut keys to both extensions.
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Browser extension Yes verified 2026-07-30
Use either the 'Add to Ninja' browser extension or bookmarklet for bookmarking a page. The browser extension is available for all the popular browsers, the bookmarklet is available for all the browser
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Full-text search of pages No verified 2026-07-30
Search in Title, URL, Notes and Tags" field and click on "Search". Bookmarks with the searched text in the Title or URL or Notes or Tags will be displayed." — Documented search indexes the bookmark's title/URL/notes/tags only, not the full text content of the saved page.
Enter any text in the
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Tags & collections Yes verified 2026-07-30
Bookmark Ninja's own terms for collections are Tabs and Category groups (plus a separate Catalog); tags are supported alongside them.
Bookmarks can be edited (title, url, tags, notes), deleted or moved to another Tab and Category group.
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Sharing Yes verified 2026-07-30
From now you can make any of your tabs public and share them with your friends and coworkers. You can even make web directories from your favorite links.
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Self-hostable No verified 2026-07-30
Proprietary, vendor-hosted SaaS only; the About page states the infrastructure is "securely hosted in Amazon's Virginia data center". No self-hosted/on-prem option, source code, or repository was foun
All the data are kept in the cloud, so you can instantly access your bookmarks from any desktop computer or mobile device. No synchronization is required.
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Broken-link detection Yes verified 2026-07-30
dead" if it returns error 404 (page not found) or the link contains a non-exis"
With this tool you can easily clean up your bookmarks by finding and deleting dead links. A web link is considered to be
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Import from browser Yes verified 2026-07-30
If you have been saving bookmarks in your web browser or in another bookmark manager, simply export the bookmarks from the browser or your current bookmark manager and import the HTML bookmarks file i
https://www.bookmarkninja.com/home
FAQ
Yes. Raindrop.io, Diigo and LinkAce have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
Linkwarden, LinkAce and Linkding — every license claim links its source.