Bookmark managers in 2026
3 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Instapaper has the most readers, about 402 a month. 30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Karakeep leads with 30k stars, ahead of SingleFile. 26 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (14), AGPL-3.0 (8) and GPL-3.0 (5).
Commercial bookmark managers
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Instapaper Instant Paper
A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on iOS, Android, computer, or eReaders.
Complete system Production-ready You want a simple, distraction-free read-it-later app and do not need note-app integration.
402 readers a month Since 2008 Commercial -
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Readwise Reader Readwise
Complete system Production-ready You read a lot online and want highlights and notes from everything flowing into your note-taking system.
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Raindrop.io Raindrop.io
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Complete system Production-ready You want to organise lots of bookmarks visually across browsers and devices.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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Linkit blue-idea
AI bookmark manager for desktop — local-first, offline, read-it-later and PKM tool with AI summaries, semantic search, knowledge graph, and free self-hosted sync. 100% free, no paywalls, no ads.
Complete system Experimental You want an offline desktop bookmark library with AI search and are happy to try a new project.
★ 119 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 2 days ago
Open-source bookmark managers
Complete systems you can adopt 9
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Karakeep karakeep-app
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
Complete system Usable You want a self-hosted replacement for Pocket or Raindrop with automatic tagging.
★ 30k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday -
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SingleFile gildas-lormeau
Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file
Complete system Production-ready You need faithful offline copies of web pages for reference, evidence or archiving.
★ 23k AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed today -
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Linkwarden linkwarden
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
Complete system Production-ready You or a team want to collect and permanently preserve web pages together, with a hosted option if you do not want to run it.
★ 20k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 8 days ago -
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Omnivore omnivore-app
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.
Complete system Usable You want to self-host a full-featured reading app and are prepared to run its whole stack yourself.
★ 16k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday -
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Wallabag wallabag
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
Complete system Production-ready You want a mature, open-source Pocket replacement on your own server or on the paid wallabag.it hosting.
★ 13k MIT PHP Active, pushed today -
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Shiori go-shiori
Simple bookmark manager built with Go
Complete system Usable You want a minimal, Pocket-like bookmark store that is trivial to deploy.
★ 12k MIT Go Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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Linkding sissbruecker
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
Complete system Production-ready You want fast, low-maintenance bookmarking in one Docker container.
★ 11k MIT Python Active, pushed 8 days ago -
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LinkAce Kovah
LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.
Complete system Production-ready You want a long-term personal link library that checks for dead links.
★ 3.4k GPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today -
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Grimoire goniszewski
Bookmark manager for the wizards 🧙
Complete system Usable You want a good-looking self-hosted bookmark app and like trying newer projects.
★ 2.9k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
Developer tools 1
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Buku jarun
:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text
Developer tool Production-ready You work in the terminal and want bookmarks that are scriptable and browser-independent.
★ 7.2k GPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 2 days ago
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 16. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Network copyleft: 8. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Strong copyleft: 5. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Weak copyleft: 1. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
TypeScript 10, JavaScript 8, Go 3, Python 3, PHP 2, Svelte 1, Rust 1, Swift 1 and Dart 1.
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