Karakeep
★ 27.3kA self-hosted alternative to Notion, Evernote
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid3 Containers — 3 containers — light hosting footprintDockerNo external DB
About
Karakeep, previously known as Hoarder, is a self-hostable bookmarking and knowledge-capture application aimed at people who collect links, notes, images, and documents for later use. It is designed...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- bookmark links
- simple notes
- store images and PDFs
- automatic link metadata fetching
- lists and collaboration
- full-text search
- LLM tagging and summarization
- REST API
- OCR from images
- browser extensions
Details
- Last Updated
- Jul 12, 2026
- Created
- Feb 6, 2024
- Install Methods
- docker
- Requirements
- NextJSDrizzleNextAuthtRPCPuppeteerOpenAIMeilisearch
- Authentication
- oidc-ssolocal
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- native-export
- Runtime / Stack
- Docker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓3 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 3 containers
Docker Compose
3 services · infra: meilisearch · 1 unclassified (alpine-chrome)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (2 volumes)
docker/docker-compose.yml · @ 4af8bb2 · scanned Jul 8, 2026
services:
web:
image: ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:${KARAKEEP_VERSION:-release}
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
# By default, the data is stored in a docker volume called "data".
# If you want to mount a custom directory, change the volume mapping to:
# - /path/to/your/directory:/data
- data:/data
ports:
- 3000:3000
env_file:
- .env
environment:
MEILI_ADDR: http://meilisearch:7700
BROWSER_WEB_URL: http://chrome:9222
# OPENAI_API_KEY: ...
# You almost never want to change the value of the DATA_DIR variable.
# If you want to mount a custom directory, change the volume mapping above instead.
# ...
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