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

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