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Linkwarden
Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with full webpage preservation
Collect, organize, and preserve webpages with automatic screenshots, PDFs, and archives. Collaborate with teams, annotate content, and ensure your bookmarks never disappear.
Overview
Bookmarks That Never Disappear
Linkwarden is a self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager designed to combat link rot while providing a powerful organizational and reading experience. It automatically captures screenshots, PDFs, and HTML snapshots of every webpage you save, ensuring your content remains accessible even when the original source vanishes from the web.
Built for Knowledge Workers and Teams
Whether you're a researcher archiving sources, a team curating resources, or an individual building a personal knowledge base, Linkwarden combines the simplicity of read-it-later tools with the reliability of web archives. The built-in reader view lets you highlight passages, add annotations, and revisit content in a distraction-free environment. Organize bookmarks into collections and sub-collections, tag them automatically with optional local AI, and search across full text.
Collaborative by Design
Share collections publicly or invite team members with customizable permissions. Import existing bookmarks, sync across browsers using Floccus, and access everything through responsive web, PWA, or community-built mobile apps. Optional integrations include Wayback Machine archiving, SSO for enterprises, RSS subscriptions, and API access for automation.
Highlights
Automatic webpage preservation as screenshot, PDF, and HTML archive
Reader view with text highlighting and annotation capabilities
Collaborative collections with granular member permissions
Full-text search across bookmarks and archived content
Pros
- Comprehensive preservation prevents link rot with multiple format captures
- Self-hosted deployment ensures full data ownership and privacy
- Active development with strong community support and mobile apps
- Optional local AI tagging and Wayback Machine integration
Considerations
- Requires self-hosting infrastructure or paid cloud subscription
- Storage requirements grow with archived screenshots and PDFs
- Advanced features like SSO limited to enterprise and self-hosted tiers
- Initial setup complexity compared to cloud-only bookmark services
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Fit guide
Great for
- Research teams archiving sources for long-term reference
- Knowledge workers building personal reference libraries
- Organizations requiring self-hosted bookmark management with collaboration
- Users concerned about link rot and content preservation
Not ideal when
- Users seeking zero-configuration cloud-only solutions without self-hosting
- Individuals with limited storage capacity for archived content
- Teams requiring real-time collaborative editing within bookmarks
- Users needing native mobile apps without community alternatives
How teams use it
Academic Research Archive
Researchers preserve cited sources with annotations, ensuring thesis references remain accessible years after publication
Team Knowledge Base
Marketing teams curate industry articles in shared collections with highlights, maintaining institutional knowledge as members rotate
Legal Case Documentation
Law firms archive web evidence as timestamped PDFs and screenshots, creating defensible records for litigation
Content Curation Workflow
Bloggers collect inspiration with AI tags and reader annotations, then export organized references for article creation
Tech snapshot
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Frequently asked questions
How does Linkwarden prevent link rot?
Linkwarden automatically captures three preservation formats for every bookmark: a screenshot, PDF, and single HTML file. If the original webpage disappears, you retain full access to the archived versions. Optional Wayback Machine integration adds an additional layer of preservation.
Can I use Linkwarden without self-hosting?
Yes, Linkwarden offers an official cloud subscription that handles hosting and maintenance. This supports ongoing development while providing immediate access without infrastructure setup.
Does Linkwarden support team collaboration?
Yes, you can create collections and invite multiple users with customizable permissions. Share links publicly or restrict access to specific team members for private collaboration.
What browsers and platforms are supported?
Linkwarden works in most modern browsers with a dedicated browser extension. It's also available as a PWA and through community-built iOS, macOS, and Android applications for mobile access.
How does the AI tagging feature work?
The optional local AI tagging analyzes bookmark content and automatically suggests relevant tags. This runs locally on your instance, keeping your data private while improving organization.
Project at a glance
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LicenseAGPL-3.0
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