Self-Hosted Pocket Alternatives

Pocket is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is wallabag, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Pocket and 13 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Pocket are Karakeep, ArchiveBox, Linkwarden and Curio.

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  1. wallabag icon

    wallabag

     322 likes

    wallabag has many of the features that Pocket has and is a great and totally free alternative. The reading experience is clean and free from distractions. What makes it even more attractive is the fact that it’s open source and can be self-hosted, which makes it a good solution if you value privacy. If you need hosting, wallabag offers a competitive price for only €9 per year. With migration tools for Pocket, Instapaper, and more, existing users of those services can switch quickly to wallabag. There are apps and plugins for many operating systems, RSS readers, and browsers, but their quality is not always equal. There’s an API so developers can build their own apps or get involved in the open source project.

    140 wallabag alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Cloudron
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    • European Union flagEU
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  2. Karakeep icon

    Karakeep

     98 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.

    131 Karakeep alternatives

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  4. ArchiveBox icon

    ArchiveBox

     92 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.

    72 ArchiveBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Homebrew
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  5. Linkwarden icon

    Linkwarden

     59 likes

    A fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages.

    88 Linkwarden alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • CA flagCanada
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  6. Curio icon

    Curio

     34 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.

    89 Curio alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • US flagUnited States
    Dashboard on mobile
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  8. LinkAce icon

    LinkAce

     38 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.

    123 LinkAce alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
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    • European Union flagEU
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  9. Readeck icon

    Readeck

     14 likes

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

    38 Readeck alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU
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  10. Shiori Bookmark Manager icon

    Shiori Bookmark Manager

     18 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
    • ID flagIndonesia
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    Faved

     8 likes

    Free open-source bookmark manager with customisable nested tags. Superfast and lightweight. All data is stored locally and secure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • GE flagGeorgia
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  12. Nextcloud Bookmarks icon

    Nextcloud Bookmarks

     14 likes

    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.

    64 Nextcloud Bookmarks alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Nextcloud
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
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  13. HamsterBase icon

    HamsterBase

     4 likes

    hamsterBase is a local-first,privacy first knowledge collector.

    Local first: all features available offline Privacy first: No data is collected.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  14. TextStack icon

    TextStack

     2 likes

    TextStack is a reading tool for developers tackling dense technical books like Designing Data-Intensive Applications, ML papers, or distributed systems texts. Tap any unfamiliar term, get a 2-3 sentence LLM-powered explanation that's aware of the book's domain —...

    Cost / License

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
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