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title: "Keep vs Raindrop: feature and pricing comparison | Keep"
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# Keep vs Raindrop

Compare Keep and Raindrop side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.

### Keep

Save anything as Markdown your AI agents can search, including articles, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes.

Free, paid from $5/mo

-   Everything you save becomes clean Markdown
-   MCP and CLI search across notes and saved sources
-   Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, GitHub, email, and optional X bookmarks

### Raindrop

All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.

Free, paid from $3/mo

-   Best-in-class UI for organising a large library of saves
-   Nested collections and tags for serious curators
-   Native apps on every major platform including browsers

## Feature comparison

Here's how Keep and Raindrop compare across the features people actually look for. They share 15 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.

| Feature | Keep | Raindrop |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capture and save |  |  |
| Browser extension | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge |
| Mobile apps | × | ✓iOS, Android |
| Save from email | ✓Forward to in.keep.md | × |
| Save tweets | ✓ | −Partial |
| Save YouTube videos | ✓With transcripts | −Partial |
| Save GitHub stars | ✓ | × |
| Save PDFs | ✓Converted to markdown | ✓Full-text search Pro only |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | ✓Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | ✓PDF, EPUB, images, video |
| Save audio files | ✓With Whisper transcription | ✓mp3, wav, aiff, flac |
| Save via API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-sync sources |  |  |
| RSS auto-sync | ✓ | −Via IFTTT applet |
| YouTube channel sync | ✓ | × |
| X bookmarks sync | ✓Automatic sync is a $5/month add-on. Manual CSV or JSON import on every plan. | × |
| GitHub stars sync | ✓ | × |
| Newsletter inbox sync | ✓ | × |
| Library and reading |  |  |
| Reader view | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline reading | −Partial | × |
| Full-text search | ✓ | −Pro |
| Semantic / AI search | ✓ | −Pro (Stella) |
| Highlights | ✓Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | ✓ |
| Notes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tags | ✓ | ✓ |
| Collections | ✓ | ✓Nested |
| Public sharing | −Partial | ✓ |
| Full-text RSS extraction | ✓ | × |
| AI and agents |  |  |
| Markdown export for AI agents | ✓Per-item .md URL | × |
| Bulk markdown export | ✓ | × |
| MCP server | ✓ | ✓Official server |
| CLI tool | ✓keep npm package | × |
| Claude Code skill | ✓ | × |
| AI summaries | ✓AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | ✓Pro (Stella) |
| 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. | −HTML, CSV, TXT only |
| Send to Kindle | ✓EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | × |
| Import Kindle highlights | ✓From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required | × |

## Pricing

Keep is free, paid from $5/mo and Raindrop is free, paid from $3/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.

### Keep

Starter

Bookmark saves from the web app and browser extension, plus a limited note library.

Free

Personal

Full-content Markdown, search, sources, automations, MCP, CLI, API, and export. Also available as a one-time lifetime purchase.

$10/mo

X bookmark sync

Optional add-on. Automatic private X bookmark sync. Requires Personal.

$5/mo

### Raindrop

Free

Unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags, sync devices. 100 MB/month uploads.

Free

Pro

Full-text search, permanent web archive, 10 GB/month uploads, Stella AI assistant, annotations on highlights.

$3/mo

## 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 Keep does well

-   Everything you save becomes clean Markdown
-   MCP and CLI search across notes and saved sources
-   Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, GitHub, email, and optional X bookmarks
-   Full markdown export for the whole library
-   Imports Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore, Raindrop, Pinboard, Wallabag, OPML, CSV, and JSON
-   Highlights from the browser extension or the reader
-   Send saved items to Kindle and import My Clippings.txt

### Where it falls short

-   No native mobile apps yet

### What Raindrop does well

-   Best-in-class UI for organising a large library of saves
-   Nested collections and tags for serious curators
-   Native apps on every major platform including browsers
-   Genuinely usable free tier with unlimited saves
-   Official MCP server for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and more

### Where it falls short

-   Not a reading app; reader view is secondary
-   Export formats limited to HTML, CSV, and TXT (no markdown or JSON)
-   No native RSS subscription or newsletter intake
-   Highlights are basic compared to Readwise Reader or Matter

## About Keep

Keep saves articles, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes as clean Markdown. You can read the library yourself, search it, export it, or let Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and other clients use the same context over MCP or CLI. Starter is free for bookmark saves and a limited note library. Personal is $10/month and adds full-content Markdown, search, sources, automations, and agent access. X bookmark sync is a $5 add-on for automatic private bookmark import.

## About Raindrop

Raindrop is a bookmark manager with polished apps on every major platform, a generous free tier with unlimited bookmarks, and a surprisingly thorough AI layer for Pro users. Pro is $3/mo ($28/yr) and unlocks full-text search across saved pages and PDFs, the Stella AI assistant, a permanent web archive, reminders, and annotations on highlights. Highlights themselves are free on every tier. The product quietly got ambitious on AI in 2025. There's an official MCP server at /rest/v2/ai/mcp that works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code with Copilot, Windsurf, and Zed, plus an open REST API with OAuth and token auth.

## Start Keep for free

Save useful context as Markdown. Search it yourself, or let your agents use it over MCP and CLI.

[Start for free](https://app.keep.md/signup?utm_source=keep.md&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=compare-keep-vs-raindrop)

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