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Faved

A private open-source bookmark manager built to handle large collections and advanced use cases. Optimized for ease-of-use and efficiency.

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Features

🏷️ Advanced Tagging

  • Organize bookmarks with nested tags for structured grouping (e.g., place Go and Python under Programming Languages → Backend)
  • Customize tags with color and description (icons — coming soon)
  • Search and filter tags directly from the sidebar
  • Optional tag rollup to include items from child tags
  • Pin frequently used tags for quick access

🤖 Smart Bookmark Management

  • Automatic fetching of titles, descriptions, and preview images
  • Duplicate detection when adding bookmarks
  • Automated tagging (planned)

⚡ Powerful UI Designed for Efficiency

  • All major actions — bookmark and tag search, filtering, and editing — in one click away with no need to navigate between screens
  • Fully responsive — works perfectly on mobile, tablet, and desktop
  • Installable as a PWA for an app-like, near-native experience on mobile
  • System-synced Light/Dark mode
  • Instant search and flexible sorting
  • Bulk actions (deleting, refetching, tagging)
  • Customizable layouts (card/list/table), fields, and sidebar

🔗 Integrations

  • Lightweight browser bookmarklet — save securely from any browser without extensions
  • Apple Shortcuts — integrate into native share sheet on iOS/MacOS/iPadOS
  • Browser extensions (planned)

📥 Import & Migration

  • Import from Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge with the original folder structure preserved thanks to nested tags
  • Migrate from Raindrop.io, Pocket, and other tools retaining original collections, tags and other data

Overview video

faved-demo.mp4

Get started

  • Self-host for free with no external dependencies. All data is stored locally.
  • Start in the Cloud with zero setup, automatic backups and support. Your data is secured with encryption.

Documentation

Project Structure

  • /controllers: Application controllers
  • /frontend: React frontend source files
  • /framework: Core framework components
  • /models: Data models
  • /public: Web-accessible files
  • /storage: Database storage
  • /utils: Utility classes
  • /views: HTML templates

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

Faved uses only open source packages:

  • TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Shadcn UI and Vite for the frontend.
  • PHP 8, SQLite and Apache for the backend.