# 🗄️ A bookmark is a promise, a saved copy is yours — six free archivers

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/a-bookmark-is-a-promise-a-saved-copy-is-yours-six-free-archivers/326760>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Methods\
**Tags:** tools, programming, freebies\
**Created:** [October 26, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-bookmark-is-a-promise-a-saved-copy-is-yours-six-free-archivers/326760 "2026-10-26T01:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhiteHat](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/whitehat/32/162514_2.png) [@WhiteHat](https://onehack.st/u/WhiteHat)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-bookmark-is-a-promise-a-saved-copy-is-yours-six-free-archivers/326760/1 "2026-10-26T01:57:29Z")

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**A bookmark is a promise the website makes. A saved copy is a promise you keep.** 🗄

Six free tools, told by what they keep.

**Keeps the whole page** — 📦 **[ArchiveBox](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox) · 28.9k★**  
HTML, screenshots, PDF, video. Feed it your browser history and it walks every URL in a headless browser, then builds you a searchable archive on your own disk.

**Keeps your links, and tags them** — 🧠 **[karakeep](https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep) · 30.0k★**  
Bookmarks plus notes, with an AI labelling what you saved this time. Built for people who save fifty links a week and never look again.

**Keeps a screenshot and a PDF of each** — 🔗 **[Linkwarden](https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden) · 20.2k★**  
The one that looks like a product rather than a script, and stays on your server. Good for a shared reading list.

**Keeps one page as one file** — 🖼 **[SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) · 22.7k★**  
A browser extension, no server, no account. The five-minute version: save, drop in a folder, done.

**Keeps the article, readable forever** — 📚 **[wallabag](https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag) · 13.0k★**  
Clean text, no ads, no layout. The escape route for anyone leaving Pocket with a list they refuse to lose.

**Keeps it in a single binary** — 🗃 **[Shiori](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) · 11.7k★**  
Archive and search with no Docker and no database. The answer for a small server or an old machine.

> **Bookmark vs archive**
>
> **The difference that decides everything:**

```auto
bookmark → dies with the site
archive → opens in ten years

```

📌 Tonight: install SingleFile, save the three pages you would hate to lose, put them in a folder. Five minutes and they are yours.