Bookmark Maestro – Dedupe, URL & Link Cleaner

Bookmark manager that removes duplicates, broken links & empty folders — and strips UTM/tracking parameters from URLs. 100% local.

📌 Bookmark Maestro — Clean Up & Organize Your Chrome Bookmarks Drowning in years of messy bookmarks? Bookmark Maestro is the all-in-one Chrome bookmark manager extension that helps you clean up duplicate bookmarks, find broken/dead links, clear out empty folders, and strip UTM/tracking parameters from saved URLs — then organize, batch-edit, and export what's left, with a 30-day recycle bin behind every delete. It works directly on the Chrome bookmarks you already have, and everything stays 100% local: your bookmarks never leave your device. No migration into yet another app. No cloud upload. Just a faster, cleaner way to take control of the bookmarks you already have. ✨ Free Features • Free bookmark health check — see your duplicate, near-duplicate, empty-folder and tracking-parameter counts at a glance, before you decide to clean up • All-in-one bookmark manager — browse every bookmark in a clean folder tree or the All Bookmarks table that shows the full folder path • Understands Chrome's account bookmarks — signed in without sync, Chrome keeps two "Bookmarks Bar"s; here the on-this-device one is labelled everywhere, exports stay importable with a single toolbar folder, Insights shows how much is still only on this device, and the duplicate finder keeps the account's copy of a page saved on both sides and says so • Search everywhere — one smart search behind the Ctrl+K palette, the tables and the side panel, so every box agrees on what matches • Insights dashboard — health score, growth timeline, top domains and protocol breakdown, with exports to image, CSV and JSON • History — a 30-day recycle bin for every bookmark deleted in this browser, with one-click Put back (details below) • Native side panel — your whole bookmark library right inside Chrome's side panel, no extra tab needed • Drag-and-drop organizing — reorder and move bookmarks and folders effortlessly • Batch operations — select and move, delete, or open many bookmarks at once • Keyboard-first — shortcuts throughout, with a built-in cheat sheet • Dark & light themes ⭐ Pro — The Bookmark Doctor (cleanup suite) • Duplicate bookmark finder — remove duplicate bookmarks in one pass; the cleaner picks which copy survives by a stated rule and shows you why • Broken link checker — scan for dead links and broken bookmarks with real HTTP checks; redirects and temporary errors are flagged separately, so you don't delete links that still work • Empty folder cleanup — find and clear the empty folders cluttering your bookmark bar • Similar-link detection — surface near-duplicate URLs pointing to the same page • Tracking-parameter cleanup — strip utm_ and other trackers from saved URLs in bulk, undo included • Bulk edit with regex — find-and-replace across many bookmarks with pattern matching and precision 🗑️ History — the recycle bin Chrome doesn't have (free for everyone) • Every bookmark you delete in this browser — in Bookmark Maestro, in Chrome's own bookmark manager, by another extension, or by a deletion synced from another device — is kept for 30 days and can be put back where it was: same folder, same order, same position • Restore deleted bookmarks in one click: Put back rebuilds a whole deleted folder, and the row says exactly what came back • Clean All, Clean URLs, Batch Edit, Move, Sort and Import each end in a receipt with Undo — and the same Undo is still on the History page days later, not seconds • It says what it cannot do: it is not a backup (it lives in the same Chrome profile), it holds only deletions made after it was installed, a put-back bookmark is dated today, and edits made in Chrome itself are not recorded • 100% local: the trash lives in this browser's own storage and nowhere else — Forget drops one deletion, Forget all empties it, and a switch turns keeping off ⭐ Pro — Import, Export & Backup • Export to 5 formats — browser-importable HTML (favicons included), JSON, CSV, Markdown, or a plain URL list. Export Chrome bookmarks to JSON for scripts and automations, to CSV for spreadsheets, to Markdown for Obsidian or Notion notes, or to a plain list of URLs. • Selective export — export everything, just the current folder, or only the bookmarks you hand-pick. The granular way to export Chrome bookmarks that Chrome itself won't — ideal for backups and for moving your data anywhere with no lock-in. • Flexible import — bring bookmarks in from any HTML file, dropped into the exact folder you choose, with the original folder structure preserved. 💳 Pricing The diagnosis is always free — every scan, every count, the whole Insights dashboard. Pro unlocks the cleanup and data tools above: $1.99/month, $9.99/year, or $29.99 once for lifetime access, with a 14-day refund window. 🔒 Why Bookmark Maestro • 100% local & private — your bookmarks are processed on your device and never uploaded; even exported favicons come from Chrome's own local store, and only your account/subscription status ever touches a server • One tool instead of five — stop installing a separate extension for dedup, another for dead links, another for empty folders, another for batch edits. It's all here, in one polished app. • Works on your native bookmarks — no walled garden, no switching tools, no giving up the Chrome bookmarks you already trust • Featured on the Chrome Web Store 👤 Ideal For • Bookmark hoarders with hundreds or thousands of links to clean up • Researchers and students organizing reference links • Developers and power users who want to export bookmarks to JSON, CSV or Markdown, back them up, or batch-edit them • Anyone tired of a messy, duplicate-filled bookmark bar • Anyone who has lost a bookmark folder to a slip or a cleanup and wants a way back next time 🆕 WHAT'S NEW IN 2.2.0 History now reads like a record of what happened, not just a list of what went missing. • Open any row in History — it says where the deletion came from ("from 'Work'"), what was inside it, and when each of those bookmarks was first saved, so a link you kept for years is easy to tell from one you saved last week. • A Put back folds into the row it undid: one deletion stays one row, from the moment it happened to the moment it came back. • Every URL the Bookmark Doctor lists — duplicates, similar links, broken links, tracking parameters — is now a link you can open, so you can look at the page before you decide to clean it. New in 2.1 — History, the recycle bin Chrome doesn't have, plus Chrome's two bookmark stores: • History — every bookmark deleted in this browser, here or in Chrome's own bookmark manager, including a deletion synced from another device, is kept for 30 days and can be put back where it was, whole folders included. Cleanups, edits, moves, sorts, URL cleans and imports each end in a receipt whose Undo still works days later. Free, 100% local, not a backup, and only deletions made after it was installed. • Chrome's two "Bookmarks Bar"s understood and labelled — signed in without sync, the on-this-device copies are marked everywhere, exports stay importable with a single toolbar folder, Insights shows how much is still only on this device, and the duplicate finder keeps the account's copy of a page saved on both sides and says so. Also new since 1.4: • A redesigned manager — folder tree, views and live Bookmark Doctor counts in one left rail • Search everywhere — press Ctrl+K (⌘K on Mac) for a command palette over every folder and bookmark, or Alt+B to search your library from any web page • Insights grew into a full dashboard — a health score for your whole library, growth over time, top domains — free, including its image, CSV and JSON exports • Link checks now run as a background job — closing the window no longer cancels a scan, and a new "untested links only" pass makes big libraries resumable • New Tracking Parameters cleaner — see exactly which utm_ and other trackers will be stripped from your saved URLs, with a strike-through preview and undo • Smooth at 20,000 bookmarks — tables scroll, never paginate • The duplicate cleaner now picks which copy survives by a stated rule, and prints the reason on the row 💡 Chrome has no undo for a bulk delete. Bookmark Maestro does: every deletion sits in History for 30 days, one click from being put back. An exported file is still the copy you own — export before a big cleanup anyway (any format works). Install Bookmark Maestro and turn a messy bookmark bar into a clean, organized, duplicate-free library — without your data ever leaving your browser.