Comparison of browser synchronizers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of Browser synchronizers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on The Stable versions.
General information
Basic general information AbOUT the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.
Creator |
Compatible browsers |
Latest version |
Cost (USD) |
Software license |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BookKit Team |
Firefox, Internet Explorer |
1.0.2, 1.2.1 |
Free |
Proprietary |
|
bookmark-merge (deb) (Perl script) |
Jeremy Buchmann |
Perl |
0.9-2 |
Free |
Free |
rhaebuster |
Firefox |
1.0.7 |
Free |
Unknown |
|
Jack Dean |
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape Mac OS X (IE & Safari) |
2.3.2 |
Free |
Proprietary |
|
Bookmark Base team |
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape |
3.0.0.4 |
$19.95 |
Proprietary |
|
University of Minnesota Undergraduates |
Firefox, Internet Explorer |
3.0 |
Free |
GPL |
|
Google Browser Sync |
Google Inc. |
Firefox |
1.3.20070523.0 |
Free |
Proprietary |
Foxmarks LLC |
Firefox |
2.0.34 |
Free |
Apache License |
|
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL |
4.1.0.954 |
$29.95 |
Proprietary |
||
Network Ltd. |
Firefox (early Alpha), Internet Explorer |
0.80 |
Free |
Proprietary |
|
Henrik Olsson |
Opera, Opera Mini |
1.0.1 |
Free |
GPL |
|
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL |
1.0.0.208 |
$24.95 |
Proprietary |
||
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL |
1.02 |
$14.95 |
Proprietary |
||
Mark Stone |
Firefox, Internet Explorer |
1.0.0 |
$19.95 |
Proprietary |
|
Tiberius Duluman |
XBEL, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, Opera |
0.7.5 |
Free |
GPL |
|
Michael Hardy, Robert Senoff |
Firefox, Internet Explorer |
Beta |
Free |
Proprietary |
Operating system support
The operating systems on which The Browser synchronizers can run natively (without emulation), meaning which operating systems have which software specifically coded for them.
Windows |
Mac OS X |
GNU/Linux |
Other Unix |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chipmark |
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Google Browser Sync |
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Old browser synchronizers
The following browser synchronizers have been reported to no longer work as intended with current browsers.
- Sourceforge BookmarkSync - Updated 2003.
- Bookmarks Synchronizer - Updated 2004.
- FavoriteSync - Synchronized both Internet Explorer favorites and Firefox bookmarks with each other and an outside server, but wasn't updated when Firefox 1.5 came out nor Internet Explorer 7.0.
- iSync - No longer supports Safari bookmarks.
See also
- List of Firefox extensions