Every feature
What boilerpod does, in plain language.
One library for everything worth keeping, and every way it helps you save it, sort it, and find it again.
Save anything, from anywhere
From the browser, the app or your email. Everything lands in your Inbox unless you chose a board.
The browser extension Email links to your Inbox Save web pages permanently
One-click save from the browserChrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox and Safari on Mac. Edit the title, pick a board, add tags, write a note. The popup remembers the board you used last.
Three ways to keep a pageArticle: a clean, readable copy exactly as you saw it. Full page: the whole page as it looks today, pictures included. Bookmark only: just the address and title.
Paywalls and logins includedBecause the page is saved as you saw it, articles behind a paywall, a sign-in or your company network are kept with their content, not a login screen.
Highlight on the live pageClick the extension on any page, select a passage, tap a colour. Your highlights are drawn back onto the page when you return, and they show up in your Notebook too.
Right-click to saveA link, a picture or selected text, straight to your Inbox.
Know what you already haveA dot on the toolbar button tells you the page is already in your library. Your browsing stays in your browser.
Save all open tabsUntick any, choose a board or let boilerpod make one named with today’s date, and close them all once they are safely saved.
Side panelStays open beside the page in Chrome, Edge and Firefox: where this page is saved, your newest saves, and a search box over your whole library.
Close the popup, the save still finishesMove on straight away. The page arrives on its own.
Connects in one clickNo tokens to paste. See every connected browser in Settings and disconnect any of them instantly.
Reads a page only when you askYour browser shows no “read all your data on all websites” warning, and nothing from pages you do not save ever leaves it.
Bring in this browser’s bookmarksOne click in the extension copies your bookmarks into boilerpod, folders and all, with a preview of where they will land. Your browser is left exactly as it was.
Add from inside the appPaste one address and the title and description fill themselves in. Or paste a whole list, up to 500 links at once, and boilerpod tells you which ones you already had.
Notes with no addressA note sits on a board beside your links, tagged, moved and searched like everything else.
Drop any fileDrag it anywhere in the app. PDFs, books, images, audio, video and documents land beside your links, up to 300 MB each.
Email links to your InboxForward any newsletter or email to your private boilerpod address. Every link inside lands in your Inbox, with the unsubscribe and tracking links already stripped out.
Details filled in for youTitle, description, preview image, author, publish date and keywords, and the real title and channel for YouTube links. Anything you typed yourself is never overwritten.
Boards, sections and tags
Where things live, and how you move them.
Boards inside boardsNest them as deep as you like. Expand a branch or the whole tree, create a board anywhere, and rearrange by dragging.
Make each board yoursColours, icons and a banner with a gradient, a flat colour or a photo. A board should look like what it holds.
Sections inside a boardTitled sections, each with its own description and colour. Collapse, reorder, or move a whole section with its links to another board.
A section that fills itselfPoint a section at a tag and it shows everything carrying that tag, wherever it is filed, and keeps itself up to date.
Masonry, columns or KanbanThree ways to lay out a board, with your own column counts for desktop, tablet and phone.
Seven ways to show itemsPanels, Grid, Masonry, Tiles, Text, Tabular and Dense. Set per board, override per section, pick a card size, choose what each card shows.
Sort, filter, jumpYour own order, A to Z, newest, oldest or most clicked. Filter a board by tag. A table of contents jumps to any section.
One link, several boardsPut the same link on as many boards as you like. It keeps one set of tags, notes, highlights and reading progress everywhere.
Drag and drop that tells you what it will do“Move 3 links to Reading.” Hold Alt or Ctrl to add instead of move. Works on touch and with the keyboard.
Select many, act onceTick, Shift-click a range or select all. Then tag, move, archive, delete or restore the lot. Undo where it matters.
Inbox, Archive and TrashUnfiled saves wait in the Inbox. Archive tucks things away but keeps them searchable. Restore from Trash puts an item back exactly where it was.
Tags that nest and roll up“Camera” can live under both “Gear” and “Photography”. Open a tag and see everything beneath it, grouped so you know why each item is there.
Aliases, colours, mergeGive a tag other names and search finds it by any of them. Merge tags with a preview of what will change.
Sticky tagsMark a tag sticky and it attaches itself to any new item that mentions it.
PIN-protected boardsOne PIN locks any boards you choose. Their contents vanish from search, tags, views, the dashboard and exports until you unlock them. Nobody, including us, can open them for you.
No duplicate links, everWith or without www, tracking codes or a trailing slash, it is the same link. Save it again and it simply joins the new board. The same file uploaded twice is stored once.
Smart rules and Smart Inbox
Write the rule once and it files for you. Or switch on Smart Inbox and let boilerpod do the sorting.
If URL contains any of
reddit.com/r/productivity gettingthingsdone.com then tag with Productivity then move to Reading › To ReadIf boilerpod answers yes to
Is this a recipe you could cook from? then tag with Recipe then move to KitchenIf this, then thatMatch on the web address, or on the title, description and keywords. Then add tags, move to a board or a section, or both. Rules read as a sentence, so you always know what one does.
Or just ask a question“Is this a recipe?” “Is this about photography gear?” A rule can ask boilerpod a plain yes-or-no question about the page and act on the answer. When it is not sure, it leaves the link alone.
Runs on everything newExtension saves, emailed links, pasted lists, uploads. Or run one rule, or all of them, over any board whenever you like.
In order, with a previewRules run top to bottom and you can reorder them. While you edit, see how many items would match right now, with a sample.
Always explainableEvery item a rule touched carries a “Filed by rule” label, so you always know why it is where it is. Nothing happens that you cannot trace.
Smart Inbox: filed for youSwitch it on and new links move out of the Inbox onto the board they belong on, only when boilerpod is sure. Each one is marked “Filed for you”, and moving it yourself always wins.
Tags suggested from your own tagsNew links arrive with the tags you would have chosen, picked from your tag list, never invented. A suggested tag is marked, and nothing is ever taken off.
Tidy a whole board at oncePick “File and tag with Smart Inbox” from any board’s menu, confirm, and get a report of what moved, what was tagged and what stayed put.
Off until you say soBoth switches are off by default and never touch your notes, your files or a PIN-protected board. Prefer the rules you wrote? Leave Smart Inbox off and they run exactly as before.
Search and finding things
One box, a language you can type, and views that surface what you forgot.
One search box for everythingAcross every board. Matching boards, sections and tags appear as quick-jump chips. Ranked by relevance and forgiving of typos.
Search inside the filesThe words in every saved page, PDF, book and text file. PDFs name the page, books the chapter, and one click opens right there.
A search language you can typePlain words, “exact phrases” and
-word to exclude. Narrow with tag: board: site: author:, ask for is:unread is:book has:notes, or filter by numbers and dates: clicks:>10, saved:7d, created:today. If you mistype, you still get results for the words.Saved viewsSave any search as a named view with its own icon and sort. Pin it to the sidebar and dashboard with a live count.
Views that come built inRecently added, Recently accessed, Top clicked, Forgotten, Images, With notes, Broken links. Edit any of them.
Quick filtersUntagged, Unread articles, Half read, Never opened, Highlighted, Broken. They appear only when they would show you something, and any of them can become a view.
Find on pagePress / on any board to filter what is on screen as you type. Group results by tag, site or board.
Duplicate finderEvery address you saved more than once, tracking codes ignored. Keep one, trash the rest.
Dashboard, Speed dial, NotebookYour counts, pinned views and “Continue reading” with minutes left. A star in the top bar opens your favourite links on every screen.
Your recent searchesOne click away, and clearable. Trash and locked boards are never searched.
Reading, highlights and notes
A reader you can tune, highlights that last, a Notebook for all of it.
A clean reading viewAny article, book or text file, stripped of navigation, adverts and pop-ups. Dark theme throughout.
Make it read the way you likeTypeface, including dyslexia-friendly options, text size, line spacing, column width and alignment. Focus mode hides everything but the words. Your choices follow you to every device.
Pick up exactly where you left offReopen on any device and you are back at the very words you were reading, even after a few paragraphs in a 900-page book. Skimming to the end does not count as read.
Unread, In progress, ReadMoves along by itself, with reading time and minutes left. Mark by hand whenever you want.
Highlight any passageIn an article, book, text file, PDF, or on the live web page. Five colours, a note and tags on each.
Highlight a figure or a tableDrag a box over any part of a PDF page. It lands in your Notebook as a picture, and the words inside it are searchable.
Highlights that surviveWhen a page changes, your highlights move to where the passage now sits. If the passage disappears, your words and your note are kept.
NotebookEvery highlight on a page in reading order, one click to jump. And one library-wide Notebook for everything you have ever highlighted, grouped by source, filterable by tag.
Take your highlights anywhereExport as Markdown, CSV or plain text, or copy to the clipboard.
Notes and ratingsA private note on any item, and a 1-to-5 star rating you can sort and search by.
Files: PDFs, books, images and more
Every file beside the links it belongs with, tagged and searchable like everything else.
Upload anything, up to 300 MB a fileFiles sit on a board next to links and are tagged, moved and found the same way. boilerpod knows what a file really is, not just what it is called.
Formats it understandsPDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF; EPUB; PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, HEIC; MP3, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WAV; MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI; text, Markdown, CSV, JSON.
Opens right inside boilerpodPDFs in the built-in viewer, images on their own page, video and audio with a player, books and text in the reader. Everything else is stored, taggable and findable, one click from download.
