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

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

Bookmark Sync and Sort

rhaebuster

Firefox

1.0.7

Free

Unknown

BookmarkSync

Jack Dean

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape Mac OS X (IE & Safari)

2.3.2

Free

Proprietary

Bookmark Base

Bookmark Base team

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape

3.0.0.4

$19.95

Proprietary

Chipmark

University of Minnesota Undergraduates

Firefox, Internet Explorer

3.0

Free

GPL

Google Browser Sync

Google Inc.

Firefox

1.3.20070523.0

Free

Proprietary

Foxmarks

Foxmarks LLC

Firefox

2.0.34

Free

Apache License

Link Commander

Resort Labs

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL

4.1.0.954

$29.95

Proprietary

Network Menus

Network Ltd.

Firefox (early Alpha), Internet Explorer

0.80

Free

Proprietary

oSync

Henrik Olsson

Opera, Opera Mini

1.0.1

Free

GPL

Portable Bookmarks

Resort Labs

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL

1.0.0.208

$24.95

Proprietary

SyncBookmarks

StellarFlare

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, XBEL

1.02

$14.95

Proprietary

Xbel bookmark manager

Mark Stone

Firefox, Internet Explorer

1.0.0

$19.95

Proprietary

xbelSync

Tiberius Duluman

XBEL, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, Opera

0.7.5

Free

GPL

Zinkmo

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

BookKit

Bookmark Sync and Sort

BookmarkSync

Chipmark

Google Browser Sync

Foxmarks

Bookmark Base

Link Commander

Network Menus

oSync

Portable Bookmarks

SyncBookmarks

Xbel bookmark manager

xbelSync

Zinkmo

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