Your second brain for the web — save, organize, and rediscover.
Users
18
+2 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#158K
#132K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 13 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:18 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 18 Oct 2026:4 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Cairn
Cairn — your private second brain for the web
Cairn is a private, powerful personal library for everything you discover on the web.
Instead of losing useful articles, tutorials, recipes, videos, images, ideas, and important passages inside crowded bookmarks or dozens of open tabs, save them to Cairn and organize them in a way that's easy to search and revisit.
Save anything, in a click
Save the current webpage with one click, capture selected text, or right-click any supported link or image to add it straight to your library. You can also save supported YouTube and Vimeo pages, add personal notes, assign tags, and file everything into collections and nested collections. Keyboard shortcuts make quick saves effortless.
Organize the way you think
Build a structured knowledge library around your work, interests, research, and everyday life. Create collections such as Work, Programming, Design, Recipes, Travel, Ideas, or Read Later — then add subcollections whenever you need more room. Mark important items as favorites and archive what you no longer need front and center.
Find it again, instantly
Search your entire library in an instant across page titles, website names, tags, notes, and saved article text. It stays fast well past a thousand saved items, so nothing you save ever gets lost again.
A calm home for every new tab
Cairn replaces your new tab with a quiet, customizable dashboard. Arrange widgets for recent saves, Rediscover (which resurfaces older items worth another look), a to-do list, a scratchpad, quick links, pinned collections, an inbox for unsorted items, a clock, and an optional weather tile. Search your library or the web right from the top — web searches open with your own default search engine, exactly as you've set it. Choose a background and show only the widgets you actually use.
Read without distraction
For longer articles, Cairn includes a clean, distraction-free reading view. Highlight the passages that matter and come back later to pick up right where you stopped.
Made to feel good to use
Use the browser popup for fast saving and quick searches, or open the full library page to browse, organize, edit, and manage everything. Cairn ships with a premium Liquid Glass look by default, plus System, Light, Dark, Midnight, Sepia, Nord, Forest, and Rosé themes.
Your library stays yours
Cairn requires no account and never uploads your saved content to an external server. Everything is stored locally in your browser, on your device. Export your entire library as a JSON backup, import it again later, or permanently delete all stored data whenever you choose.
Install Cairn if you want a more organized, searchable, and private alternative to traditional bookmarks, endless open tabs, and scattered notes.