Siloe vs Dewey: Which Bookmark Manager Is Right for You?

Siloe and Dewey solve the same core problem. Your saved posts are scattered across apps and nearly impossible to find later. But the two tools take very different shapes. Siloe is a private, iOS-native app that imports your saves from X, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram and makes them searchable on your device, including the text inside images and videos. Dewey is a browser-based tool (a Chrome extension plus a web dashboard) that supports more platforms and leans hard into export, sharing, and integrations.

Which one fits depends mostly on where you save and what you want to do next. The rest of this breaks down where each one wins.

Where each one lives

This is the biggest practical difference. Siloe is a native iOS app, so it lives where most social saving actually happens: on your phone. You save, search, organize, and get reminders without leaving your device. Dewey is a Chrome extension paired with a web dashboard, with no native mobile app, so it is at its best on a desktop or laptop browser. If you primarily save on your phone, Siloe is the more natural home. If you triage bookmarks from a computer, Dewey fits that workflow well, and it runs anywhere a browser does, including Windows and Linux, where Siloe has no app yet.

Which platforms each supports

Dewey casts a wider net. It pulls from X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Threads, Mastodon, Substack, Truth, and general web bookmarks. Siloe focuses on the four big social and visual platforms: X, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram. If your saves live on LinkedIn or Bluesky, Dewey has you covered today and Siloe does not. If your saving happens on the four platforms Siloe supports, the depth of what it does with them (below) matters more than raw platform count.

What counts as searchable

Both let you search across everything you have saved. The difference is what is searchable. Dewey indexes the bookmark text, tags, authors, and your notes. Siloe does that too, and then goes further: it runs on-device OCR so the words inside images and videos are searchable. A recipe screenshot, a meme with text, a slide from a video: Siloe can find any of them by their words. For people whose saves are mostly visual (TikTok, Instagram, screenshots), that is often the deciding feature.

Privacy and where your data lives

Siloe keeps your bookmarks on your device by default. When a feature like sync or AI needs them, they travel encrypted, are processed briefly, and are never sold or used to train models. Dewey is a cloud service, so your library lives in your Dewey account on their servers, which is what enables its web dashboard, public collections, and integrations. Neither approach is wrong; they are different trade-offs. If on-device privacy is a priority, Siloe is built around it. If you want your library reachable from any browser and pipeable into other tools, Dewey's cloud model is the point.

Reminders and resurfacing

Saving is easy; coming back is the hard part. Siloe leans into that: you can set a reminder on any saved post from twelve minutes to twelve years out, and Daily Picks resurfaces a curated handful of your saves so they do not vanish into a pile. Dewey is built more around organizing and exporting at scale, including AI bulk-tagging, than around nudging you back to individual posts. If your problem is "I save things and never look at them again," Siloe is aimed squarely at it.

Export, sharing, and integrations

This is where Dewey is clearly stronger. It exports to CSV, PDF, Google Sheets, and media files, generates RSS feeds, publishes public collections via shareable URLs, and syncs to Notion. If your bookmarks are an input to other workflows, like a research database in Notion, a public reading list, or a spreadsheet, Dewey is built for that. Siloe is intentionally more of a private, in-app reading home: you can share any saved post as a polished image, but it is not an export and integration hub. If portability and integrations are central to how you work, Dewey wins this category outright.

Pricing

Both are free to start. Siloe's free plan includes unlimited bookmarks, up to 25 Collections, up to three linked profiles, on-device OCR search, and reminders. Siloe Pro is $60/year (about $5/month) or $7/month billed monthly, adding smarter and semantic search, duplicate detection, and more. Dewey's free plan covers one connected account. Dewey Pro is $90/year (about $7.50/month) or $10/month for unlimited accounts and the Notion and Sheets integrations, with a $225 one-time lifetime option. Siloe Pro is the cheaper subscription; Dewey is the one to look at if you prefer a single lifetime payment.

Who Siloe is best for

• You save mostly on your iPhone and want an app that lives there.
• You want your saved posts private and on-device, not in a cloud account.
• A lot of what you save is visual, and searching the text inside images and videos matters.
• Your real problem is revisiting what you saved, with reminders and resurfacing, not just storage.
• You want a calm reading home, not a power-user dashboard.

Who Dewey is best for

• You work from a desktop or browser (including Windows or Linux).
• You need broad platform coverage, like LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Substack.
• Your bookmarks feed other tools: Notion, Google Sheets, RSS, or public collections.
• You want heavy export options (CSV, PDF, media) or a one-time lifetime price.

Can you use both?

You can. Some people use Dewey on a desktop for export and Notion syncing, and Siloe on their phone for a private, searchable library they actually revisit. But most people land on the one that matches where they save: if that is your phone, Siloe; if that is your browser, Dewey. If you are weighing other options, see our Siloe vs Raindrop comparison or our guide to the best social bookmark managers for iOS.

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The bottom line

If you save mostly on your iPhone and want those saves private, deeply searchable (including the text inside images), and actually resurfaced, choose Siloe. If you live in the browser and need broad platform coverage plus serious export and integrations, choose Dewey. They are aimed at different people, and the right pick depends on your workflow.

If the iPhone-first, private, search-everything description sounds like you, Siloe is free on the App Store.