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

If you are looking for a Dewey alternative, or deciding between the two, here is the short version: Siloe is a private, Apple-native app (iPhone and Mac) that keeps your saved posts on your device and searches the text inside images and videos, while Dewey is a cloud, browser-based tool (a Chrome extension plus a web dashboard) that reaches the widest set of platforms and is built around public, shareable collections. Both solve the same core problem, your saved posts are scattered across apps and nearly impossible to find later, but they take different shapes. Siloe now imports from six platforms and exports to PDF, JSON, CSV, Notion, and Google Sheets; Dewey still casts the widest net and leans hardest into public sharing and RSS.

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 Apple app for iPhone and Mac, so it lives where most social saving actually happens: on your phone, and now on your desktop too. 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 in a desktop browser. If you primarily save on your phone, Siloe is the more natural home, and the Mac app means you are no longer tied to iOS alone. Dewey runs anywhere a browser does, including Windows and Linux, where Siloe has no app yet, so if you live outside the Apple ecosystem, Dewey still has the reach.

Which platforms each supports

Dewey casts the wider net. It pulls from X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Threads, Mastodon, Substack, Truth, and general web bookmarks. Siloe now covers six: X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, having added LinkedIn and Bluesky to its original four. So the gap has narrowed. If your saves live on Mastodon, Threads, Substack, or the open web, Dewey has you covered today and Siloe does not. If your saving happens on the six 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, resurfacing, and AI

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, Daily Picks resurfaces a curated handful of your saves, and Oppa, Siloe's on-device AI companion, answers questions about your library and surfaces insights across what you have saved. 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 used to be Dewey's clear win, and the gap has closed a lot. Siloe now exports your library to PDF, JSON, and CSV, and syncs to Notion and Google Sheets, so your saves can feed a research database or a spreadsheet just like Dewey's do. Where Dewey still leads is public, web-native sharing: it generates RSS feeds, publishes public collections via shareable URLs, and exposes a few more formats and media exports than Siloe. So the decision is narrower than it was. If you need Notion or Sheets sync and clean file exports, Siloe now does that on a private, on-device base. If you need public reading lists, shareable collection URLs, or RSS, Dewey remains the pick.

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 $49.99/year (about $4.17/month), $6.99/month billed monthly, or a $199.99 one-time lifetime, adding smarter and semantic search, duplicate detection, file exports, and Notion and Google Sheets sync. 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 is the cheaper pick either way: less per year, and less to own outright ($199.99 versus $225).

Who Siloe is best for

• You save mostly on your iPhone or Mac and want an app that lives there, not in a browser.
• 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, resurfacing, and AI insights, not just storage.
• You still want export and integrations (PDF, JSON, CSV, Notion, Google Sheets) when you need them.
• You would rather pay once: Siloe Pro has a $199.99 lifetime option, no subscription.

Who Dewey is best for

• You work from a desktop or browser (including Windows or Linux).
• You need the widest platform coverage, like Mastodon, Threads, Substack, and general web.
• You want public, shareable collections or RSS feeds that others can read.
• You want the broadest set of export formats, media exports, and RSS.

Can you use both?

You can. Some people use Dewey on a desktop for public collections and the widest platform coverage, and Siloe on their phone and Mac 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 or Mac and want those saves private, deeply searchable (including the text inside images), resurfaced, and exportable to your other tools, choose Siloe. If you live in the browser and need the widest platform coverage plus public, shareable collections and RSS, choose Dewey. They are aimed at different people, and the right pick depends on your workflow.

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