Karakeep App vs Ribbon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
Ribbon
This app provides a native iOS interface for managing your self-hosted Linkding bookmarks. Browse, search, and save links with ease, keeping your data securely on your own server. Organize with tags and bundles, and leverage convenient features like share extensions and clipboard detection.
- Browse bookmarks with filter pills
- Search active and archived bookmarks
- Add bookmarks with prefill
- Save from Safari via share extension
- Clipboard URL detection
- Organize with tags and bundles
- Swipe actions for editing
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Ribbon is a native iPhone and iPad app for Linkding, the fast, self-hosted bookmark manager. Browse, search, and save your bookmarks from anywhere — your data stays on your server, always. Features - Browse your bookmarks with filter pills: All, Unread, Untagged, and Archived - Search across active and archived bookmarks simultaneously - Add bookmarks with automatic title and description prefill - Save from Safari or any app with the share extension - Clipboard detection — Ribbon offers to use a URL you already copied - Organize with tags and smart Bundles - Archive, edit, and delete with swipe actions or press-and-hold menus - Bulk actions — archive, delete, tag, or mark multiple bookmarks at once - Secure credential storage in the iOS Keychain Requirements Ribbon requires a running Linkding instance. Linkding is a free, open-source bookmark manager you self-host on your own server or NAS. Visit linkding.link to get started. Your Linkding API token can be found under Settings → API Access in your Linkding instance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Karakeep App at Free against Ribbon's $2.99. Karakeep App also leads on ratings volume (44 vs 6). Ribbon's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Karakeep App is free to download; Ribbon costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ribbon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Karakeep App has 44 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Karakeep App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ribbon's.
Karakeep App ships an update every 5 weeks, Ribbon weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Karakeep App | Ribbon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #175 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamed Bassem | Cory Dransfeldt |
Customer experience
Karakeep App
Ribbon
In-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
Ribbon
No in-app purchases
