Linkding

Bookmarks, fast and without the extras: save, tag, find again.

about €1.97 / month Reading & archive 11,416 stars on GitHub Latest commit on September 13, 2026

What Linkding does

Linkding does one thing: collect addresses and find them again. No preview images, no recommendations, no timeline — a list, a search box, tags.

The interface loads in a fraction of a second even with ten thousand entries, and the browser add-on saves with one click.

  • Full-text search across title, description and tags
  • Add-on for Firefox and Chrome
  • Import from your browser and from other services
  • A read-later list, kept apart from the archive

Good to know before the first start. You create the first account at startup and become the administrator. Bring your existing bookmarks along as the HTML file your browser exports.

Linkding instead of Pinboard

What you get out of it

  • Tags, search and nothing else, fast even with ten thousand entries
  • Pages that matter to you are kept as a copy
  • Your collection lives in your own database

Bringing your data over from Pinboard

Readeck accepts the Pinboard JSON backup directly. Linkding and ArchiveBox read bookmarks in the HTML format that browsers export.

Pinboard and PodlessPinboardOn Podless
Where the data livesPinboardOn the provider’s serversOn PodlessIn your own instance in the EU
Source codePinboardNot open to readOn PodlessOpen, you can read what runs
Ads and profilingPinboardPer the provider’s termsOn PodlessNone
Your own domainPinboardUsually not offeredOn PodlessIncluded, certificate too
Getting out againPinboardAs far as the provider allowsOn PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage
If it gets shut downPinboardYou have to moveOn PodlessYou decide when you leave

Additional information

Replaces
Pinboard, Pocket, Raindrop.io, Browser bookmarks
Recommended size
0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage
Estimated per month
€1.97 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.

Common questions

At the recommended size (0.25 cores · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage) about €1.97 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Linkding and you only pay for storage.

Goes well with

  • Karakeep Reading & archive· Instead of Pocket about €5.70 / month

    A bookmark manager that keeps things: links, notes and images with a full copy of every page.

  • Readeck Reading & archive· Instead of Pocket about €2.80 / month

    Read later without ads: save articles, highlight them, take them along as an e-book.

  • ArchiveBox Reading & archive· Instead of Wayback Machine about €6.50 / month

    Archive web pages permanently — as HTML, PDF, screenshot and WARC.

Your own Linkding, in under a minute.