# Install karakeep with Homebrew, Nix

CLI tool for self-hostable bookmark-everything app karakeep. Version 0.32.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-09.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:karakeep
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install karakeep
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#karakeep
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:karakeep
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/karakeep>
- **Version:** 0.32.0
- **Source summary:** CLI tool for self-hostable bookmark-everything app 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
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- karakeep (cli)
- karakeep (alias)

## Dependencies

- node

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.32.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-09
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://karakeep.app/
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## 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

- <https://docs.karakeep.app/administration/hoarder-to-karakeep-migration/>
- <https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep>
- <https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/discussions/830>
- <https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/releases>


## Security Notes

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.


## 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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - karakeep: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ka/karakeep/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db.
- [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider.
- [node](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/node/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [nb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bookmarks, cli, notes, productivity.
- [yuque-dl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/yuque-dl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, knowledge-management, productivity.
- [apparix](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/apparix/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bookmarks, cli, productivity.
- [bkmr](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bkmr/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bookmarks, cli, productivity.
- [buku](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/buku/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bookmarks, cli, productivity.
- [cdargs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cdargs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bookmarks, cli, productivity.
- [cherrytree](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cherrytree/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, notes, productivity.
- [dnote](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dnote/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, knowledge-management, notes, productivity.
- [openclaw-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openclaw-cli/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, hosted, node, productivity, self.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/karakeep.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/karakeep.yml)


## Sources

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