

A local-first bookmark manager for people who actually want to find things again
Browser bookmarks are great for saving things, but not always great for finding them later.
Articles, tutorials, tools, videos, snippets, design inspiration — after a while, everything ends up buried inside folders.
That’s what Cairn is trying to solve.
Instead of treating bookmarks as just saved links, Cairn turns them into a searchable personal library.
You can:
- save full webpages
- save selected text
- save links and images
- save YouTube and Vimeo pages
- add notes and highlights
- organize items with collections and nested collections
- use tags, favorites, and archive
- search across titles, URLs, notes, tags, metadata, and article text
Cairn is also local-first.
No account is required, and saved content stays in the browser instead of being uploaded to a server.
The latest version also expands the new-tab experience with:
- recently saved items
- Rediscover for resurfacing older saves
- pinned collections
- inbox for unsorted items
- quick links
- scratchpad
- local to-do list
- optional weather
- Liquid Glass theme
- browser-default search engine support
The main goal is simple: make saved content useful after the moment you bookmark it.
Curious what people here value most in a bookmark manager:
Search, tags, collections, full-text indexing, automatic resurfacing, or something else?
Unify Browse Cairn: https://unifybrowse.com/cairn
Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cairn/dplabknlgbedjnibipcgagjmamecmicj
Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cairn