German for eternal
Your bookmarks, forever.
Ewig keeps a real, offline copy of every page you bookmark: snapshot, screenshot and PDF, saved as plain files you own. Links rot. Your archive doesn’t.
The internet forgets. Ewig doesn’t.
A bookmark is just a pointer, and pointers rot. Pages move, paywalls appear, sites disappear. Ewig saves the page itself: an HTML copy that opens offline, a screenshot of exactly what you saw, and a selectable-text PDF.
- Opens forever: snapshots work offline, even after the site is gone.
- Captures that just work: cookie banners dismissed, slow pages waited out, every capture quality-checked.
- Back Up Now: keep dated versions of pages that change over time.
- Custom covers: auto-generated, or shoot your own photo or video.
Your archive is a folder, not a database.
Everything is plain files, in folders that mirror your
collections: Ewig Archive/Tech/Jobs/…
Browse it in Finder, open it in any browser, point Obsidian
at it. Delete the app tomorrow and your archive still opens.
The app’s index is just a cache on top. Disk is truth.
$ tree ~/Ewig\ Archive
Ewig Archive/
├── Tech/
│ ├── Jobs/
│ │ └── Senior Swift Engineer (Panic)/
│ │ ├── page.html ← opens in any browser
│ │ ├── screenshot.png
│ │ └── bookmark.md ← plain-text metadata
│ └── Swift Concurrency Guide/
├── Read/
├── Inspiration/
└── Unsorted/No accounts. No analytics. No servers.
We never see your data. There’s nothing to sign up for and nowhere to send it. Your archive lives in your iCloud Drive or a local folder on your Mac. That’s it.
- Your iCloud or your disk: choose at setup, switch any time.
- Zero tracking: no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party code.
- Nothing to leak: we can’t lose data we never receive. Read the privacy policy.
A thousand bookmarks, one keystroke away.
Press ⌘K to find bookmarks, jump to collections, switch views and run actions, no mouse required. Browse as cards, a list, or headlines only.
- Detail panel: live web, metadata and archive in one place (side panel, popover or full screen).
- Duplicate Link Finder: find and remove repeated URLs in one pass.
- Dead Link Finder: see which originals have died (and smile, because you have snapshots).
Your archive, scriptable.
The bundled ewig CLI works your archive from the
terminal: search, export, pipe. Everything speaks
--json, so scripts and local AI agents can
use it too.
Bringing bookmarks with you? Import from Netscape HTML, Safari, OPML, JSON and CSV. Leaving? Export back out any time.
$ ewig search "swift concurrency" --json
[{ "id": "1a2b3c4d", "title": "Swift Concurrency Guide", … }]
$ ewig screenshot 1a2b3c4d
Saved screenshot.png
$ pbpaste | ewig add
Added 1 bookmark to Unsorted
$ ewig export --format netscape
Exported 995 bookmarksStart your forever archive.
Ewig is free: no account, no subscription, no tracking. Just an archive that outlives the web it came from.