Searching for tools beyond Eagle.cool? Explore the top 5 visual bookmarking apps for designers in 2025 to organize inspiration, speed up your workflow, and end creative chaos.
Last updated:
September 20, 2026
Before replacing Eagle, look at what you are asking your reference library to do.
If you mostly organize downloaded images, fonts, videos, and other design files, Eagle may still be a good fit. If you mainly collect websites, share inspiration with colleagues, or arrange references around a project, a different tool may suit that part of your work better.
This guide compares five alternatives: Bookmarkify, Raindrop.io, Savee, Milanote, and Are.na. They solve different problems, so the right choice depends on the material you collect and how your team uses it.
I’m Ivan, the designer behind Bookmarkify. I’ve included it where its interactive website previews fit the task. This is a workflow comparison based on published product information, not a hands-on performance ranking.
Eagle is a desktop asset manager for macOS and Windows. It supports a broad range of files, organization through folders and tags, and tools for collecting material from the web. It also supports website bookmarks, so comparing it only as an image folder would miss part of the product.
If your main problem is organizing a large local asset library, evaluate that requirement first. The alternatives below focus on web references, visual collecting, and shared creative research. You might use one alongside Eagle rather than move every asset into it.
Some website references lose their point in a screenshot. The detail you saved might be a menu opening, an image transition, or a page responding as you scroll.
Bookmarkify is a visual bookmark manager with interactive website previews. You can return to a saved reference and explore how it behaves inside the library, subject to the source site’s support for embedded viewing.
That makes it worth trying if much of your inspiration comes from websites. Save a few examples from a current project, browse them in the different views, and check whether you can revisit the details that interested you.
For studios, Bookmarkify Teams adds a shared library where colleagues can collect and organize references together. Boards and shared tags help keep project references understandable, and comments give the team a place to discuss them.
For example, a lead designer could start a board with three navigation directions and invite colleagues to contribute examples before the next review. The useful test is whether everyone can find and explore those references without asking who saved each link.
Bookmarkify is worth considering for this website research workflow. If you need to catalog a large collection of local production files, assess those requirements separately. Live previews also are not permanent archives: the original website can change or disappear.
See Bookmarkify Teams, or read the bookmark manager comparison for design teams.
Raindrop.io saves links with previews and lets you organize them with collections, tags, and notes. It is a candidate when your reference material includes articles, documentation, resources, and websites.
Its shared collections support both contributors and read-only members. Collaboration is available on Free and Pro plans, with accounts required for collaborators.
Try it with the mixed links from one project. Check whether your colleagues can recognize the structure and retrieve the references they need.
Savee focuses on visual inspiration: discovering references, saving them, and organizing them into boards. It also offers shared boards through its Teams plan.
I would shortlist it when the main activity is collecting a visual direction across typography, imagery, color, and composition. Build a board for a real brief and see how comfortably the team moves from discovery to a useful selection.
If interactive website behavior is central to your research, include that in your evaluation as a separate requirement.
Milanote brings notes, images, videos, sketches, and web references together on visual boards. Collaborators can edit, comment, or view them.
Consider it when you want to arrange ideas around a brief and explain how they relate. A project moodboard can hold visual references beside the context that makes them useful.
Start with one direction for one project. See whether the board helps your team discuss and refine that direction before expanding it into a larger library.
Are.na lets you collect webpages, images, text, and files into channels, connect material between collections, and invite collaborators.
It is worth exploring if your research follows themes across disciplines: a channel on public spaces might connect architecture, typography, photography, and writing.
For a studio, try a channel around a shared interest and see whether people continue contributing. That will tell you more about its fit than the size of the collection you import on day one.
Write down what you saved in the last week. The mix gives you a useful starting point:
If you work in a team, have a colleague add and retrieve references too. A tool that suits one collector may need a different structure once several people contribute.
It depends on what you use Eagle for. Bookmarkify is worth considering for website references and shared web inspiration. A local asset library has different requirements, so test those separately before moving it.
Start with the material the studio regularly shares. For live website references, try Bookmarkify Teams. For visual moodboards, compare Savee and Milanote. For mixed research links, look at Raindrop.io or Are.na.
Use a small representative collection first. Include the formats and interactions you rely on, and involve a teammate if sharing matters. Check import and export support before committing to a larger move.
If websites are the part of your library you most want to share, explore Bookmarkify Teams. Build a reference board for your next project and invite another designer to contribute.
Ivan S
Lead Marketing Designer @Scribe, Founder @bookmarkify
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