install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install karakeep

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#karakeep

nixpkgs 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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

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`	cli	global executable

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 generated2026-07-08

manager version0.32.0

manager updated2026-05-09

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://karakeep.app/

infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://karakeep.app/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:karakeep
Version	0.32.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/karakeep
Homepage	https://karakeep.app/
Repository	https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep
Upstream docs	https://docs.karakeep.app/
License	AGPL-3.0-only
Source archive	https://registry.npmjs.org/@karakeep/cli/-/cli-0.32.0.tgz
Last updated	2026-05-09T20:48:31Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	node
Bottle	available (on all)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	karakeep
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

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

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package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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.

combined/karakeep.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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