A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
- Beautiful magazine-style reading UI
- Deep publisher partnerships
- Social features for following creators and curators
Compare Flipboard and Keep side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Here's how Flipboard and Keep compare across the features people actually look for. They share 2 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Bookmarklet | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | |
| Save from email | Forward to in.keep.md | |
| Save tweets | Partial | |
| Save YouTube videos | Partial | With transcripts |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | |
| Save audio files | With Whisper transcription | |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | Partial | |
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Partial | |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial |
| Full-text search | Partial | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | ||
| Notes | ||
| Tags | ||
| Collections | Magazines | |
| Public sharing | Public magazines | Partial |
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | |
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI tagging on capture | |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | |
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ||
| Send to Kindle |
Flipboard is free and Keep is free, paid from $10/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.
Free
All features free; ad-supported.
Free
50 saved items lifetime, browser extension, MCP server, markdown export.
Pro
1,000 saves per cycle, all sources, bulk exports, higher API quota.
Max
5,000 saves per cycle, everything in Pro.
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
Flipboard is a free social news app, not a power-user reading tool. It curates stories from major publishers and independent creators into magazine-style feeds, with public Flipboard 'magazines' users can create and share. iOS, Android, and web only, no browser extension beyond a bookmarklet, no public API. In recent years Flipboard has leaned into Mastodon and fediverse integration, making it one of the few mainstream apps that speaks ActivityPub. The reader experience is beautiful. The power-user experience is not the point.
Keep is a save-anywhere tool built around one idea: everything you capture should be available as clean markdown that an AI agent can read. Articles, tweets, YouTube videos with transcripts, GitHub stars, newsletters, RSS, and plain URLs all land in the same searchable library. People read their library in a clean in-app feed. Agents read it through the API, CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code skill, so Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other tools can work against the library directly. Auto-sync pulls from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletter inboxes on a schedule, so the library stays current without manual work. Semantic search runs across everything you've saved.