Your searchable memory of the web
Smart bookmarking with full-content capture and fast search. Free and open source.
- — Full content capture (not just titles)
- — Search across everything you saved
- — Use the hosted version or self-host
Save from anywhere
One-click saving on desktop browsers, or forward links from your phone via Telegram.
Your bookmarks, as a podcast
Get a weekly audio summary of your saved articles. AI reads through your bookmarks and creates a podcast you can listen to anywhere.
- AI-generated summaries of your saved content
- Delivered via email or Telegram
- Choose your delivery day
Save and search with the help of AI
Everything you need to build your knowledge base
Capture what you read, keep it searchable, and own it long-term.
Designed for search
Full content capture so you can search inside what you saved, not just titles.
- — Full-text indexing
- — Tags, domains, and dates
- — Ask questions with AI
Save from anywhere
Browser extensions and Telegram make saving fast on desktop and mobile.
- — Chrome + Firefox extensions
- — Telegram bot forwarding
- — One-click capture
AI summaries and tags
Optional AI helps you skim, organize, and revisit later.
- — Automatic summaries
- — Smart topic tags
- — Clean text extraction
Open source and self-hostable
Run it yourself, audit the code, or contribute. No lock-in, ever.
- — MIT licensed, audit the code
- — Self-host with Docker
- — Import and export anytime
Why I built this
Years ago I found Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits research project. The idea stuck: can we preserve what we read and make it searchable?
I read and share a lot of links (Hacker News, blogs, docs). The good stuff gets lost in browser bookmarks and buried by SEO. Pocket was the closest fit for me for a while, until it shut down.
So I built Pensive to solve this problem. Your bookmarks shouldn't depend on a service that can change direction. That's also why the code is open source — run it yourself, fork it, or just trust that you can. Read the longer story here, or tell me what you think.
Simple, transparent pricing
Use the hosted service or run it yourself — it's open source.
- ✓ All core features (capture, search, tags)
- ✓ Browser extension + Telegram saving
- · 10 bookmarks/day
- · 1 AI question/day
- ✓ Everything in Free
- ✓ 100 bookmarks/day
- ✓ 10 AI questions/day
- ✓ AI summaries and smart tags
- ✓ Support ongoing development
- ✓ All features unlocked
- ✓ Your infrastructure, your data
- ✓ Docker Compose deploy
- ✓ MIT licensed
Ready to build your searchable memory of the web?
Use the hosted version for free, or self-host the open source code.