Looking for a Dewey Alternative? How Birdfeeder Compares
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Dewey and Birdfeeder both collect the bookmarks you save on social networks and make them searchable. Dewey covers more platforms and has more tools for organizing, like folders, AI tagging and a Notion integration. Birdfeeder does fewer things: it covers X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr, costs $5 a month or $45 a year, sends you a weekly email of what you saved, and lets an AI assistant search your bookmarks.
I build Birdfeeder, so read this with that in mind. Everything I say about Dewey comes from its public homepage and pricing page as of September 2026. I haven't used Dewey's paid plans myself, so I'm not comparing how either one feels in daily use.
What does Dewey do?
Dewey's site describes it as a place to save your bookmarks from Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Truth and the web in one place. Its navigation also lists Instagram, Reddit and Substack. It has search across bookmarks, tags, authors and notes, folders, keyboard shortcuts, and an AI feature that suggests tags for many bookmarks at once.
On the output side, Dewey can sync bookmarks into a Notion database, generate an RSS feed, share public collections, and export your library as CSV, searchable PDF or a Google Sheet, including the images and videos attached to posts. There's a Chrome extension.
If you save a lot from LinkedIn, TikTok or Instagram, Dewey supports those and Birdfeeder doesn't. Same if you want folders, PDF exports or a Notion sync. Birdfeeder has none of those.
What does Birdfeeder do differently?
Birdfeeder is narrower on purpose. It connects to your X, Bluesky and Mastodon accounts, and to Nostr through your public key, and keeps a searchable copy of everything you bookmark there. You keep bookmarking in the apps you already use. The differences that matter most:
- A weekly summary email with what you bookmarked that week, plus up to three older bookmarks from your archive. This is the feature I use the most, because it gets me to actually read what I saved. (weekly summary)
- An MCP server, so Claude or another AI assistant that supports MCP can search your bookmarks when you ask it something. (MCP server)
- Nostr support. Dewey's site doesn't mention Nostr.
- Export to CSV, TSV, JSON or Excel. For Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr bookmarks, export is free for every signed-in user. X bookmarks are in the export on the yearly plan.
- A private note on every bookmark, which search also looks at. (notes)
- Public sharing of single bookmarks on a profile page, and an RSS or JSON feed. (public bookmarks, feeds)
I didn't find a weekly email or an MCP server on Dewey's homepage or pricing page. That doesn't prove they don't exist, so if either one is the reason you'd switch, ask Dewey directly.
How do the prices compare?
Dewey's pricing page lists a free plan with manual syncing and one connected account, Pro at $10 a month or $7.50 a month billed annually ($90 a year), a Lifetime plan for $225, and an Export Pass for $50 that is valid for 48 hours.
Birdfeeder has a 14-day free trial without a card, then $5 a month or $45 a year. There's no lifetime plan and no separate charge for exports.
Dewey's free plan has no end date, which Birdfeeder doesn't offer. Birdfeeder's trial ends after 14 days. The paid plans are cheaper on Birdfeeder, but you get fewer platforms and fewer organizing tools for that price.
Can I use Birdfeeder and Dewey at the same time?
Yes. Both read the bookmarks from your accounts, so neither one changes anything on X or Bluesky, and connecting one doesn't affect the other. If you're unsure, run Birdfeeder's trial next to what you use today and compare after two weeks.
How do I switch from Dewey to Birdfeeder?
Birdfeeder doesn't import files from Dewey or any other bookmark manager. It reads bookmarks straight from your accounts instead. So switching means signing in with X, Bluesky or Mastodon and letting Birdfeeder import from there.
On Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr, the whole bookmark history comes in when you sign up. On X, Birdfeeder starts with your recent bookmarks and imports the full backlog on the yearly plan. X only hands out your most recent 800 bookmarks to outside apps, so that limit applies to every tool that uses X's official API. If you have old X bookmarks in a Dewey export, keep that file.
Your notes and tags from Dewey won't carry over. That's the main cost of switching.
Which one should I pick?
If you save from many platforms, or you organize your bookmarks into folders and push them into Notion, Dewey fits that better. If your bookmarks live on X, Bluesky, Mastodon or Nostr and you mostly want to find them again, get a weekly reminder of them, and search them from an AI assistant, Birdfeeder covers that for less money.
There's a broader comparison of Birdfeeder against the networks' own bookmark tabs on the bookmark manager comparison page, and prices are on the pricing page.