macOS
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Install karakeep with Homebrew, Nix
CLI tool for self-hostable bookmark-everything app karakeep. Version 0.33.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-03. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#karakeep.
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Linux
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nix profile install nixpkgs#karakeepnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
CLI tool for self-hostable bookmark-everything app karakeep
Project links
Commands and aliases
- karakeep
history
Project history and usage
Karakeep is the renamed Hoarder project: a self-hosted bookmark, note, and media capture app with full-text search, AI-assisted tagging, and an official CLI.
Project history
The project began publicly as Hoarder and later rebranded to Karakeep. Its repository README describes the renamed project as a self-hostable bookmark-everything app, and its migration documentation explains the move from hoarder-app container images to karakeep-app images.
Adoption history
Karakeep grew in the self-hosted software community because it combined link saving, notes, PDFs, images, browser extensions, mobile apps, REST APIs, and local-model-friendly AI features. The January 5, 2025 release announcement for Hoarder 0.21.0 described the project reaching 10,000 GitHub stars and receiving Hacker News front-page exposure.
How it is used
Users deploy the server, save links or files through the web UI, browser extensions, mobile apps, API clients, or CLI, and use search, lists, tags, OCR, RSS imports, and summarization to manage the saved collection. The Homebrew package covers the CLI side of that larger self-hosted application.
Why package nerds care
Karakeep is interesting as a package because the installable CLI trails a fast-moving self-hosted web app and a project rename. Package maintainers had to track not only releases, but also changed GitHub organization names, container image names, documentation domains, and the older Hoarder identity still present in community memory.
Timeline
- 2024: v0.1.0 was published on February 20 under the Hoarder project lineage.
- 2025: The 0.21.0 announcement on January 5 described Hoarder reaching 10,000 GitHub stars and Hacker News front-page exposure.
- 2025: Hoarder-to-Karakeep migration documentation instructed users to update container image references from ghcr.io/hoarder-app/hoarder to ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep.
Related projects
- Hoarder is the former project name and migration source.
- SingleFile, Ollama, browser extensions, mobile apps, and REST API clients are part of the broader capture and automation ecosystem around Karakeep.
- Omnivore appears in Karakeep release notes as an import source for users moving read-it-later data.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for karakeep. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
karakeep | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.33.0
manager updated2026-08-03
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:karakeep |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.33.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://karakeep.app/ |
| Last updated | 2026-08-03T00:17:47Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
karakeep
nix profile install nixpkgs#karakeep- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Karakeep
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation