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buku vs linkding: catalog facts
buku	linkding
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence. Managed hosting options exist from third…
Self-hosted, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Browser extension
Fast search with regex and deep scan options Imports bookmarks from browsers and fetches page metadata	Archives bookmarked pages as local HTML or on the Internet Archive, so content survives Imports and exports Netscape HTML, so nothing is locked in
Primarily a command-line tool Web interface is a separate component to set up	Self-hosted, so you run and back up the service Deliberately minimal; there is no full-text search of archived pages
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Browser extension
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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