What is a good alternative to Dewey?

Dewey describes itself as a way to sync, search and export your bookmarks across multiple accounts. Its home page names X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram, Truth Social, Substack and Reddit, and Global Bookmarks adds articles, videos, images and quotes from any page on the web. Its setup guide calls the Chrome extension the backbone of the entire product. Inside, you get folders, nested folders and tags, Dewey AI that proposes tags in bulk from keywords you give it and shows them before they apply, public folders, RSS, a Notion database sync and an export to CSV or a Google Sheet with the images and videos.

The part that is hard to replace is the backlog. Dewey reaches into each account and brings back the saves you made months or years ago. Of the six apps below, none describes syncing saved posts out of your social accounts in that way on its pages, as of 22 October 2026. So before you switch, decide whether you need the old pile at all, or mostly want a better home for what you save from now on.

People tend to look elsewhere for one of four reasons: they want apps on the phone as well as a desktop extension, they want something that keeps itself in order, they read more articles than posts, or the saves pile up and never get used. Each alternative below answers one of those better than the others.

scrollandlearn starts where Dewey stops. Dewey keeps a post as it was; scrollandlearn reads it and writes a lesson from it. Paste a link to a public post from 15+ platforms, among them X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, and the lesson usually arrives within a minute: a core idea, key points, the one sentence worth keeping, and a thing to try when the post suggests one. What is said in a TikTok or a Reel is transcribed, a YouTube video is read from its captions, and the printed words on Instagram and TikTok carousel slides count too. Below is an example of what a short post on X about publishing becomes.

Every lesson is filed into a topic named after what you keep saving, and Today's quiz asks about it on a spaced schedule, from the next day up to a year out depending on how well you knew it. Add also takes a note, a quote, a photo with printed text, a voice memo or a video or audio file up to 50 MB. Export lessons downloads the library as Markdown, CSV or JSON.

The honest limits next to Dewey: scrollandlearn has no import, so none of the saves you already made come across, and a pasted link brings in one post, or on Creator and Power up to 25 or 100 posts from a public playlist or profile, where Dewey pulls in what you already saved. There are no folders, no collections you can share and no Notion sync. Articles from a pasted link work only for LinkedIn ones; others need the browser extension, in Firefox so far. Prices: 10 lessons free, no card; Starter $19.99 a month for 100 saves; Creator $39.99 a month for 250 saves, Power $79.99 for 1,000.

Raindrop.io calls itself an all-in-one bookmark manager. It keeps books, songs, articles and anything else you find while browsing, plus files you upload, in collections with icons, tags and filters by type, tag or domain. The free plan has no cap on bookmarks, collections or devices and includes import, export and sharing with others. There are extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge and apps for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.

Pro, at $3 a month or $28 a year in the US on 22 October 2026, adds full-text search through saved pages and YouTube videos down to the words spoken, a permanent copy of each page, reminders, annotations, a finder for duplicate and broken links, daily backups and an AI assistant. It suits anyone who wants Dewey's tidy archive at a lower price and on a phone. The limit: it works with links you save as you go, and its pages describe nothing that reads a social post and writes up what it says.

mymind keeps notes, bookmarks, articles, images and inspiration in one private place, and knows whether a link is an article, a product, a book or a recipe. Smart Spaces sort what you save by rules you set, Serendipity resurfaces forgotten items for you to keep or let go, and search works by color, keyword, brand or date. Its pricing page lists The Bookmarker at $4.99 a month without the AI features, Student of Life at $7.99 a month or $79 a year with AI image tagging and text recognition in images, and Mastermind at $12.99 a month or $129 a year, which adds AI summaries, Reading Mode, article backup and video uploads.

It suits people who save visually and dislike making folders, which is the work Dewey leaves to you. The limit for someone coming from Dewey is that you add each item yourself, and a saved video stays a card you can find again rather than something that asks you what you learned.

Readwise Reader saves articles and holds your newsletters, RSS feeds, uploaded ebooks and YouTube videos, where you highlight the transcript as you watch. It can also compile a hard-to-read thread on X into a long article. There are apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and a reading mode for e-ink devices. Ghostreader, its AI helper, answers questions, defines terms and simplifies language as you read.

Reader comes with Readwise's Full plan, $9.99 a month billed yearly or $12.99 monthly on 22 October 2026, after a 30-day trial; the Lite plan at $5.59 a month billed yearly leaves Reader out. It suits people whose saves are mostly long reads and who want the highlights back in a daily review. TikToks and Reels are not among the sources its Reader page names.

Notion's Web Clipper saves any page on the web to Notion, from Chrome on a computer or from inside the Notion app on a phone. What happens next is up to you: a database of links with your own properties, a reading list, a page per idea or a shared wiki with your team. Notion is free to start, and Plus costs $10 per seat a month billed yearly or $12 monthly, as of 22 October 2026.

It suits people who already live in Notion and want saves next to their projects. Dewey can already sync bookmarks into a Notion database, so for some readers the better move is to keep both. The limit is the building: a clipped post is a row until you go back, watch it again and write something.

Glasp is a social web highlighter. You mark passages on web pages, YouTube and Kindle books and attach notes, and highlights are public by default, so others can follow what you read; private highlights come with Pro. Its pricing page lists YouTube summaries, audio transcription minutes, AI chat credits and a daily Notion sync, with Markdown, HTML, CSV and JSON exports on every plan. Free costs nothing, and Pro is $12.50 a month billed yearly or $15 monthly, as of 22 October 2026.

It suits readers who learn from articles and videos in a browser and like sharing what they found. Posts saved on Instagram or TikTok are not what its pages describe working with.

• You save posts for the advice in them and forget it a week later: scrollandlearn.
• You need years of old bookmarks in one place: stay with Dewey, because it is the one here built to fetch them.
• You want the same kind of archive for less money and on your phone: Raindrop.io.
• You want no folders at all and a calm, private place for images and links: mymind.
• Most of what you save is long reading: Readwise Reader.
• Your saves belong next to documents and team pages: Notion with the Web Clipper.
• You like reading in public and following other readers: Glasp.

Export from Dewey first. Its pricing page shows export on the paid plans and sells a one-off Export Pass for $50, valid for 48 hours, as of 22 October 2026. Keep that file somewhere safe even if the new app cannot read it. Raindrop.io lists import on its free plan, so check which file types it accepts before you rely on it. For scrollandlearn there is nothing to import: open the exported list, pick the twenty or thirty posts you saved for a reason, and paste their links one by one. That small set becomes lessons, and the rest can stay in the archive.