A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
- Beautiful magazine-style reading UI
- Deep publisher partnerships
- Social features for following creators and curators
Flipboard vs Keep
Compare Flipboard and Keep side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
Keep
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
- Markdown output built for AI agents and MCP clients
- Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletters
- Semantic search across everything you've saved
Feature comparison
Here's how Flipboard and Keep compare across the features people actually look for. They share 2 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Bookmarklet | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | |
| Save from email | Forward to in.keep.md | |
| Save tweets | Partial | |
| Save YouTube videos | Partial | With transcripts |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | |
| Save audio files | With Whisper transcription | |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | Partial | |
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto-sync on paid plans; manual import from extension export on free | |
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Partial | |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial |
| Full-text search | Partial | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | |
| Notes | ||
| Tags | ||
| Collections | Magazines | |
| Public sharing | Public magazines | Partial |
| Full-text RSS extraction | ||
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | |
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | Import from and export to any OPML-compatible reader | |
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | |
| Instapaper import | CSV export with folders, archive, and starred state | |
| CSV / JSON export | Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. | |
| Send to Kindle | EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | |
| Import Kindle highlights | From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required |
Pricing
Flipboard is free and Keep is free, paid from $10/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.
- Free
Free
All features free; ad-supported.
Keep
- Free
Free
Unlimited links, browser extension, API/CLI/MCP, RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, and free imports from bookmark export files.
- $10/mo
Plus
500 full-content items per cycle, X bookmarks, email inbox, GitHub sync, uploads, and AI features.
- $20/mo
Pro
1,000 full-content items per cycle, everything in Plus.
- $50/mo
Max
5,000 full-content items per cycle, everything in Pro.
Strengths and weaknesses
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
What Flipboard does well
- Beautiful magazine-style reading UI
- Deep publisher partnerships
- Social features for following creators and curators
- Works entirely for free
Where it falls short
- Not a read-later app; you cannot reliably save arbitrary articles
- Heavy algorithmic curation with little user control
- No tagging, highlighting, or structured export
- Ads throughout the reading experience
What Keep does well
- Markdown output built for AI agents and MCP clients
- Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletters
- Semantic search across everything you've saved
- Public API and Claude Code skill from day one
- Single file importer for Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, Wallabag, OPML, and plain CSV/TSV exports
- Highlight from the browser extension or directly inside the reader, with optional notes rendered inline
- Two-way Kindle: import highlights from My Clippings.txt and send saved items back to your Kindle
Where it falls short
- No native mobile apps yet
About Flipboard
Flipboard is a free social news app, not a power-user reading tool. It curates stories from major publishers and independent creators into magazine-style feeds, with public Flipboard 'magazines' users can create and share. iOS, Android, and web only, no browser extension beyond a bookmarklet, no public API. In recent years Flipboard has leaned into Mastodon and fediverse integration, making it one of the few mainstream apps that speaks ActivityPub. The reader experience is beautiful. The power-user experience is not the point.
About Keep
Keep is a save-anywhere tool built around one idea: everything you capture should be available as clean markdown that an AI agent can read. Articles, tweets, YouTube videos with transcripts, GitHub stars, newsletters, RSS, and plain URLs all land in the same searchable library. People read their library in a clean in-app feed. Agents read it through the API, CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code skill, so Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other tools can work against the library directly. Auto-sync pulls from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletter inboxes on a schedule, so the library stays current without manual work. Free users can also import bookmark exports from Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, Wallabag, Safari, OPML readers, plain CSV/TSV files, and X bookmarks exported by the Keep extension. Semantic search runs across everything you've saved.