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title: "Savepad as a Raindrop.io alternative"
description: "Raindrop.io is a great bookmark manager. Savepad keeps the page, the email and the screenshot, and searches inside all of them. Here's how they compare."
source: https://savepad.app/compare/raindrop
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# 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.

[Join the waitlist](https://savepad.app/#waitlist) [Head to head](#head-to-head)

*Savepad and Raindrop.io, side by side*

## 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 Lite 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 Pro.
- **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 | Pro |
| 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 |

Checked against [Raindrop.io’s website](https://raindrop.io) on 28 September 2026. Something out of date? [Let me know](mailto:r@savepad.app?subject=Savepad%20vs%20Raindrop.io) and I'll fix it.

## 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.

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## Want in first?

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