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Best API Bookmarks & Read-It-Later for self-hosting

The 9 best API bookmarks & read-it-later you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Karakeep

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Self-hosted bookmark everything app with AI tagging

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 28.2k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

ArchiveBox

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Self-hosted web archiving from bookmarks and feeds

Replaces Pocket

★ 28.1k Medium setup MIT

Linkwarden

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Collaborative bookmark manager with page archiving

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 19.4k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Omnivore

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Read-it-later app with highlights and newsletter support

Replaces Pocket, Instapaper

★ 16.2k Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Wallabag

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Self-hosted read-it-later application

Replaces Pocket, Instapaper

★ 12.9k Medium setup MIT

Linkding

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Minimal and fast self-hosted bookmark manager

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 11k Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

Pinry

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Tiling image board and bookmark system for visual collections

Replaces Pinterest, Raindrop.io

★ 3.4k Medium setup BSD-2-Clause

Grimoire

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Bookmark manager for your reading list and inspiration

Replaces Raindrop.io, Pocket

★ 2.8k Medium setup MIT

Bookmark dashboard nono Benotes

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Note and bookmark application with a Trello-like layout

Replaces Raindrop.io, Pocket

★ 857 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged API within the bookmarks & read-it-later category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.