linkwarden

⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.

⭐ 20,202 stars on GitHub · 🍴 877 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is linkwarden?

A standout opensource self-host project on GitHub — host on your own server for full control over your data and costs.

Main components

• 📸 Auto capture a screenshot, PDF, and single html file of each webpage
• 📖 Reader view of the webpage, with the ability to highlight and annotate text
• 🏛️ Send your webpage to Wayback Machine (archive.org) for a snapshot (optional)
• ✨ Local AI Tagging to automatically tag your links based on their content (optional)
• 📂 Organize links by collection, sub-collection, name, description and multiple tags
• 👥 Collaborate on gathering links in a collection
• 🎛️ Customize the permissions of each member
• 🌐 Share your collected links and preserved formats with the world

The biggest strength is active opensource community — fast bug fixes, regular features, no abandonment risk.

Best for self-host enthusiasts wanting to try a strong-community opensource project.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ bookmark
• 🏷️ bookmark-manager
• 🏷️ collaboration
• 🏷️ nextjs
• 🏷️ react-native
• 🏷️ read-it-later
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ typescript

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden.git
cd linkwarden
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

⚡ Deploy fast on VSIS

Use the VSIS VPS Mini 1GB RAM / 1 vCPU / 15GB SSD (~70k/tháng) plan from VSIS.NET — high-speed VN-based VPS, 24/7 support, ideal for running linkwarden smoothly.

🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: linkwarden/linkwarden
• 🌐 Homepage: https://linkwarden.app
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 24/10/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.