How Stowyt compares

There are good tools for keeping things. They are made for different things. This page says, as plainly as we can, where Stowyt fits next to the save buttons inside each app, bookmark managers like Raindrop, read-later apps like Pocket, Dewey, and your browser's bookmarks, and what it doesn't do.

What Stowyt is for

Posts you find on your phone, in the apps: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Substack. You tap Share, pick Stowyt, and the post is in one library with everything else you keep, including web pages and your own notes. Each post is shown by its own platform through that platform's official embed; only the link is stored. The library opens on your phone and your computer, with search, tags, notes, categories and collections. It is free.

The save button inside each app

Instagram's Saved, TikTok's Favorites, YouTube's Watch later, X's Bookmarks, Reddit's Saved: each is one list, inside one app, without notes, with little or no search, and you have to remember which app you saved something in. They are quick, and they are where most saves still go. Stowyt is for the ones you want to find again: it takes one more tap (Share, then pick Stowyt instead of the app's own Save) and puts the post in one place, with a note that says why you kept it.

It doesn't read the lists inside the apps. Nobody can, from a phone: the platforms give no way to see what you saved inside their apps. What Stowyt can do is import Instagram's "Download your information" file, and notice, when you import it again, what you unsaved on Instagram in the meantime.

Raindrop

Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager, and a mature one: browser extensions for every browser, apps for every platform, collections, tags, and on its paid plan full-text search and permanent copies of the pages you save. It is made for the web: articles, pages, links, mostly from a computer.

Stowyt is made for posts from apps on a phone. The share menu is the way in, the post is shown as its platform shows it (a video plays, a tweet looks like a tweet), and texts and categories are part of it. It keeps no copies of pages and has no browser extension yet (a bookmark button does the job on a computer). If most of what you keep is web pages read on a computer, Raindrop will serve you better today. If it is posts from your phone, Stowyt is built for exactly that.

Pocket

Pocket was the read-later app: save an article, read it later in a clean view. Mozilla closed it in July 2025. If you kept its export file, Stowyt imports the CSV (Settings → Your data → Import), links, titles, tags and dates included. Stowyt doesn't offer a reading view: a web page is kept as its link and title, and opens on its own site.

Dewey

Dewey is the closest in purpose: it collects the posts you save inside the apps, across platforms, into one place. It does that by watching your accounts from a Chrome extension on a computer. In our own use, posts saved and unsaved in the Instagram phone app didn't reach it until a computer with the extension ran, and Instagram gives no other way. That is the problem Stowyt was started to solve: every save is a share from the phone, it lands within a second, and it never needs your passwords or a computer in between. Dewey's CSV export imports into Stowyt with its titles, tags and dates.

Your browser's bookmarks

Bookmarks are fine for pages, on the browser you made them in. They show a title and nothing else, and a post bookmarked from a phone is a bare link. Stowyt imports any browser's bookmarks file, folders becoming collections, and shows posts as posts. If you only ever keep pages on one computer, bookmarks may be all you need.

What Stowyt doesn't do

• It never downloads or copies a post's photos or videos. A post that is deleted on its platform stops showing; your link, tags and note stay.
• It never asks for your password to any platform and can't see your accounts there.
• There is no iPhone share button yet; on iPhone, copying the link and pasting it into the app works.
• There is no browser extension yet; a bookmark button and pasting do the job on a computer.