I made this little app called Crumb because I wanted a quicker way to get to the handful of sites I open all the time.
I have regular browser bookmarks, obviously, but for stuff like GitHub, DEV, Hugging Face, Canva, CodePen, and whatever else I’m constantly opening, I really just wanted a little shortcut drawer I could get to from anywhere.
So... I made one.
Crumb sits in your system tray until you need it. Click the icon and a little window pops up with your favorites at the top and everything else underneath. There’s also a search box for when your bookmark collection inevitably starts getting out of hand. Click a link, it opens in your browser, and Crumb disappears.
Click a bookmark, it opens in your browser, and Crumb disappears again.
You can favorite links, switch between list and card views, add a URL straight from your clipboard, and search by the title, URL, or domain. There’s also an optional global keyboard shortcut so you can pop it open without even clicking the tray icon.
One of the little things I ended up liking a lot is the icons. Crumb knows a bunch of common sites and shows their actual icons. If it doesn’t recognize one, it tries to grab the favicon, and if that doesn’t work either, it just makes a little monogram instead.
And everything is stored locally in a plain JSON file.
No accounts. No cloud. No database. No tags and folders and twelve different ways to organize a bookmark.
It’s intentionally a really small app. I didn’t want to build a whole bookmark management system. I just wanted the stuff I use constantly to be one click away without keeping a bunch of tabs open or digging through browser menus.
The tiny tools that fix one mildly annoying thing are some of my favorite things to make. And
personally, I think it's really useful.
Built with Tauri v2, React, TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind.
It's open source and if you want, you can try it here:
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