Built on a treadmill · Ships to your desktop

Stop saving links. Start finding them.

Drag a browser shortcut in. AI reads it, writes a summary, assigns a category. Your entire link library — searchable in seconds. Local. Private. $5 once.

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One-time payment · No subscription · 100% local · VPN safe · Open source

Bookmark Brain — 187 bookmarks, 16 categories, fully searchable

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The Origin

Born on a
Treadmill.

It started with eleven words sent to an AI mid-run. "I have so many shortcuts I can't find the ones I want or recall what they're all for."

The most relatable unsolved problem in digital work. Browser bookmarks — a mess. Desktop shortcuts — a graveyard. Notes apps full of URLs with zero context.

"You know you saved it. You know it exists somewhere. But you're never finding it again."

No waitlist. No roadmap. One conversation, one working Mac app. Built on a treadmill. Finished before the cool-down.

How it works

FOUR STEPS. ZERO FRICTION.

01 📎

Drag a shortcut in

Drop any .webloc or .url shortcut file into the app. Batch import hundreds at once from Finder.

02 🤖

AI reads the link

Claude Haiku analyses the URL and title, writes a plain-English summary of what the page is actually for.

03 🏷️

Auto-categorised

Every bookmark gets a category and tags automatically. No folders. No manual sorting. Ever.

04 🔍

Find anything instantly

Search titles, summaries, tags, domains. Filter by category. That half-remembered link? Found.

Real app. Real data.

187 bookmarks.
16 categories.
All searchable.

This is the actual app running on a real machine. 187 links saved, categorised, and summarised. Every single one findable in under a second.

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🔒

Fully local & private

Your database lives on your Mac. Only the URL and title go to Anthropic for summarisation. Nothing else leaves your machine.

🌐

VPN & offline safe

Runs on localhost — a loopback address that never touches your network. Works anywhere, on any VPN, even airplane mode.

📦

Batch import

Select hundreds of shortcut files in Finder and drag them all at once. Clear your entire backlog in one go.

☁️

Google Drive sync

Move your database file to Drive. Your library follows you across every Mac you own, automatically.

⚡

Double-click to launch

A proper Mac .app in your Dock. No terminal ever. Paste your API key once on first launch — done forever.

💻

Open source

Full MIT source on GitHub. $5 for the packaged convenience. Self-build for free. You choose.

Pricing

LESS THAN A COFFEE.

$5 once. No monthly fee, no renewals, no seat pricing. Pay once, use forever. All future updates included.

Recommended

Mac App — Ready to run

$ 5

one-time · yours forever

Double-click Mac .app
AI summaries & auto-tags
Unlimited bookmarks
Instant search
All future updates
Source code on GitHub

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Self-build — Developer

Free

clone & run yourself

Full MIT source on GitHub
Python + Flask + SQLite
All the same features
No packaged .app
Requires Terminal setup
No update notifications

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💡 Running cost: You pay Anthropic directly for AI processing via your own API key. ~$0.01 per 500 bookmarks. After that, searching and browsing costs nothing — it's all local.

🧠

Your links. Finally organised.

Download. Double-click. Paste your key. Drag your first shortcut in. That's the whole story.

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