Free Bookmark Tools: recover, clean and convert

Yes. Every tool on bookmend.app/tools is free to use with no signup, no account, no trial and no limit on how many times you run it. There is no paid version of the tools. They exist because the people who need them are the same people who have large, messy bookmark libraries, and that is who Bookmend is built for.

No account and no install. Each tool is a web page: open it, drop a file or paste some links, and download the result. The tools work in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, Firefox and Safari on a desktop or laptop. Some also work on a phone, though getting bookmark files off a phone is harder.

Not for the file-based tools. The 11 tools marked "Runs in your browser" read your file with JavaScript inside the tab, and the file never leaves your device. Close the tab and it is gone. Only the tools marked "Uses our link checker" send data, and they send only the URLs being checked, never your whole file.

The link checker tools do: Bookmark Dead Link Checker, Bulk Wayback Machine Checker, URL Expander, Favicon Downloader, Website Last Updated Checker. A web page cannot request other websites directly because of browser security rules, so those tools send the URLs to a small Bookmend checking service that fetches them and returns the status. Every other tool does its work inside your browser tab.

In Chrome, open the Bookmark Manager with Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows or Cmd+Option+B on Mac, click the three-dot menu at the top right and choose Export bookmarks. Chrome saves a bookmarks.html file. Edge, Brave and Opera have the same option in their favorites or bookmarks manager. Every tool here accepts that file.

Often, yes. Chrome keeps a backup file called Bookmarks.bak next to the main Bookmarks file in your profile folder. The Chrome Bookmarks Recovery Tool reads that backup and turns it into an importable bookmarks.html. Recovery is not possible if Chrome has already overwritten the backup, so copy the file before reopening Chrome.

Importing never deletes anything. Chrome puts imported bookmarks in a new folder, so you will have your old bookmarks and the cleaned copy side by side. To replace your library with the cleaned version, export a backup first, delete the old folders, then import the new file. Each tool page explains the safe order.

Yes. The tools read the Netscape bookmarks.html format that Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge and most other browsers export. The Safari to Chrome converter also opens the iPhone and iPad Safari export .zip and Firefox .json backups, and turns them into a file any browser can import.

The Bookmark Dead Link Checker is a one-off scan of an exported file: you get a list, you act on it, done. Bookmend is an AI-native bookmark manager with a link health feature: it checks the links saved in your Bookmend library in the background, at most once a day per bookmark, flags dead ones, and offers the Wayback Machine snapshot closest to when the page last worked as a replacement. Link health is part of Premium, which is free for new accounts during early access.

It is safe for links you trust, but dozens of tabs can slow your computer and each one loads scripts and trackers. The Bulk URL Opener opens links in batches with a delay for that reason. If you are unsure about a short link, run it through the URL Expander first to see the real destination without visiting it.

On a Chromebook, yes: Chrome's Bookmark Manager can export a bookmarks.html you can drop into any tool. The link tools such as the URL cleaner and URL expander work on any phone browser. File tools work on phones too, but mobile Chrome and Safari cannot export bookmarks directly, so you usually start from a desktop export.

Some sites block automated checks with a 403, rate-limit with a 429 or sit behind a bot challenge, even though the page works in a normal browser. Marking those dead would make you delete good bookmarks, so the checker puts them in a separate group for you to open by hand.

The tools are one-shot: bring a file, get a file back. Bookmend is an AI-native bookmark manager for Chrome and the web, with your library kept in a Bookmend account. It imports the bookmarks.html these tools produce (up to 20,000 bookmarks at a time), summarises and tags what you save, lets you ask your library questions and get answers with citations, and checks saved links for rot. The core bookmark manager is free; AI features and link health are free for new accounts during early access.