Linkwarden vs Raindrop.io
Linkwarden and Raindrop.io are both bookmark manager software. Linkwarden is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 20k GitHub stars. Raindrop.io is a commercial product from Raindrop.io.
Which to pick
- 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.
- Pick Raindrop.io when
- You want to organise lots of bookmarks visually across browsers and devices.
Side by side
A self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager that saves pages as screenshots, PDFs and readable copies, with collections shared between users and annotation.
A bookmark manager that saves links, articles, images and videos into collections with tags, previews and full-text search on the paid plan.
Archiving every page takes disk space, and the hosted plan is the main funding source, so expect features to suit it.
Run by a very small team, and permanent copies and full-text search need Pro.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server, cloud service and mobile app
Cloud service, browser extension and mobile app
TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL and Meilisearch
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Raindrop.io
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
20k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v2.16.3.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.