Briefkasten is a self-hosted bookmarking application for users who want to manage saved links on their own infrastructure.
It works with Prisma-compatible databases and offers a modern web interface for organising and retrieving bookmarks.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides self-hosted bookmark management.
- Works with Prisma-compatible databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
- Supports categories, tags, and full-text search.
- Can import and export bookmarks in HTML format.
- Supports browser extension-based saving.
- Includes a REST API.
Website: briefkastenhq.com
Support:
Developer: Nico Domino
License: MIT License
Briefkasten is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| 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 |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |