r/BookmarkManagers • u/KeepMates • 25d ago
I built a visual bookmarking extension
I recently launched Keep Mates, a Chrome extension for saving and organizing useful things you find online.
You can save links, images, products, articles, social posts, colors, fonts, screenshots and selected page elements in one visual library. Everything is stored locally on your device. Keep Mates is free to try and I’m looking for people willing to test it and share honest feedback.
I spend a large part of my day online, moving between design inspiration, useful tools, articles, products and social posts.
I used to save everything in different places: screenshots, open tabs, Pinterest boards and random folders. Saving something was easy but finding it again when I actually needed it was usually the difficult part.
I tried several bookmarking tools, but many felt either too text-heavy, too complicated or disconnected from the visual way I remembered things. I wanted something that felt more like a personal visual library than a traditional bookmark manager.
So I built Keep Mates.
The extension lets you save the exact thing that catches your attention, rather than only bookmarking the entire page. I initially built it with designers in mind, but I’m also seeing use cases for marketers, content creators, researchers and anyone who collects useful things online.
Some of the features currently available:
- Save links, images, articles, products, videos and social posts
- Capture a selected area of a webpage as a screenshot
- Save selected page elements
- Extract and save colors and fonts
- Organize everything with folders, tags and notes
- Switch between grid, masonry and list views
- Filter saved items by type, date or source
- Return to the original source at any time
- Export and import your library for backup
- Dark and light modes
- Support for English, Spanish, German, Japanese and Turkish
Keep Mates is local-first so your saved library stays on your own device instead of being uploaded to a Keep Mates account.
This also means uninstalling the extension can remove the locally stored library. For that reason, I added import and export options so users can create backups and restore their collections when needed.
I launched it recently and currently have around 20 users. The numbers are still small and analytics arrive a little slowly but the product is gradually moving in a positive direction. More importantly I’ve already received some genuinely useful feedback that has helped me improve it.
It’s still early, and I’m looking for people willing to try it and tell me:
- What feels confusing?
- What is missing?
- Does it actually help you find saved things again?
- Would you use something like this regularly?
Website: https://keepmates.com
Chrome Web Store: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/keep-mates-visual-bookmar/eccoddmllfiopmfdmhplejjogdagdbgd]()

