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Espial

Open-source self-hosted bookmarking inspired by Pinboard

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later ★ 922 stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Espial is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server that you can deploy yourself. It is inspired by Pinboard and supports tagging, private and public bookmarks, and import from Pinboard.

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Key features

  • Pinboard-style bookmarking
  • Public and private bookmarks
  • Pinboard import support

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in Haskell
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Espial secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Espial's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Espial replaces

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