Bookmarkeddit Alternative: Search Your Reddit Saves

Most posts that compare Reddit save managers start by ranking features. That is the wrong place to start, because every tool in this category reads the same API, and the API decides most of what any of them can do.

Bookmarkeddit is a good example. It is free, it is open source, it looks better than anything else in the category, and its privacy design is the best of the bunch. It also cannot show you most of what you have saved, and that is not the developer’s fault.

So this post does two things. It tells you the real state of Bookmarkeddit as of today, verified rather than assumed, and then it ranks the alternatives on the two axes that actually separate them. Not features. What you hand over, and what happens when the developer moves on.

What is Bookmarkeddit?

Bookmarkeddit is a free, open-source web app that reads your Reddit saved posts and comments through Reddit’s official API and gives you the search, filtering, and sorting that Reddit itself never built.

You log in with Reddit, it pulls your saves, and you get a searchable grid. Its own tagline calls it “Reddit’s missing save manager”, which is fair. Reddit gives you a reverse-chronological list and a search box that mostly does not help. Bookmarkeddit gives you full-text search across titles and post bodies, filters by subreddit and post type, grid and list layouts, sorting by date, upvotes or comment count, inline images and video, and the ability to unsave from inside the app.

It was built by Mateus Silva. The source is on GitHub under an MIT license, written in React and TypeScript with a small Node and Express backend. It costs nothing and shows no ads.

That is a genuinely good free tool, and I want to be clear about that before the next section, because the next section is less flattering.

Is Bookmarkeddit still maintained?

Barely, and the distinction matters more than a yes or no.

I checked on August 1, 2026. The site returns a working app and the Reddit login flow completes normally. The repository is not archived. But the commit history tells a different story from the live site.

One commit in fourteen months, and that commit moved a modal to the middle of the page. A bug reported in April is still open in August.

Here is the take that matters though. That is not abandonment, it is the completely normal life cycle of a free side project, and treating it as a red flag is how people end up paying for things they did not need. Somebody built a useful thing, shipped it, and got on with their life. The app still does the job it did in May 2025 because the job did not change.

The failure mode to actually worry about is different. Reddit changes its API roughly every couple of years, and it did so aggressively in 2023. When it next does, an unmaintained client breaks in a week and nobody is on hand to fix it. That is a real risk, and it has a clean answer further down this post.

If you want the case where a tool really has gone quiet, our Saveddit alternative post covers a comparable app whose last code change was March 2022. Four years is a different category from seven months.

Is Bookmarkeddit safe to connect to your Reddit account?

This is where Bookmarkeddit is genuinely better than its competition, and where almost nobody looks.

When you authorize a Reddit app, you agree to a list of OAuth scopes. That list is the actual contract. It is more informative than any privacy policy, because it is enforced by Reddit rather than promised by a developer. Nobody ranks these tools on it, so here it is.

Bookmarkeddit asks for three. Two of them are read-only. The third, save, is write access, and it is the one people skim past. It is there so you can unsave from inside the app, which is a feature you probably want, but it does mean an app you authorized in 2025 can still remove saves from your account in 2027 until you revoke it.

On storage, the site says your data “never leaves your browser” and that it stores nothing on its servers. The second half is verifiably true. The README describes the backend as a proxy to Reddit’s API that “doesn’t store anything about you or your saved posts”, and your saves are kept in your browser’s local storage.

The first half is slightly stronger than the architecture. Your data does pass through their proxy in transit, because that is how the app talks to Reddit. It is not stored there, which is the part that matters, but “never leaves your browser” is a marketing sentence rather than a technical one. I am flagging it because it is checkable, not because it is alarming. A stateless proxy that retains nothing is a good design and better than most paid alternatives manage.

The one practical consequence of local storage worth knowing is that there is no sync. Your library lives in one browser on one device. Clear your site data and it is gone, and re-fetching only gets you back what the API will still hand over. Which brings us to the ceiling.

Why can’t Bookmarkeddit see all your saved posts?

Because Reddit will not give it to them.

Reddit’s API caps listings. The PRAW documentation states it plainly: “Most of Reddit’s listings contain a maximum of 1000 items, and are returned 100 at a time.” Your saved posts are a listing. If you have saved 4,000 things since 2016, an app reading the official API can fetch the most recent 1,000 and has no mechanism to ask for number 1,001.

