Shows its work
Every dead link comes with its reason: HTTP 404, Host not found, Timeout. No black-box score, no guessing why.
Every bookmark, checked
Dead means dead, not just slow.
Lookmark visits each bookmark, a dozen at a time, and listens to what comes back. A domain that no longer exists is dead. A page that says "not found" is dead. A site that's busy for a minute is not. You choose how strict to be.
Dead only on 404 / 410. Everything else reachable = alive.
404Not found
410Gone for good
401Needs a login
403Forbidden
503Server trouble
Always dead
- The site's name no longer exists
- The server refuses to connect
- No answer before your timeout (10 seconds, or anywhere from 3 to 30)
Never counted against a link
- Certificate problems: the site is there, just misconfigured
- A connection that drops halfway
- Your own Wi-Fi going down: the scan stops and nothing changes
Look before you leap
See where a link goes before you decide.
A status code doesn't tell the whole story. Click any dead link and Lookmark opens it right beside the list, so you can tell an honest error page from a domain parked by squatters, or from a site that turns out to be fine.
- Everything starts selected — uncheck anything you'd rather keep as it is.
- Open in Safari — one click when you want a closer look.
- Bookmarklets are left alone — so is your Reading List, and anything you already set aside.
Couldn't load this pageHost not found. Really gone.
Move
FOR SALE
A parked domainLoads fine, but the old site is gone.
Move
The real pageBlocked the check, works in a browser.
Keep
Rescue from the archive
Gone from the web. Not from your bookmarks.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has been saving the web since 1996. Turn on archive.org restore, and when you select a dead link Lookmark looks up its closest snapshot. If there is one, check Restore and your bookmark points at the saved copy instead, right where it always was.
- Compare Live and Archived — flip between them in the preview.
- Same title, same folder — only the address changes, to a secure https link.
- Your call, row by row — restore some, move the rest, in one step.
breadnotes.blog/starter-101 · snapshots by year
Was
https://breadnotes.blog/starter-101Now
https://web.archive.org/web/20210614/https://breadnotes.blog/starter-101Careful with what's yours
Nothing deleted. Everything backed up.
Your bookmarks are years of your life, so Lookmark treats them that way. Dead links aren't thrown out; they're moved into a Dead Links folder in Safari, where you can look them over and delete them yourself, whenever you like.
A backup before every changeEach one is dated and kept in Lookmark's own folder, out of Safari's and iCloud's way.
Undo with one clickRestore from any backup. Lookmark backs up first, so even that can be undone.
Every detail keptIcons, folders, iCloud sync data: Lookmark changes only what you asked it to.
Waits for SafariSafari can overwrite outside edits while it's open, so Lookmark asks you to quit it first, and can do it for you.
Why Lookmark
A tidy library, on your terms.
Lookmark is a small, single-purpose Mac app. It does one job, shows its work, and leaves the final say to you.
You decide
Strictness, timeout, which links to move and which to rescue: all yours. Lookmark suggests. It never cleans up behind your back.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no analytics, no typif.ai servers. Lookmark only contacts the sites you bookmarked, plus archive.org when you ask it to.
Coming soon for Mac
Find out what's still there.
Lookmark is almost ready. A native Mac app for Safari's bookmarks, on macOS 13 Ventura or later.