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Espial vs linkding: catalog facts
Espiallinkding
Free

Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence. Managed hosting options exist from third…

Web, Self-hosted Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Browser extension
  • Multi-user support
  • Simple SQLite storage
  • Archives bookmarked pages as local HTML or on the Internet Archive, so content survives
  • Imports and exports Netscape HTML, so nothing is locked in
  • Requires running your own server
  • Small project with a modest feature set
  • Self-hosted, so you run and back up the service
  • Deliberately minimal; there is no full-text search of archived pages
Self-hosted Self-hosted, Browser extension
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: MIT
Account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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