Free tools
Five tools for X that run entirely in your browser
Every one of these does its work in the tab you are reading. There is no sign-up, no upload endpoint and no call to X's API — so nothing you type or open is sent anywhere, and none of them can cost us anything to run. Open your browser's network panel and use one: the only requests are for the page's own code, and none of them carries your data. That is the only kind of privacy claim worth making, because you can check it.
Why these five, and why free
We built Sift because reading someone's X bookmarks costs real money — X charges per resource returned, not per request — and most of what is written about that pricing predates the February 2026 move to pay-per-use. Working that out meant establishing a lot of small facts from X's own documentation: how a post is counted, what a link costs against the 280-character limit, whether the official data archive contains bookmarks (it does not), and what a page of results actually bills.
These tools are those answers, made usable. They cost nothing to host because they run on your machine, which is also why they can promise that nothing leaves it. The trade-off is honest and worth stating: a browser tool cannot see your X account, so it cannot fetch your bookmarks — that needs the API, and the API needs money. What it can do is everything that only needs your own text and your own files.
What "in the browser" rules out
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to remember, no email address collected.
- No upload. Files you open with the converter or the archive explorer are read by the page itself and held in memory. Close the tab and they are gone.
- No X API call. None of these tools can read your account, so none of them needs — or asks for — permission to.
- No server-side validation. The character counter implements X's published counting rules faithfully, but X validates a real post itself. Ours is the best available answer before you press post, not the final one.
The paid part is the bit a browser cannot do
Sift connects to your X account read-only, imports the posts you saved, sorts them into categories and emails you a digest. The free plan imports your newest 100 bookmarks — a real cap, not a trial window, because each one costs us $0.005 to read.