Faved

A private open-source bookmark manager built to handle large collections and advanced use cases. Optimized for ease-of-use and efficiency.

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Features

🏷️ Advanced Tagging

• Organize bookmarks with nested tags for structured grouping (e.g., place Go and Python under Programming Languages → Backend)
• Customize tags with color and description (icons — coming soon)
• Search and filter tags directly from the sidebar
• Optional tag rollup to include items from child tags
• Pin frequently used tags for quick access

🤖 Smart Bookmark Management

• Automatic fetching of titles, descriptions, and preview images
• Duplicate detection when adding bookmarks
• Automated tagging (planned)

⚡ Powerful UI Designed for Efficiency

• All major actions — bookmark and tag search, filtering, and editing — in one click away with no need to navigate between screens
• Fully responsive — works perfectly on mobile, tablet, and desktop
• Installable as a PWA for an app-like, near-native experience on mobile
• System-synced Light/Dark mode
• Instant search and flexible sorting
• Bulk actions (deleting, refetching, tagging)
• Customizable layouts (card/list/table), fields, and sidebar

🔗 Integrations

• Lightweight browser bookmarklet — save securely from any browser without extensions
• Apple Shortcuts — integrate into native share sheet on iOS/MacOS/iPadOS
• Browser extensions (planned)

📥 Import & Migration

• Import from Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge with the original folder structure preserved thanks to nested tags
• Migrate from Raindrop.io, Pocket, and other tools retaining original collections, tags and other data

Overview video

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ecbf26a-9ed8-49d9-a5ce-33d471c06fdf

Get started

• Self-host for free with no external dependencies. All data is stored locally.
• Start in the Cloud with zero setup, automatic backups and support. Your data is secured with encryption.

Documentation

• Introduction
• Installation
• Updating
• Installing as a PWA app
• Using browser bookmarklet
• Saving with Apple shortcut
• Adding and editing bookmarks
• Importing bookmarks
• Organizing with tags
• Finding and viewing bookmarks
• Bulk actions
• Changelog

Project Structure

• /controllers: Application controllers
• /frontend: React frontend source files
• /framework: Core framework components
• /models: Data models
• /public: Web-accessible files
• /storage: Database storage
• /utils: Utility classes
• /views: HTML templates

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

Faved uses only open source packages:

• TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Shadcn UI and Vite for the frontend.
• PHP 8, SQLite and Apache for the backend.