Bookmarks But Better

Bookmark manager on your new tab: your bookmarks as folder cards, with search and drag-and-drop. Free, no account.

Bookmarks But Better is a bookmark manager that turns your new tab into the bookmarks you already have, with every folder as a card. Install it and it works. There is no account to create and nothing to configure first. Open a new tab and your folders are there in a responsive masonry layout, with a search palette and a full drag-and-drop organizer, instead of digging through browser menus. No advertising, no analytics, no tracking. Everything past that is optional and every part of it is free and open source, including a local daemon that keeps your bookmarks as plain Markdown files in a folder you own. WHAT'S NEW 4.3.0 (14 September 2026) - Choose the dashboard's root folder from the new tab itself. A control beside the source switcher shows the folder in view, and narrowing it adds one click back to all bookmarks - Import from Raindrop and Pocket CSV exports. Raindrop's folder paths become nested folders, Pocket's items land under one folder, and both reuse the preview, destination picker and duplicate handling that HTML import uses - A Settings page you can open from the browser's extensions page, even when the new tab itself is unusable - Safe mode, which opens the new tab without drawing bookmarks so you can change the source or folder that caused the trouble - Setup asks which sources you want as two switches instead of one either-or choice, shows a step counter, and offers Skip for now on the vault step - Settings > Sources now shows each daemon's live status and where to manage its vaults - The app actions moved into the header row, and float as a bottom toolbar on phones - A crash while drawing the dashboard shows a card with the error and a way out, instead of a blank tab - Mounting a 10,000-bookmark collection asks the browser for far fewer computed styles 4.2.1 (13 September 2026) - Collections of thousands of bookmarks no longer hang the new tab. Above 500 bookmarks the dashboard lays out every card but builds only the ones near the viewport, releasing them as they scroll away. The keyboard still reaches every item 4.2.0 (13 September 2026) - The website moved to bookmarks.but-better.dev - The daemon install command in Settings fetches its installer from the project's GitHub Releases, instead of a domain the project does not own 4.1.1 (11 September 2026) - Grid icons are sharp again in Chrome, which was scaling a 16-pixel icon up to fill a 64-pixel tile 4.1.0 (11 September 2026) - npx bookmarks-but-better is now the Daemon Manager. It reports what is installed, configured, running and connected, installs or updates the daemon, uninstalls it without ever touching a vault, and adds, removes or lists vaults - One daemon can serve several vaults, each of them a separate source Full history: https://github.com/farhadeidi/bookmarks-but-better/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md FEATURES - Responsive masonry dashboard - Full Bookmark Organizer tree editor - Search palette: start typing anywhere on the dashboard to find a bookmark by title or URL - Quick capture: save the page you are on from the toolbar popup - Drag bookmarks between folders and reorder them - Create, rename and delete bookmarks and folders - List and icon-grid views per folder - Choose any folder as the dashboard root - Ten color themes plus light, dark and system modes - High-quality favicons with a clean letter fallback - Browser bookmarks and optional local Markdown vaults, never silently mixed - Address-bar search with the “bb” keyword - Standard HTML import and export, plus CSV import from Raindrop and Pocket - Safe mode, and a Settings page reachable from the browser's extensions page, for a new tab that will not load UPGRADING Version 4 upgrades in place. Existing users keep their root folder, layouts, themes and completed setup state. The setup wizard is shown again only when requested from Settings. The legacy standalone collection keeps working and can be copied into a vault; the copy leaves the original intact. PRIVACY Bookmarks But Better has no account system, analytics, tracking, ads or bookmark-content collection. Browser mode reads and updates bookmarks through Chrome's built-in APIs. Preferences remain local to the browser profile. Bookmark origins are sent to Google's public favicon service to retrieve icons; URL paths are not sent. Icons are cached on the device, and Chrome's on-device favicon API is used where it can supply a sharp icon. Daemon mode is optional, binds to localhost only and is contacted only after the user explicitly connects it. PERMISSION JUSTIFICATIONS activeTab: Reads the active tab's title and URL only when the user opens the extension popup to save that page. bookmarks: Displays and manages the user's Chrome bookmark tree. storage: Saves local preferences, the selected root folder and completed setup state. favicon: Uses Chrome's local favicon API for small icons, and when the public favicon provider has no usable icon. clipboardWrite: Copies a bookmark URL when the user chooses Copy link. HOST PERMISSIONS https://t1.gstatic.com/*: Primary Google Favicon V2 provider. https://www.google.com/*: Fallback Google S2 favicon provider. OPTIONAL HOST PERMISSIONS http://127.0.0.1/* and http://localhost/*: Requested only when the user connects the extension to their optional local daemon. They are not granted during installation.