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 web-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 and GUI tools, they are covered in this CLI roundup and GUI roundup.
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.
| Web-Based Bookmark Managers | |
|---|---|
| Linkwarden | Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager |
| Karakeep | Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI |
| Shiori | Simple bookmarks manager written in Go |
| linkding | Designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker |
| wallabag | Web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading |
| Shaarli | Minimalist, super fast, database-free, bookmarking service |
| LinkAce | Self-hosted archive to collect links of websites |
| Servas | Based on Laravel and Inertia.jsl Tailwind CSS and Svelte for the frontend |
| Otter | Made with Next.js and Supabase with Mastodon integration. |
| Reminiscence | Self-hosted bookmark and archive manager |
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