Floccus Bookmarks Sync

★★★★★

Very flexible, and can sync bookmarks across many different devices and browsers. Floccus is a solid replacement for Xmarks, though you do have to choose your own cloud storage. On the plus side, you get to choose your own cloud storage, and whether you use your own Nextcloud server, or store the bookmarks encrypted on Google Drive or another supported service, you know who has access to them, which is a big bonus for privacy.

It doesn’t sync other settings or send the current tab to another browser. But you can use Firefox Sync or Vivaldi Sync or whatever for their other features, just turn bookmarks off and let Floccus take care of those. Floccus can sync currently-open tabs, but it does it by actually syncing which tabs you have open, not just making them available or sending one on demand.

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, and more recently Vivaldi, since 2020. 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*.

When using Nextcloud for storage, it syncs faster with an app-specific password than with your regular login.

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.