#1
Self-hostable bookmark-everything app for links, notes, images, PDFs, and archives with full-text search, AI tagging/summaries, RSS ingestion, and API access.
28.6k stars1.5k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
11 self-hosted Oku alternatives
Oku is a cross-device reading and bookmarking app for saving links, subscribing to RSS feeds and newsletters, highlighting and tagging articles, and organizing a personal read-it-later library with sync and search.
Alternatives to Oku
Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with reader mode, highlights, tagging, full-text search, and automatic webpage preservation as screenshots and PDFs.
19.6k stars831 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#3
Shiori is a lightweight bookmark manager with a web interface and CLI, full-text search, imports from Pocket/Netscape, and optional offline archiving of saved pages.
11.6k stars626 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#4
Self-hosted bookmark manager with tagging, notes, read-it-later, sharing, archiving, import/export, browser extensions, and a REST API.
11.1k stars597 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#5
Buku is a fast, privacy-focused CLI bookmark manager storing bookmarks in a portable SQLite DB. It supports imports/exports, smart tagging, regex search and an optional web UI.
7.2k stars321 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#6
Grimoire is a self-hosted bookmark manager with tags, categories, fuzzy search, per-user libraries, metadata fetching, notes, and an integration API.
2.8k stars84 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#7
Open-source, web-based bookmarking server with multi-user support, bookmarklet capture, and SQLite storage for easy self-hosting and maintenance.
913 stars32 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#8
Ephemera is a self-hosted web app for saving, organizing, and retaining links with searchable metadata, designed for personal or small-team link archiving.
872 stars25 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
#9
Self-hosted bookmark manager with tags, nested groups, smart groups, multi-user support, import/export, and browser extensions for quick saving.
830 stars36 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#10
Single-user self-hosted federated bookmark manager written in Go, using a single SQLite file, with ActivityPub support, web archiving, RSS and tagging.
138 stars5 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#11
Open-source read-it-later and bookmark manager with full-text extraction, highlights, collections, e-book export, and SQLite/PostgreSQL support.
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What replacing Oku actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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