How to Export Brave Bookmarks in 2026 (Bookmark Manager → Export, Step by Step)

Open Brave’s main menu → Bookmarks → Bookmarks Manager, hit the three-dot menu at the top right, and choose Export: Brave writes one HTML file with every bookmark, folder, and date. Because Brave is Chromium, that file is byte-for-byte the same format Chrome exports — the universal Netscape bookmark HTML — so Marqly and every other bookmark tool take it with zero conversion. Brave’s own help center documents this exact path as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360019782291-How-do-I-import-or-export-browsing-data. The wrinkles are Brave Sync’s limits, profiles, and mobile. Here is the full route, what lands in the file, and how to use it.

Your export routes from Brave

Route	What you get	File format	Limits and costs	Gotcha
Bookmarks Manager → ⋮ → Export (desktop)	All bookmarks, folders, titles, add dates	Netscape bookmark HTML — identical to Chrome’s	Free, instant	Current profile only — each Brave profile keeps its own set
Menu → Show All Bookmarks → Share → Export (iOS)	The bookmarks list on your phone/tablet	Same .html	Free	Must be at the root level of the list before exporting, per Brave’s help center
Brave Sync	Live mirroring across devices that share your sync chain	No file	Free	Not an export — nothing outside your sync chain can read it
Import bookmarks & settings (main menu)	The reverse direction (into Brave)	Reads HTML	Free	Confirms HTML is Brave’s interchange format both ways
Android / other platforms	Brave’s help center documents desktop and iOS explicitly	—	—	Verify your platform’s path in the same article before relying on it

Step by step: exporting bookmarks from Brave on desktop

1. Open the bookmark manager. Main menu (the hamburger at the top right) → Bookmarks → Bookmarks Manager, or type brave://bookmarks in the address bar — the internal page works like Chrome’s.
2. Check which profile is active. Brave keeps bookmarks per profile. If you run separate work/personal profiles, export from each one; a single export covers only what the current profile sees.
3. Click the More options menu — the three dots at the top right of the bookmark manager page (not the browser’s main menu).
4. Select Export. Brave opens a save dialog.
5. Save the HTML file and give it a dated name if you plan to keep regular snapshots — brave-bookmarks-2026-10-05.html beats an overwriting bookmarks.html.
6. Verify it. Open the file in a browser: a simple page lists every link under folder headings. Quick structural check: paste it into the free Bookmark File Viewer to see counts and nesting before importing anywhere.
7. On iPhone or iPad, Brave documents the alternate path — Menu → Show All Bookmarks → the Share icon at the bottom left → Import or Export → save the .html to Files, as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360057082371-How-do-I-Import-or-Export-Bookmarks-on-iOS. Brave’s note that you “need to upload the bookmark file to Files before importing” and must be “at root level” cuts both ways — the same file you export is the file another app can take.

What the file actually contains

Because Brave is Chromium, its export is the Chrome bookmark file — same skeleton, same fields:

• <!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1> header, <meta> tag.
• <DL> nesting for your folder tree: “Bookmarks bar”, “Other bookmarks”, and any mobile-bookmarked folder each appear as an <H3> with nested <DL> content.
• <DT><A HREF="…" ADD_DATE="…" LAST_MODIFIED="…">Title</A> per bookmark — ADD_DATE is the Unix epoch of when you saved it, and an ICON attribute carries the favicon data.
• TAGS is empty. Chromium never had a tags feature; if your organizing depended on tags, that is a Firefox export’s advantage, not Brave’s.
• No page text, no passwords, no history — links, titles, folders, dates.

The practical reading: if you moved from Chrome to Brave, your new export is interchangeable with your old Chrome export; if you are moving out of Brave, the Chrome import guide applies to your Brave file verbatim, because “import Chrome bookmarks” tools are all reading this same format.

What to do with the export: the Marqly bridge

Marqly’s importer accepts browser bookmark HTML directly — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari — and a Brave file is a Chromium/Chrome-style file, so upload it as-is. No rename, no converter. The verified envelope, stated honestly:

• Size limits: 10 MB per file on the free plan, 30 MB on Pro; 10,000 bookmarks max per file. A single-file mega-collection can exceed this — split by folder or export profile separately.
• Dates: the file preserves every ADD_DATE, but the import does not — items take the import date. Keep the HTML as your chronological record.
• Tags: free-plan imports keep the tags in the file (Brave files have none); AI auto-tagging of imported pages is a Pro feature.
• Dedupe: imports do not dedupe. Re-importing the same file twice gives you twice the bookmarks. Clean up afterward with the Duplicate Bookmark Finder rather than hoping the importer is clever.

Where Marqly earns its keep for Brave users is on the other side of import: it reads each saved page, so the pile becomes searchable by description instead of by the folder you half-remember — the core argument of how to organize bookmarks and of the Chrome bookmark manager it replaces. Brave collectors who also save from their phone will want the iOS app side of the story. And if Brave is one of several browsers you have accumulated, fold this file into the all-browser backup workflow.

When NOT to use Marqly for this

• A one-off browser-to-browser move. Export the HTML, import it into the destination browser, done. A manager between two browsers adds a step with no gain.
• You live inside Brave Sync and love it. Sync’s no-file design is also its privacy posture — everything stays end-to-end between your devices. If you want exactly that and nothing more, keep it.
• Your saved links are mostly ephemeral (a tab you’ll read tonight). Bookmarks you’ll delete next week don’t need a searchable library.
• You want a complete data escrow of Brave. Export covers bookmarks only — no history, logins, or settings. An HTML bookmark file plus your own notes is the escrow; nothing named “bookmark manager,” including Marqly, is a Brave-settings backup.

FAQs

How do I export bookmarks from Brave? Main menu → Bookmarks → Bookmarks Manager → three-dot menu at the top right → Export, then save the HTML file. Brave’s help center documents exactly these steps. On iOS: Menu → Show All Bookmarks → Share icon → Import or Export.

Is the Brave export the same as Chrome’s? Identical in format — Brave is Chromium, so both write the same Netscape HTML. Anything that reads a Chrome export reads a Brave export: browsers, managers, and Marqly.

Does Brave Sync back up my bookmarks? It mirrors them across your sync-chain devices, which is useful, but it produces no file and is readable by nothing outside the chain. For anything portable or restorable elsewhere, use Export.

Will folders and tags survive? Folders: yes — they travel in the file and importers map them. Tags: there are none to carry, since Chromium never offered bookmark tags. Dates: preserved inside the HTML, but importers (Marqly included) stamp items with the import date instead.

What if my export file is too big to import? Check the destination’s limits — for Marqly that is 10 MB free / 30 MB Pro and 10,000 bookmarks per file. Split large sets by profile or prune dead links with the duplicate finder before re-exporting; half the bulk is usually years-old duplicates of the same URL.

Recap

1. Bookmarks Manager → three dots → Export → dated .html. Profiles one at a time; iOS uses the Share → Export path.
2. The file is Chrome-format Netscape HTML: links, titles, folders, dates, no tags, no page content.
3. Import it anywhere that accepts browser bookmarks — including straight back into Chrome or Edge.
4. In Marqly it goes in as-is, with dates resetting to import day and dedupe left to you: honest limits, one-time job, and a pile that finally gets searchable.