Pocket AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Bookmark Managers

The best open source Bookmark Manager alternative to Pocket is Karakeep. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Pocket and 13 are open source Bookmark Managers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Bookmark Manager alternatives to Pocket are Obsidian Web Clipper, ArchiveBox, Linkwarden and Curio.

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  1. Karakeep icon
     93 likes

    Self-hostable, open-source tool for organizing bookmarks, notes, and images with automatic AI tagging, full-text search, Chrome plugin, web dark mode, and iOS support planned. Fetches titles and descriptions, sorts by lists, and is designed for privacy-focused users.

    107 Karakeep alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. Obsidian Web Clipper saves web content into your personal vault, ensuring offline access. Use customizable templates, smart triggers, and select page content to clip. Preserves data in Markdown, providing a secure, private, and durable format for organizing linked notes.

    53 Obsidian Web Clipper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  3. ArchiveBox icon
     86 likes

    Self-hosted archiving platform storing web content as HTML, PDFs, screenshots, media, and WARC files; imports links from bookmarks, RSS, or files; supports browser history, complex sites, JSON indexing, Git repo archiving, regular scheduling, and offline browsing.

    68 ArchiveBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  4. Curio icon
     29 likes

    Capture web links and newsletters, organize articles with tags, notes, and highlights, search a personal library, and read clean text online or offline in a focused Markdown viewer. Planned features include AI summaries, PDF extraction, and mobile apps.

    79 Curio alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  5. Shiori is an innovative bookmark management application that revolutionizes the way users save, organize, and access their favorite web pages. Built upon the robust Shiori platform, Shiori offers a seamless experience across all devices.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. Readeck icon
     13 likes

    A simple web application that lets you save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  7. LinkAce icon
     36 likes

    LinkAce is meant to provide a long-term archive of links to websites, media files or anything else which has a valid URL. Store interesting articles, neat web tools or libraries you may use sometime in the future.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Brace.to icon
     21 likes

    Your bookmark manager with privacy at heart. Brace.to helps you save links to everything and visit them later easily, anytime, on any of your devices. Powered by Stacks technology, all your saved links are encrypted, and only you can decrypt them and see the content inside.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  9. Tab Stash icon
     19 likes

    Tab Stash is a no-fuss way to save and organize batches of tabs as bookmarks. Sweep your browser clean with one click of the Tab Stash icon. Your open tabs will be stashed away in your bookmarks, conveniently organized into groups.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  10. Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager written in Go language. Intended as a simple clone of Pocket. You can use it as command line application or as web application. This application is distributed as a single binary, which means it can be installed and used easily.

    40 Shiori Bookmark Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
     
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  11. This app provides you with a web interface for collecting and organizing bookmarks to the places on the web that are precious to you. You can browse and filter your bookmarks via tags and folders and by using the built-in search feature.

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Nextcloud
     
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