Pocket, formerly known as Read It Later, is a social bookmarking service for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks. Mozilla is shutting down Pocket’s services on July 8, 2025. At that time users will no longer be able to access the Pocket website, apps and API.
As Pocket is not open source software, users will need to migrate away. In this article, we focus on open source GUI-based bookmark managers. The featured software lets you effectively manage your bookmarks for websites. Hopefully, there’s something here to meet your specific requirements.
If you’re looking for CLI tools, they are covered in this roundup. We’ll be compiling a separate roundup for web-based tools shortly
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
Click the links in the table below to learn more about each bookmark manager.
| GUI Bookmark Managers | |
|---|---|
| KEditBookmarks | Bookmark organizer and editor |
| Sitemarker | Basic bookmark manager |
| Cosmicding | Client to manage your linkding bookmarks |
| Frigoligo | Wallabag client |
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