The best Raindrop alternatives

Best for: Apple users who want a native, iCloud-synced bookmark manager to replace their browser's bookmarks.

Anybox is a native Mac, iPhone and iPad app built to replace scattered browser bookmarks. It saves links, images, files and notes, can archive a page as a PDF, web archive or screenshot, and syncs through your own iCloud rather than a company's servers, with fast offline search and Spotlight integration. The free tier is capped at 50 links; Pro removes the cap for a small subscription or a one-time $39.99. Like Muse it stays inside the Apple ecosystem, so there is no web or Android app.

Best for: Designers and heavy visual collectors who want a local library of images and design files.

Eagle is a mature visual asset manager for Mac and Windows. It is built to organise images, screenshots, video, audio, fonts and other design files, with search by colour, tag, shape and format, plus folders and smart folders. Your library is a local folder you control, which you can sync yourself through Dropbox or iCloud. It can save web links with screenshots too, but links are secondary to visual assets, and the app is Electron rather than fully native. See our Muse vs Eagle comparison for a closer look.

Best for: People who want fast, private, no-frills bookmarking and never want to see an image grid.

Pinboard is deliberately minimalist, text-only bookmarking that has run quietly since 2009. It is fast, private and low-maintenance, with tags and a clean list. There is no official native app, so you use it in a browser or a third-party client, and full-text search and permanent page copies only come with the pricier archival tier. It is links only, so images, video and files are not part of the model.

Best for: People who want an AI second brain that organises itself and never asks them to make folders.

mymind is a private, AI-driven "visual memory" for links, images, notes, quotes, screenshots, colours and video. It auto-tags everything, recognises what is in an image, reads text inside images and offers visual search, on the principle that you should never have to file anything. It is cloud-based and private, with apps on web, Mac, iOS and Android. The trade-offs are a subscription with no free tier and deliberately limited manual organising and export. Our Muse vs MyMind page goes deeper.

Best for: Apple users who mainly want a read-later app for articles, not a whole media library.

GoodLinks is a focused read-later app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It saves articles and links, strips the clutter for a clean reader, and keeps highlights, notes, tags and your reading position, with full-content search and offline reading. It stores data locally and syncs through your own iCloud, and it is a one-time purchase of about $9.99 across all your Apple devices. It is article-focused, so it is not the tool for images, video or files.

Best for: Researchers and creatives who want to connect ideas into shared collections, calmly and without an algorithm.

Are.na is a visual research tool built around saving "blocks" into "channels" and connecting them across projects. It is calm and non-algorithmic, good for slow research, mood-building and collaboration, and it can be public or private. It runs on the web and iOS, is cloud-based, and offers a free tier capped at 200 total blocks with an unlimited Premium plan. It leans away from heavy AI on purpose, so it is about connection and curation rather than automatic tagging.