Save from anywhere
Save the page you are on from the toolbar, or right-click a page, link, image, video, or audio URL to save it without opening it first.
Free for Chrome & Firefox
Save links, pages, and videos to playlists
LinkLyst is a bookmark manager for the pages you actually come back to. Save any page, article, video, or link into an ordered, named playlist — then reopen it on the site it came from.
- Free
- No account
- No telemetry
- No third-party server
- Manifest V3
- Chrome, Firefox & Chromium
Why it is different
A bookmark manager with playlists instead of folders
Browser bookmarks go into a folder and are never seen again, because a folder shows you nothing. LinkLyst saves the same links into playlists you can see, search, and reorder by hand.
Ordered, named playlists
A link can sit in as many playlists as you like, in the order you choose. Sorting a view never rewrites the order you set by hand.
Findable months later
Search by title, domain, or URL across everything or inside one playlist, then narrow by domain, saved date, and preview state.
A 30-day undo
Removed items and deleted playlists wait in a local Trash for 30 days and come back with their order intact.
Yours to take away
Export the library as clean JSON or a browser bookmarks HTML file. Restoring a JSON export merges it in rather than replacing what is there.
Keyboard and screen reader
Visible focus, 40–44 px targets, dialogs that trap and restore focus, live result counts, and / to search. Holds at 200% zoom.
How it works
Two clicks to save, one search to find
Save the tab you are looking at
The toolbar popup opens on the page you are on, already carrying its title and preview. Pick a playlist, or make a new one, and it is filed. Right-click instead and you can save a link, image, video, or audio URL without ever opening it.
- Real titles and previews, pulled from the page or its oEmbed data.
- A domain placeholder when a site publishes no preview image — the honest fallback, not a broken tile.
- Nothing is injected into the page, and no script runs in page context.
Then find it again without scrolling
Search runs across every save at once, or inside a single playlist, matching title, domain, and normalised URL. Facets narrow by domain, saved date, preview state, and playlist — and the filter lives in the gallery URL, so Back and Forward work and a filtered view can be bookmarked.
- / focuses search, Ctrl/Cmd+K jumps to all items, Esc clears.
- Live result counts, announced rather than only drawn.
- Sort a view without disturbing your manual order.
What people use it for
One playlist per intention
A read-later list
Articles you do not have time for right now go into one playlist, with the headline and preview image already attached, so choosing what to read next takes a glance rather than a guess.
Video playlists that span sites
A YouTube link, a Vimeo link, and a conference talk hosted on somebody's blog can sit in the same playlist. LinkLyst pulls the real title and thumbnail for supported links, and opening one takes you to the site it came from.
Research collections
One playlist per topic, per project, or per course. Search and domain filters make a playlist of forty sources usable instead of archival.
Somewhere for the open tabs to go
Save the wall of tabs you are keeping open "for later", close them, and reopen only the ones you need.
Local first
There is no account, because there is no server
Your library lives in your browser's own extension storage, and preview screenshots never leave the device. No analytics, no telemetry, no advertising code — nothing is sent to the developer, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.
By default LinkLyst also keeps a compact, metadata-only copy of your library in your browser's own synced profile storage — Chrome Sync on Chrome, Firefox Sync on Firefox — so it can survive a reinstall or appear in the same browser on another device you are signed in to. That copy holds playlist names, URLs, titles, and order only — never screenshots, never search or filter state, and never anything saved in Incognito or a private window. One checkbox keeps everything local, and the copy can be erased outright. It is all written down in the privacy policy.
- 0
- Accounts to create, and no sign-in of any kind
- 0
- Trackers, analytics events, or advertising scripts
- 30
- Days a removed item waits in local Trash before it is dropped
Scope
What it does not do
LinkLyst saves and reopens; it is not a reader and not a player. It never embeds a third-party page and never plays media inside the extension — opening a saved item takes you to the original site in a new tab. There is no feed, no collaboration, and no AI.
About the website-access warning
Chrome warns that LinkLyst can read and change data on all websites; Firefox words it as access to your data for all websites. It asks for website access for one reason: to read the title and preview metadata of a URL you asked it to save. A link you right-click is usually not open in any tab, so no narrower permission covers it.
- A six-second whole-response timeout, an allowlist of content types, and hard size caps.
- No script injected into pages, and none run in page context.
- The only third-party requests concern a link you saved — an oEmbed lookup, a metadata read from that page's own site, and an ordinary image request when a stored preview renders.
Questions
Answered plainly
Is LinkLyst a bookmark manager?
Yes, with playlists instead of folders. A saved link can sit in any number of playlists, in an order you set by hand, and every save carries a preview image, title, and domain so a playlist reads as a gallery rather than a list of blue text.
Does LinkLyst need an account?
No. There is no LinkLyst account, no sign-in, and no LinkLyst server. Your library lives in your browser's own extension storage, and preview screenshots never leave the device.
Do my saved links sync between computers?
A compact, metadata-only copy — playlist names, URLs, titles, and order — can ride along in your browser's own synced profile storage, which is Chrome Sync on Chrome and Firefox Sync on Firefox, so your library can come back after a reinstall or appear in the same browser on another device you are signed in to. Screenshots and anything saved in Incognito or a private window are never included, and one checkbox keeps everything local.
Does LinkLyst play videos or read articles inside the extension?
No. LinkLyst saves and reopens. Opening a saved item takes you to the original site in a new tab; it never embeds a third-party page and never plays media inside the extension.
Why does my browser warn that LinkLyst can read data on all websites?
To read the title and preview metadata of a URL you asked it to save. A link you right-click is usually not open in any tab, so no narrower permission covers it. Those reads are bounded by a six-second timeout, an allowlist of content types, and hard size caps; LinkLyst injects nothing into pages and runs no script in page context.
Which browsers does LinkLyst support?
Chrome, Chromium-based browsers such as Edge, Brave, and Opera, and Firefox. It is a Manifest V3 extension, installed from the Chrome Web Store or from Firefox Add-ons. Firefox for Android is supported too, with one difference: Android has no extension right-click menu, so the toolbar popup is the only way to save there.
Read more
If you arrived looking for something specific
A Pocket alternative
Pocket shut down in July 2025. What a replacement should look like when you have been burned once — including what LinkLyst deliberately does not do.
A bookmark manager with no account
Where your links actually sit when there is no server, how sync works without a third-party login, and what the install warning really means.
Video playlists across sites
One ordered list holding YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted video, without a Google account — and why nothing is ever embedded or re-hosted.
Free, and nothing to buy inside it
Chrome, Firefox & Chromium · Manifest V3 · Version 0.1.1
Start one playlist and see
Install it, save the tab you already have open, and close the tab. That is the whole loop.