Bookmarkeddit does not mention this anywhere on its site. Neither does RedditManager. Neither did Saveddit. That is not dishonesty so much as an awkward thing to put next to a feature called “Smart Search”, but it means the promise of finding “anything in your saved content” is really a promise about your last 1,000 items.

This is the single most important thing to understand before you go shopping for an alternative, because it dissolves most of the shopping. Swapping one API client for another cannot get you past a limit that lives in the API. If your complaint about Bookmarkeddit is that your old saves are missing, no tool on this list fixes it. We cover the mechanics and the workarounds in the Reddit saved posts limit guide.

There are exactly two escapes. Reddit’s own data export, which runs inside your account and reaches further back, and capturing posts at the moment you save them rather than reading them back later.

The 6 best Bookmarkeddit alternatives

Ranked by the trade-off you are accepting, not by feature count. For a fuller ranked list of the category, see our Reddit saved posts manager roundup.

Self-hosted Bookmarkeddit: if your only worry is that the hosted version might stall, this is the correct answer and almost nobody gives it. The MIT license and the Docker setup in the repository mean you can run the exact same app yourself, forever, with no dependency on whether Mateus ships again. It needs Node 16 or later and your own Reddit API credentials. Not for everyone, but if you were considering paying $10 a month to escape a maintenance risk, spend an hour here instead.

RedditManager: the closest live like-for-like, and it adds the export that Bookmarkeddit lacks. It is live and it works. The reason it sits below self-hosting is the permission list. Five scopes with permanent duration, including vote, is a lot to grant a free tool for the sake of a CSV download. If you use it, revoke it afterwards. We took that permission list apart properly in our RedditManager review.

Reddit’s own data export: request it from your account privacy settings. It is the only path to saves older than your most recent 1,000, and it is free and official. It hands you a CSV of post IDs and dates rather than titles or content, so you will need to do work to make it readable. Worth it once, as an archive.

Dewey: the paid option, at $10 a month or $7.50 billed annually, with a genuinely usable free tier that syncs manually. It covers X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and Threads as well as Reddit, and it stores copies of the content so a deleted post is not a dead link. If you want one paid tool across platforms and do not want to think about it, this is the one.

Saveddit: included only so you can rule it out. It still loads and it still authorizes, which is exactly what makes it risky. An app nobody has patched since 2022 holding a live token to your account is a worse position than an app that visibly broke.

ContextBolt: ours, and it is last for a reason. It does nothing retroactive. It cannot recover the saves Reddit is already hiding from you, and if that is your problem, use the data export above and stop reading here. What it does is change the model. It captures Reddit saves at the moment you save them, along with your X and LinkedIn saves, tags each one automatically, and searches by meaning rather than keyword, so “that thread about switching to a standing desk” finds the post that never used those words. The free tier covers 150 bookmarks. Pro is $6 a month.

Which alternative should you actually pick?

Three cases cover almost everyone.

If Bookmarkeddit works fine and you are just nervous about it, self-host it or do nothing. Nervousness about a working free tool is not a reason to switch, and the MIT license means the code cannot be taken away from you.

If your saves before number 1,000 are the problem, no app on this list helps. Request the Reddit data export today, because it is the only thing that does, and it takes a few days to arrive.

If you keep hitting the ceiling on new saves, the tool is not the issue, the model is. Reading your saves back later will always be capped. Capturing them as they happen is not.

The test that actually matters

The question people ask about tools like this is “is it still maintained”. It is the wrong test, and Bookmarkeddit is the proof.

A maintained tool can still be a trap. Pocket had a full team, around 30 million users, and it shut down in July 2025 anyway. Meanwhile an unmaintained MIT project with 105 stars can be forked and run by you personally for as long as you care to.

So the better test is two questions. Can you get your data out, and can you run it without the developer. Bookmarkeddit answers the second one perfectly and the first one poorly, which is an unusual and interesting shape for a free tool. RedditManager is the reverse. Dewey answers both, for money.

Whatever you pick, the ceiling stays where it is. Reddit will show any of them your most recent 1,000 saves and nothing before that, and the only real fix is deciding to keep your own copy from now on, in whatever tool you trust to still be around.