The words inside are searchablePDFs page by page, books chapter by chapter, text files in full. Title and author come from the file itself.
A PDF viewer built for long documentsSelectable text, fast even on big files, zoom, and search inside the PDF that lists every matching page. It remembers where you were.
Keep a copy of a linked PDFSaved a link that points at a PDF? One click brings the file into your library so you can read, search and highlight it.
E-booksRead DRM-free EPUBs with the same reader, progress, resume position and highlights as any article. Table of contents, search by chapter, pictures and cover included.
Thumbnails that tell you what it isAn image is its own thumbnail, a book shows its cover, a PDF shows its first page.
Your permanent copyKeep your own copy of an article, pictures included, so it stays readable if the page changes or vanishes. Discard it whenever you like.
Page historyEvery time a saved page’s text changes, boilerpod keeps the new version and the date.
See what changedA word-by-word comparison between any two versions. Additions marked, removals struck through, and a “This page changed” marker in your lists and in the reader.
Broken links, found for youLinks are checked when saved and re-checked on demand. Only a page that is truly gone is flagged, never a site that was busy. Vouch for a link with “This link is fine”.
Import and export
Bring your whole history in. Take all of it out, free, any time.
Moving from Pocket Import your browser bookmarks Coming from Raindrop Coming from Readwise Reader
Import from anywhereBrowser bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi. Raindrop.io, Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard exports. Any spreadsheet with an address column, any list of links, or a boilerpod backup.
Straight from your browserThe extension imports this browser’s bookmarks in one click. No export file to find.
See where everything will land firstFolders become boards and sections under one “Imported” board. Change any folder’s destination before a single link is saved.
Import again without duplicatesThe same file twice changes nothing. A newer export brings in only what is new, and everything you already had keeps its tags and boards.
Runs while you do something elseClose the page and get an email when it is done, with a plain-English report of what was saved, what you already had, and what was left out.
Three exports, free for everyoneA bookmarks file any browser opens. A full backup with notes, tags, progress and rules. Or everything as one ZIP, with every file and every kept page, readable offline. Libraries over 4 GB welcome.
Your backup restoresBring a boilerpod backup back in, notes and uploaded files included, and pick up where you were.
Account, sign-in and privacy
Sign in your wayEmail and password with “keep me signed in”, or a magic link and no password at all.
Signed-in devices, in your handsEvery device you are signed in on, named plainly, with last-active dates. Sign out one, or all the others. Neither an IP address nor a location is kept.
No tracking, no analyticsNot in the app, not in the extension. Your files are served to you and nobody else.
Locked downGuessing attacks are shut out at sign-in, PIN entry and extension pairing. Change your password and every other device is signed out, and you are told.
Storage at a glanceHow much space your files take, by type, what is in Trash, and your largest items.
Leave whenever you likeExport everything, then delete your account and all of it in one step. Support and feature requests from inside the app.
Everywhere you are
Desktop, tablet and phoneThe sidebar becomes a slide-out menu on small screens, columns adapt per device, dragging works by long-press.
Install it as an appOn your desktop or home screen, in its own window, with shortcuts to Inbox and Articles. Every device you sign in on sees the same library.
Keeps working offlineBoards and articles you have opened stay readable without a connection. A highlight, a note or a reading position made offline is sent the moment you are back.
Keyboard and accessibility/ to find on page, Shift and Ctrl/Cmd-click to select, keyboard drag and drop. Labelled controls and screen-reader announcements throughout.
Every setting you can changeWhat boilerpod opens on, light or dark theme, open links in a new tab or the reader, an app-wide background, defaults for new boards, reading preferences.
Coming soon
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Sign in with Google and Microsoft
Worth a full read, a reference, or a glance Every new link sorted as it arrives, so your reading list is only what deserves the time.
Broken links, triaged Truly gone, a login wall, or a parked domain. Each one told apart, so you know what to fix and what to drop.
Duplicates by meaning Two saves of the same piece under different addresses, found for you.
The tag you are missing Links that fit none of your tags or boards, with a proposed name for the one you should have.
Kind of page and language as filters An article, a product page, a video, a tool; in English, French or anything else. Filter by either.
Publish a board; share a link with a person Outward only. Nobody edits your library.
Meaning-based search and related links Search by what things mean, right inside the same search box, and “show me things like this”.
Rules that propose themselves boilerpod notices how you file and suggests the rule.
Share to boilerpod from your phone
Screenshot and region capture
Keyboard shortcuts and a command palette
Random bookmark and On this day
Reminders and a digest email
Per-board RSS, webhooks, public API, IFTTT and Zapier
Highlights sync to Obsidian and Notion
Two-factor sign-in and passkeys