Do you find yourself copying and pasting the same few links over and over? Your website, your newsletter, your socials, your booking page, your affiliate links? Most of the time, that means hunting through your browser history, an old note, your own bio page or a clunky, bloated bookmarking app before you can even copy the link.

If you're like me, that happens many times a day. It's a small bit of friction, but it's repeated constantly.

So I built Kepar: a home for the dozen links you paste every day, always on hand.

The origin story

As a product designer, writer, side-project enthusiast and builder, I kept copying and pasting the same links several times a day, every single day. If you create a lot, getting to the right link quickly is surprisingly hard. Sure, there are browser bookmarks and bookmark managers. But finding and copying the right link with them always felt clunky, bloated and in my way.

I wanted something simpler and more focused. Not a digital graveyard of links I'd probably never revisit, but quick and easy access to the links I share over and over again.

I tried bookmark managers and note-taking apps, and I almost found my answer in Tot by The Iconfactory. It gave me simple input and a dedicated dot just for my links, but copying them still felt clunky.

And honestly, this was also a great opportunity to just build something: something that gets me excited, something I can experiment with, and something I can show on my own website.

What Kepar is, and what it deliberately isn't

Kepar is an app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that gives you a small, fast place for the 5 to 50 links you keep copying and pasting. It's built around one loop: summon → find → copy → gone, in under two seconds.

Kepar is deliberately not yet another bookmark manager where your links disappear into a digital graveyard. It isn't a read-later app or an archive either. There are no tags, no nested folders and no link-rot checking. Leaving those out isn't a limitation. It's the feature.

Every idea for Kepar had to pass one question: Does it make finding or copying a link faster? If the answer was no, it didn't make it in.

Copying is the main action

I didn't only want to keep Kepar's features and interface simple. I wanted copying to be the main action, with everything else staying out of its way.

On the Mac, that became the quick panel. Press ⌥⌘K from any app, type a few letters and press Return, and the link is on your clipboard. Press ⇧Return instead, and Kepar pastes it straight into the app you were just using. On iPhone and iPad, you simply tap a link and it's copied.

Copying should feel good, too. When you copy a link, a checkmark springs into place and the row briefly reads “Copied”. On iPhone and iPad, you also feel a light haptic tap, and VoiceOver announces what you just copied.

You don't even have to open Kepar to copy a link. It lives in the menu bar, in widgets and in Control Center, it shows up in Spotlight, and it works with Shortcuts and Siri: just say “Copy Creativerly with Kepar”. And when you need more than the plain URL, you can copy a link as Markdown or as title and link, or show it as a QR code.

Your links, exactly as you saved them

Creators juggle lots of links with tracking and affiliate parameters. Some bookmark managers and link tools strip those parameters when you save a link. I get the idea behind “clean” URLs, but it quietly breaks referral codes.

Kepar never changes a link. Whatever you save, tracking and affiliate parameters included, stays exactly as it is, so your referral codes keep working.

Just enough organisation

Even though I wanted Kepar to be as simple as possible, it needed some organisation. I settled on a single level of folders, each with its own SF Symbol and colour, such as Socials, Affiliate or Work. It's a small touch, but it gives every group a clear, simple visual identity.

Every link can also carry a one-line note, which is perfect for a discount code or a reminder of when to use it. Search covers every folder, so you rarely need to think about where something lives. Adding links is quick too: paste a URL, drag one in, or use “Add to Kepar” from the share sheet in Safari or any other app.

Everywhere you are

Kepar is a native app on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and your links sync between them through your private iCloud database. Save a link on your Mac, and it's waiting on your iPhone shortly after.

You can try Kepar for free with up to 10 links and 2 folders, and every feature is included. If it earns a place in your day, a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited links and folders on all your devices, and it works with Family Sharing. There's no subscription. The launch price is €4.99 until 31 December 2026. After that, it goes up to €9.99.

Privacy and ownership

Kepar doesn't need an account, and it has no analytics and no tracking. I never see your links. They live on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Besides iCloud sync, the only network requests Kepar makes go to the websites you save, to fetch their title and icon. That's it.

Your links are also yours to take with you. You can import them from your browser's bookmarks, a CSV file or a JSON file, and export everything as JSON or CSV at any time. If Kepar ever stops being the right tool for you, your links shouldn't be stuck in it.

Try Kepar

Kepar is available now on the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad: Download Kepar. You'll find more about it at kepar.philipptemmel.com.

It's for anyone who shares the same links again and again: creators, freelancers, support teams, and anyone with a “link in bio”.

I'd love to hear what you think. Reply to me on Mastodon or Bluesky, or email me at hello@philipptemmel.com. Every bit of feedback helps shape what comes next.