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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.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
ShioriUnder-an-hour setupEasy128 MBMIT11,670
Linkding≈5-minute setupEasy256 MBBSD-3-Clause11,297
BukuRead-the-docs projectEasy64 MBGPL-3.07,220
ShaarliUnder-an-hour setupEasy128 MBGPL-3.03,907
LittleLinkRead-the-docs projectEasy32 MBMIT3,099
PromnesiaRead-the-docs projectHard256 MBMIT1,903
ReadeckUnder-an-hour setupEasy256 MBAGPL-3.01,100
EspialUnder-an-hour setupMedium128 MBAGPL-3.0922
GoSukiRead-the-docs projectEasy64 MBAGPL-3.0555
LinkaUnder-an-hour setupEasy256 MBMIT33

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Lightweight within the bookmarks & read-it-later category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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