20 self-hosted Pinboard alternatives

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 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 17 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 10 Jul 2026Actively maintained

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 18 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 16 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted, single-user bookmark manager and link sharing app with tags, search, RSS/Atom feeds, REST API, and plugins—using file-based storage (no database).

3.9k stars313 forkslast commit 11 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Feedbin is a web-based RSS reader for organizing and reading feeds with full-text extraction, powerful search, filtering actions, and a REST-like API for clients.

3.8k stars290 forksMITlast commit 12 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Pinry is an open-source tiling image board to save, tag, and share images, videos, and web pages, with multi-user support and a full API.

3.4k stars372 forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit 9 Jul 2025Slowing down

LinkAce is a self-hosted bookmark archive to save, organize, monitor, and share web links with tags, lists, search, RSS feeds, and a REST API.

3.3k stars205 forksGPL-3.0last commit 3 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 25 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Open-source, self-hosted bookmarking app with tags, import/export, full-text search, REST API, OAuth and browser extension support.

1.2k stars49 forksMITlast commit 18 Jun 2026Actively maintained

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 26 Jul 2026Actively maintained

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 5 Jan 2026Slowing down

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 15 Apr 2026Actively maintained

Postmarks is a self-hosted, single-user bookmark manager that publishes and federates bookmarks over ActivityPub with Mastodon-compatible platforms.

546 stars43 forksMITlast commit 15 May 2026Actively maintained

Simple self-hosted bookmark service with React frontend, Fastify backend and SQLite. Docker-ready and optimized for low-resource devices like Raspberry Pi.

410 stars24 forksMITlast commit 9 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Open-source, self-hosted toolbox for bookmarks, URL shortening, and encrypted image hosting, with optional hosted service and browser/mobile integrations.

392 stars35 forksGPL-3.0last commit 18 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Refeed is an open-source RSS reader that provides timed bookmarks, filters, notes, newsletter-to-RSS conversion, full-content fetching, and mobile apps.

181 stars6 forksMITlast commit 26 Jun 2025Slowing down

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 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Lightweight Rust service that accepts links via HTTP, extracts metadata, and serves a consumable Atom/RSS feed for read-later workflows. Supports token auth, browser/mobile shortcuts, and Docker.

112 stars7 forksApache-2.0last commit 4 Jan 2026Slowing down