Floccus
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Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers and devices.
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- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
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EUPlatforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Nextcloud
- Google Drive
- F-Droid
- Brave
- Chromium
- Mozilla Firefox
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Very flexible, and can sync bookmarks across many different devices and browsers. You can use your own Nextcloud server, or store the bookmarks encrypted on Google Drive or another cloud service. Either way, you know who has access to them, which is a big bonus for privacy.
The desktop browser add-on is mostly set-and-forget and you just use your regular browser bookmarks. For as many browsers as you want. I've been using it to sync between Firefox and Chrome since 2020, and while it had some problems syncing early on, it's been solid for so long I can't even remember the last time I encountered a sync error.
The mobile app syncs your bookmarks to itself, since most mobile browsers don't let add-ons access their bookmarks. It took all of 30 seconds to set up the Android version with my Nextcloud, and the initial sync didn't take much longer. The UI is simple, letting you do the basics of adding, removing, editing and moving bookmarks. They open in your default browser, and you can share a link from your browser to Floccus to bookmark it.
Offers to sign into NextCloud .. didn't supply an url. It offers to connect to Google Drive and WebDav which are both defunct. So you go to apps.nextcloud.com/signup/ and make an account and wonder where the bookmark part is and if maybe you should just stick w/NextCloud bookmarks instead. You do a search on Nextcloud apps for bookmarks and it takes you to a download that only seems to be for Linux. You try to sign in at the Nextcloud portal, and apparently it takes time for your membership to get into the system.
You clearly don't understand what Nextcloud is. The part where you wrote "didn't supply an url" assures me of this. You signed up for an app store developer account. Instead, you should have created an account (since you probably don't have any) on some instance, like tab.digital or host your own.
Also, I just used the WebDav option for my Nextcloud and It's working fine.
Both of you are ignorant of the other's plight. One is lazy and quite clearly lazy and not able to do a simple web search. Secondly, free Nextcloud services suck and are insecure for the most part. Which the second user is clearly ignorant of. The second user is also ignorant of the pure fact that running your own Nextcloud instance is something above most users' capabilities. It's an assumption most "wannabe gurus" make. Korr shouldn't have made a comment to begin with.
The best. There is nothing better among different browsers.
Floccus is an excellent alternative to native browser sync tools. What I love about it is the flexibility: I can sync everything across different browsers and platforms using just a folder in my Google Drive. It gives you the privacy and independence of a dedicated bookmark manager without the hassle of self-hosting a server. It's reliable, lightweight, and highly recommended.
Sounds like milk and honey - with about 3k bookmarks on the main machine I was very eager to try this open approach (firefox sync is nice but I am on no-trust basis with mozilla). After backing up my complete firefox, let's go! Setup is surprisingly easy, connected it to my nextcloud at tab.digital v31.0.10. Alas, it didnt work. I had 7 different attempts: Login to my nextcloud always succeded but NEVER was there any bookmark to be seen. Tried another instance of ESR, tried another computer as well (on trixie). Tried everything in the settings (folder, tabs and so on) it never worked. Always stuck in syncing, always. Until here I 'd give even 3 stars because I couldnt figure it out (despite their nice guides) but what really annoyed me is that the logs were always empty. PS: Perhaps I will try some other time with an own nextcloud instance... It seems really weird that works so well for most people.
Update: Okay, I must apologize, at least a little!
Since this app has quite some appeal I started nextcloud locally in docker but still it didnt work. Howeverr, in some guides I saw that nextcloud has its very own app, once this was installed, it ran well (some +36k links showing within seconds). D'OH!
I had assumed that access to online space would be good enough. No, it isnt (my free instance at tab-digital hasnt "Boomarks", it's castrated), it needs both, in browser and in nextcloud, which wasnt really well communicated.
Such dedicated nextcloud server limits its usefulness, gotta try the rest...
I like to be able to sync my favorites across devices and platforms and on my own server.
I'm using floccus in conjunction with my nextcloud, and it just works. I use it on Linux, Android and Windows. The upside compared to e.g. Firefox sync is that my data is in my own hands, and no one is checking how often I visit my bookmarks. Setup is as easy as it gets, and after that I can just forget about it. Thank you!