Is Marqly free?

Yes. Marqly has a free tier, and you don’t need a credit card to sign up. The free plan covers the core experience: save articles, videos and links from your browser, organise them into boards, highlight what matters, and search what you’ve saved by keyword. It gives you access to everything you save, up to 100 bookmarks. Every AI feature is Pro — auto-tagging, summaries, semantic search and chat — at $72 per year or $9 per month.

What you get without paying

The free tier is a working bookmark manager, not a demo. You can save pages with one click from the extension, file them into boards, highlight in six colours, share a board publicly, and search by keyword. What it does not include is the AI: tagging, summaries and search-by-meaning are all Pro.

One limit is worth knowing before you sign up: the free tier holds up to 100 bookmarks. You can read and search every one of them — there is no cap on what you can reach. What Pro adds is the AI layer: semantic search that finds things by meaning rather than keyword, auto-tagging and summaries on every save, and answers pulled from your own library.

Signing up takes a minute at app.marqly.com, and because no card is required, there is nothing that can silently start charging you later.

When Pro makes sense

Pro removes the 100-bookmark ceiling and adds the entire AI layer: auto-tagging and summaries on every save, semantic search across your whole library, answers pulled from your saved content, and chat with YouTube videos through their transcripts. If you keep a small working set and are happy filing it yourself, free covers you. If you want the filing done for you, or to find “that video about sourdough starters” without remembering the title, that’s the Pro tier. The full breakdown is in free vs Pro.

Upgrading to Pro

There’s no trial — you unlock the AI by upgrading to Pro, billed from that moment, and you can cancel anytime. If you cancel, you drop back to the free tier — your saves stay put, nothing is deleted. Details on what happens when you cancel Pro.

Bottom line

Free is genuinely free: no card, no time limit on the plan itself, and your saves are always yours to export. Current pricing is always on the pricing page. If you’re comparing options before committing, the best AI bookmark managers of 2026 roundup shows where Marqly’s free tier stands against alternatives.