Linkwarden
Shares rank 6 of 8 bookmark managers by recommenders
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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works with SingleFile browser extension
“Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable” “SingleFile can send to self-hosted LinkWarden. So good”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep” Praised as fantastic and awesome
“Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable” “I literally just came across and installed your project on my server today. It's fantastic”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Read-later features could be improved
“the read-later wfs could be improved”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable”
Other bookmark managers people recommend
The four most recommended other bookmark managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karakeep | 23 | 1 | 96% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Linkding | 13 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Pinboard | 10 | 3 | 77% | 7 | — | Approved |
| ClipNotebook | 8 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| LinkwardenThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“SingleFile can send to self-hosted LinkWarden. So good”
“Linkwarden does this well. You can share a collection for a small group of people.”
“it's not really doing it for me”
“the read-later wfs could be improved”
“I literally just came across and installed your project on my server today. It's fantastic”
“Linkwarden is awesome and with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see but the scraper gets blocked on.”
“It stores webpages in multiple formats (HTML snapshot, screenshot, PDF snapshot, and a fully dedicated reader view)”
“The website looks vibe coded.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.