Betula is a single-user self-hosted federated bookmark manager with Fediverse support and archives.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Publish bookmarks, along with optional title and description/notes formatted with Mycomarkup.
- Add tags to your bookmarks.
- Fediverse:
- Like and repost bookmarks from other Betula instances, and other software, sometimes.
- Other Fediverse software such as Mastodon can follow Betula instances.
- Follow other Betula instances and receive new bookmarks in your Timeline!
- Make archive copies of web pages.
- The whole collection is saved as a single SQLite file.
- Search locally or search your mutuals’ Betula instances.
- Bookmarklet.
- RSS.
- Miniflux integration.
- Bookmarks can be public or private. Share only what you want to share.
- Simple user interface that does not require JavaScript.
- If you have JavaScript, you can use tag autocompletion.
- IndieWeb microformats are produced.
- Simple installation: the program is one binary, the collection is one file, all configuration is done through the web interface.
- Built-in documentation.
Website: codeberg.org/bouncepaw/betula
Support:
Developer: bouncepaw
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Betula is written in Go and JavaScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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