# What is Stashr?

> One permanent, searchable library for everything you save, from X and Reddit to TikTok, Instagram, the wider web, and beyond.

Stashr is a bookmark-everything app. You keep saving posts the way you already do, with each platform's own bookmark or save button, and Stashr captures a copy of every one of them into a single library you actually own.

It has two parts:

- **The browser extension** watches the native save buttons on the platforms Stashr supports. When you save a post there, Stashr captures it in the background. No extra clicks, no separate save button. It also lets you clip images and text from any web page. Today the supported platforms are X (Twitter), Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram, and the list keeps growing.
- **The web app** at [stashr.me](https://stashr.me) is your library. It holds every capture with its text, images, and author, organizes everything with AI tags and collections, and makes it all searchable by meaning, not just keywords.

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  Stashr is always adding new platforms and capture types. The [Connections](/docs/connections) page in your library is the source of truth for what is live today and what is coming next, so this documentation names the platforms available now rather than a fixed, final list.
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## Why not just use platform bookmarks?

Platform saves are silos with weak search and no permanence. Posts get deleted, accounts disappear, and finding something you saved a year ago is nearly impossible. Stashr fixes all three:

- **Everything in one place.** Saves from every platform Stashr supports, plus [web clips](/docs/web-clips) from any page, live in one library.
- **Permanent.** Stashr stores the post's text and images itself, so your copy survives even if the original is deleted. See [What gets saved](/docs/what-gets-saved) for exactly what is stored.
- **Findable.** [Search](/docs/search) understands meaning ("that pasta recipe with the brown butter"), and [filters](/docs/filters), [tags](/docs/tags), and [collections](/docs/collections) slice the library any way you want.

## The core ideas

| Concept | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Bookmark | One saved post: its text, media, author, and a link to the original |
| Real-time capture | The extension mirroring a save the moment you make it |
| Import | Pulling in your existing saved posts from a platform in bulk |
| Tags | Labels on bookmarks, added by you or [automatically by AI](/docs/ai-tagging) |
| Collections | Saved filters that keep filling themselves as new saves match |
| Views | Four ways to browse: Grid, Mosaic, Row, and Timeline |

## Start here

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