# Linkwarden

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Linkwarden and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Self-hosted bookmark manager that saves pages as HTML, screenshots, PDFs and reader views, and works with SingleFile. Some say its read-later features could be improved.

## Why people recommend it

- Works with SingleFile browser extension (2 comments): "Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019721)) "SingleFile can send to self-hosted LinkWarden. So good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746621))
- Praised as fantastic and awesome (2 comments): "Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019721)) "I literally just came across and installed your project on my server today. It's fantastic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021449))

## What people warn about

- Read-later features could be improved (1 comments): "the read-later wfs could be improved" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022225))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Karakeep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/karakeep.md): 23 recommend
- [Linkding](https://hackerapproved.com/p/linkding.md): 13 recommend
- [Pinboard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pinboard.md): 10 recommend
- [ClipNotebook](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clipnotebook.md): 8 recommend
- [Raindrop.io](https://hackerapproved.com/p/raindrop-io.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Linkwarden", https://hackerapproved.com/p/linkwarden/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).