Karakeep vs Linkwarden
Karakeep and Linkwarden are both bookmark manager software. Karakeep is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 30k GitHub stars. Linkwarden is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 20k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Karakeep when
- You want a self-hosted replacement for Pocket or Raindrop with automatic tagging.
- Pick Linkwarden when
- 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.
Side by side
A self-hosted bookmark and read-it-later app for links, notes and images, with AI tagging, full-text search, page archiving and browser and mobile clients.
A self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager that saves pages as screenshots, PDFs and readable copies, with collections shared between users and annotation.
AI tagging needs an OpenAI key or a local Ollama model, and the stack (Meilisearch, headless Chrome) uses noticeable resources.
Archiving every page takes disk space, and the hosted plan is the main funding source, so expect features to suit it.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server, mobile app and browser extension
Self-hosted server, cloud service and mobile app
TypeScript, Next.js, React Native, SQLite and Meilisearch
TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL and Meilisearch
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
30k GitHub stars
20k GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.34.1.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v2.16.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.