# ZeroMark vs Karakeep · Self-host the pile, or finish

> Karakeep is the open-source bookmark-everything app, self-hosted, with AI tags. ZeroMark is a hosted queue that reads your X bookmarks and clears them.

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vs Karakeep

## Karakeep keeps everything on your server. ZeroMark keeps very little.

Karakeep, the app once known as Hoarder, is open source. You can self-host it for nothing, or use their cloud with a Pro plan at $4 a month or $40 a year. It tags with AI, searches the full text, and has apps for iOS, Android, Chrome and Firefox. Owning the server is a real advantage. It does not, by itself, make the unread count go down.

Pick Karakeep if you want the data on your own machine, open source, and every kind of link. Pick ZeroMark if the source is X bookmarks and the outcome is a finished queue. ZeroMark is hosted. Self-host is not offered.

We make ZeroMark. Every fact about Karakeep below comes from their own site, checked 17 October 2026, and linked in Sources. If we have a fact wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

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Free for your latest 50 saves. [**$4.99 a month**](https://www.zeromark.io/pricing), or [**$39 a year**](https://www.zeromark.io/pricing), reads them all.

[Pricing](https://www.zeromark.io/pricing) · [FAQ](https://www.zeromark.io/faq) · [Privacy](https://www.zeromark.io/privacy).

### At a glance

· Karakeep · ZeroMark

Hosting · Self-host free, or their cloud · Hosted web app

Open source · Yes · No

Sources · Links, notes, images · X bookmarks

AI · Tags and full-text search · A summary on every save, then a verdict

Price · Cloud Pro $4 a month or $40 a year. Self-host free · $39 a year or $4.99 a month, plus a free plan

### What Karakeep does better

- You can own the data. Open source, self-host, no bill.

- Apps and browsers we do not ship.

### Where ZeroMark is different

- A summary on every save before you see it, including the quoted post a reaction is about, plus why you kept it.

- One decision per save: done, let go, or snooze for a week. Undo walks the sitting back. The open queue ends on a Zero card.

- Order comes from your own finish rate: what you mark done against what you let go.

- Keeps can leave for Notion, Obsidian, or a file. Stopping payment does not delete what is already read.

- The X connection is read-only. Triage stays inside ZeroMark. Nothing is posted, liked, followed, or removed on X.

### Where ZeroMark falls short

- Not open source, and not self-hosted.

- Not a bookmark-everything archive.

### Pricing, side by side

Karakeep: Their cloud Pro is $4 a month or $40 a year. Self-hosting is free. That $40 is close to $39 here, for a different job. ZeroMark: Free for your latest 50 saves, no card and no clock. $4.99 a month or $39 a year reads the library your connection returns. A 30-day refund covers the first paid charge. Card payments go through Stripe. Prices change. Check both before you pay.

### Switching, or using both

- Keep Karakeep if it already does a job you want, such as search, backup, or a digest.

- Connect X on ZeroMark. The connection is read-only, so the list on X stays as it is.

- Clear your latest saves on the free plan. Decide each one: done, let go, or snooze for a week.

- Send keeps to Notion, Obsidian, or a file. Nothing on X is deleted by ZeroMark.

### Who should pick which

If "my server, my data" is the requirement, Karakeep wins before the conversation starts. If "I want this X list to end" is the requirement, ZeroMark is the one that treats that as the product.

### Questions people ask

#### Does ZeroMark self-host?

No. It is a hosted web app.

#### Is Karakeep free?

Self-hosting is. Their cloud has a free tier and Pro at $4 a month or $40 a year.

#### Does Karakeep read X bookmarks?

It stores links you give it. A native read-only sync of X bookmarks is ZeroMark's path, not the claim we are making for Karakeep.

#### Can I use both?

Yes. Karakeep can hold everything. ZeroMark can clear X.

#### Which is cheaper for a year of cloud?

Karakeep Pro is $40 a year. ZeroMark is Free for your latest 50 saves, no card and no clock. $4.99 a month or $39 a year reads the library your connection returns. A 30-day refund covers the first paid charge. Card payments go through Stripe.

### Sources

Checked 17 October 2026.

- [Karakeep pricing](https://karakeep.app/pricing/)

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