Savepad as a Raindrop.io alternative
Raindrop is a really good bookmark manager. It's been around for years, it's on every device, and it's cheap. If you mostly save links, you'll be happy there. Savepad is for when you save the thing itself (the ad, the email, the screenshot, the PDF) and need to find it again by what's inside.
Where Raindrop.io wins
Apps everywhere
Browser extensions and apps for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Savepad is a web app you can install, and that is it for now.
Price
Raindrop Pro is about $3 a month. Savepad Light is €4.99. Yep.
Sharing with a team
Raindrop has shared collections with permissions. Savepad is personal, so people can look at your public pages but never edit them.
Where Savepad wins
You see the actual thing
Emails open as emails, PDFs open on the page you searched for, fonts open as a type tester and places show up on a map.
Search inside screenshots
Savepad reads the text in your images, so that screenshot of a pricing table shows up when you search for it.
Swipe file stuff
Sequences for onboarding flows, collections for things that go together, and page history on Ultra Pro Max Plus.
Your own public page
Make a space, folder, or tag public at my.savepad.app/@yourname and send people the link.
Head to head
| Feature | Raindrop.io | Savepad |
|---|---|---|
| Apps on every platform | Yes | Web app |
| Nested folders and tags | Yes | Yes |
| Full-text search | Pro only | Every plan |
| Text in images (OCR) | No | Yes |
| Emails that open as emails | No | Yes |
| Onboarding sequences | No | Yes |
| Page history | No | Ultra Pro Max Plus |
| Map view for places | No | Yes |
| Public pages | Public collections | my.savepad.app/@yourname |
| Price | Free, Pro about $3 a month | Free, €4.99 or €9.99 a month |
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Which one is for you?
Stay on Raindrop.io
If you mostly save links, you want apps on every device, and it already works for you.
Pick Savepad
If you save the stuff itself (ads, emails, screenshots, PDFs) and need to find it by what's inside.
Moving over
Export your bookmarks from Raindrop as HTML or CSV and import the file into Savepad. Collections become folders, and tags stay tags.
FAQs
Will my Raindrop collections come across?
Yep. Collections become folders, nested ones become nested folders, and tags stay tags.
Can I use Savepad and Raindrop.io together?
Sure. Lots of people keep Raindrop.io for what it's best at and use Savepad as their swipe file. You can export everything from Savepad whenever you like, so you're never locked in.
Does Savepad use AI?
Nope. No summaries, no auto-tagging, and nothing gets sent to a model. If you want AI, connect your own over MCP.
From the blog
- The best read-it-later apps: Pocket shut down in 2025 and Omnivore in 2024. The read-it-later apps still standing, what each is best at, which use AI, and which keep the page if the link dies.
- Raindrop alternatives: Raindrop is a great bookmark manager that now has an AI assistant on Pro. The alternatives worth a look if you want links, a swipe file, or just less AI.
- Diigo alternatives: Diigo was the bookmark-and-highlight tool for years. If the extension keeps breaking on you, these are the alternatives for bookmarks, highlights, and keeping pages.
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