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

The 10 best Lightweight bookmarks & read-it-later you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Shiori

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Simple bookmark manager built with Go

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 11.6k Easy setup MIT

Linkding

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Minimal and fast self-hosted bookmark manager

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 11k Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

Buku

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Command-line bookmark manager with tags

Replaces Delicious

★ 7.2k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Shaarli

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Personal, minimalist link-sharing bookmark app

Replaces Pocket, Delicious

★ 3.9k Easy setup GPL-3.0

LittleLink

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Lightweight DIY alternative to Linktree

Replaces Linktree

★ 3k Easy setup MIT

Promnesia

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Browser extension that turns your history into a memory aid

Replaces Pocket, Raindrop.io

★ 1.9k Hard setup MIT

Readeck

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Save and read web content in a personal library

Replaces Pocket, Instapaper

★ 1.1k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Espial

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Open-source self-hosted bookmarking inspired by Pinboard

Replaces Pinboard, Pocket

★ 906 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

GoSuki

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Privacy-first bookmark manager unifying all browsers

Replaces Raindrop.io, Pinboard

★ 536 Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Linka

Bookmarks & Read-It-Later

Fast bookmark manager with keyboard-driven search

Replaces Raindrop.io

★ 33 Easy setup MIT

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