Siloe vs Raindrop: Which Bookmark Manager Fits How You Save?
Raindrop and Siloe are both excellent at saving things, but they are built for different jobs. Raindrop is a mature, cross-platform manager for web bookmarks: you clip a URL, an article, or a page, and it lives in a tidy, searchable, archived library on every device you own. Siloe is built for the posts you already save inside social apps: it imports your saves from X, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram into one private library on your iPhone, and searches them, including the text inside images and videos.
Raindrop is where you put the links you find. Siloe is where the posts you tapped "save" on actually go. That difference shapes everything below.
| Siloe | Raindrop | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Posts you save inside social apps | Web links and pages you clip |
| Platforms | iOS (Android coming) | Web, browser extensions, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows |
| How things get in | Native import of your saved posts (X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram) | You save URLs via extension, share sheet, or app |
| Search inside images & video (OCR) | Yes, on-device | No (full-text search of saved web pages and PDFs on Pro) |
| Where your data lives | On your device by default | Cloud (encrypted, not sold, open-source apps) |
| Reminders & resurfacing | Reminders + Daily Picks | Not a focus |
| Archiving & collaboration | Private in-app library; share as image | Permanent copies, public collections, shared collaboration |
| Price | Free; Pro $60/yr or $7/mo | Free (generous); Pro $30/yr or $3/mo |
The core difference: links you clip vs posts you saved
This is the whole thing. Raindrop is built around the act of clipping: you find a web page worth keeping, hit the extension or the share sheet, and Raindrop files the URL away. It is superb at that. Siloe is built around the saves you have already made inside social apps. Your Reddit saved tab, your X bookmarks, your TikTok and Instagram saves get imported natively, without you re-clipping each one. If your problem is "I tap save in five different apps and never see any of it again," that is Siloe's reason to exist. If your problem is "I want one clean home for the web pages I bookmark," that is Raindrop's.
Platforms
Raindrop is everywhere: a web app, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, plus native apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, macOS, and Windows. Siloe is iOS today, with Android on the way. If you bookmark from a desktop browser or split your time across operating systems, Raindrop has the wider reach. If your saving happens on your phone, inside the social apps themselves, Siloe meets you there.
What counts as searchable
Both have strong search, aimed at different content. Raindrop Pro makes the full text of every saved web page and PDF searchable, which is excellent for a research library of articles. Siloe searches your social saves by words, usernames, and flairs, and uses on-device OCR to find the words inside images and videos. A screenshot, a meme, a recipe in a photo, a frame of a TikTok: Siloe can find it by its text. The right tool depends on whether your saves are mostly articles or mostly visual social posts.
Privacy and where your data lives
Both take privacy seriously, in different ways. Raindrop is cloud-based but has a strong privacy track record: encrypted, no ads or trackers, your data is not sold, and its apps are open-source. Siloe keeps your bookmarks on your device by default, and only sends them out encrypted when a feature like sync or AI needs them, never to be sold or used to train models. If you want your library reachable from any browser, Raindrop's cloud is the point. If you want your saves to stay on your phone by default, Siloe is built that way.
Organizing, archiving, and resurfacing
Raindrop is a deep organization and archival tool: nested collections, tags, highlights, multiple views, duplicate and broken-link detection, permanent archived copies of pages, public collections, and collaboration. It is a librarian. Siloe leans the other way, toward actually coming back to what you saved: Collections and flairs to organize, reminders on any post from twelve minutes to twelve years out, Daily Picks to resurface things you forgot, and an AI companion that answers questions about your library. Raindrop helps you file; Siloe helps you return.
Pricing
Raindrop is the cheaper option, and its free plan is generous: unlimited bookmarks, collections, and devices, with Pro (full-text search, permanent copies, more upload space, and backups) at $30 per year, or $3 per month. Siloe's free plan includes unlimited bookmarks, up to 25 Collections, up to three linked profiles, on-device OCR search, and reminders, and Siloe Pro is $60 per year (about $5 per month) or $7 per month billed monthly. If price is the deciding factor, Raindrop wins. If native social import, OCR search, and on-device privacy are what you need, that is what you are paying Siloe for.
Who Siloe is best for
- Most of what you save lives inside social apps (Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram), not as web links.
- You want those saves imported automatically, not re-clipped one by one.
- A lot of your saves are visual, and searching the text inside images and video matters.
- You want your library on-device, with reminders and resurfacing so you actually revisit it.
- You are iPhone-first.
Who Raindrop is best for
- You mostly save web pages and articles, not social posts.
- You bookmark across many devices and operating systems, including desktop browsers.
- You want archiving, full-text page search, and collaboration (shared and public collections).
- You want a mature, low-cost tool with a generous free tier.
Can you use both?
Plenty of people do, because they do different jobs. Raindrop holds the web pages and articles you clip; Siloe holds the posts you saved inside social apps. If you are also weighing browser-based social bookmark tools, see our Siloe vs Dewey comparison or our guide to the best social bookmark managers for iOS.
The bottom line
Raindrop is the better general-purpose, cross-platform manager for the web links you clip, and it is cheaper. Siloe is purpose-built for the social posts you already save, with native import, OCR search of images and video, on-device privacy, and reminders that bring you back. Pick Raindrop for a cross-platform web library; pick Siloe to finally make your social saves searchable and useful on your iPhone.
If that second description fits how you save, Siloe is free on the App Store.