Kyurations vs Raindrop.io
Pick Raindrop.io if you want a large, searchable archive of links in nested folders, and pick Kyurations if you want the things you save to become collections other people can look at. Raindrop is the better filing cabinet and has years more polish behind it. Kyurations is the better display case: cards take the shape of their source, lists form themselves out of what you save, articles read in the app rather than sending you back out, and publishing a list is one tap. Two differences are harder to close than the rest: your collection is addressable by Claude, Cursor and other agents over MCP, and an article saved through the extension is captured from the browser you are already signed in to, so a paywalled piece arrives whole rather than as a stub. Your Raindrop export moves across as one file. Both are free to start.
Pick Kyurations when
- Your saves are meant to be shown to someone eventually
- You would rather not name and file every link by hand
- You save across platforms, so a video, a repo and a product should not all render as the same grey row
- You want to ask questions across your whole collection and get answers with citations back to your own items
Pick Raindrop.io when
- You think in nested folders and want them many levels deep
- You have tens of thousands of links and search speed is the whole product
- You need iOS and Android apps today
- You want a permanent snapshot of the whole page, layout and all, which Raindrop's paid tier does and Kyurations does not
Side by side
| Feature | Kyurations | Raindrop.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free, paid tier around $3 a month |
| Organising model | Semantic lists that form themselves, many per item | Nested folders and tags, one home per link |
| What arrives on save | Cover, author, platform, tags, short gist | Cover and title, tags by hand |
| How a saved item looks | A card shaped like its platform | A uniform row or grid tile |
| Publishing | Any list becomes a page under your handle | A shared collection, folder-shaped |
| Notes and files | First-class items alongside links | Attachments on the paid tier |
| Reading | Articles and PDFs open in the app, with your place kept | Sends you to the source |
| How the article is fetched | Captured in your own browser, so a paywalled piece arrives whole | Fetched server-side |
| Import | Reads a Raindrop CSV or HTML export, collections become draft lists | Reads most bookmark files |
| Ask across your collection | Ask Kyuri, with citations to your items | No |
| Agent access | An MCP endpoint, so Claude and other agents can read the collection | No |
| Page archiving | The article text is kept, not a full-page snapshot | Full page copies, on the paid tier |
| Mobile apps | Installs from the browser, plus the extension | iOS, Android, macOS, Windows |
| Export | Any time, free | Any time, free |
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The real difference in one sentence
Raindrop assumes you will come back and find the link. Kyurations assumes someone else will come and look at the collection.
Every other difference follows from that. Folders serve retrieval. Cards, covers and self-forming lists serve display.
Questions people ask
- Is Kyurations free like Raindrop?
- Yes, and there is no gated tier holding back the features described here. Export is free too.
- Can I move from Raindrop to Kyurations?
- Yes, in one file. Raindrop exports CSV and HTML and Settings reads either, with your collections arriving as draft lists rather than finished ones, so nothing lands in a collection pretending you curated it. Links land in seconds and their covers, authors and tags fill in afterwards. What is left to weigh is not the move, it is whether you want three thousand undifferentiated bookmarks inside a tool built for the ones you would show someone.
- Which has better search?
- Raindrop, on raw speed across a very large archive. Kyurations answers questions across your collection instead, which is a different thing and better when you cannot remember the words you saved.