Notes & docs · Updated October 2026
Pocket was Mozilla's read-it-later app for saving articles and links, shut down in 2025. If you would rather own your tools, here are 4 open source alternatives to Pocket, ranked by GitHub stars. Each one is free to use under its license, and you can read, change, and often self-host the code.
The most popular is Karakeep with 29.9k stars, and the most recently updated is wallabag, with a commit on Oct 21, 2026.
| Project | Stars | License | Language | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Karakeep | 29.9k | AGPL-3.0 | TypeScript | Oct 19, 2026 |
 Linkwarden | 20.2k | AGPL-3.0 | TypeScript | Oct 19, 2026 |
 wallabag | 13k | MIT | PHP | Oct 21, 2026 |
 linkding | 11.3k | MIT | Python | Oct 1, 2026 |
by karakeep-app
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
by linkwarden
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
by wallabag
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
by sissbruecker
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
By GitHub stars, Karakeep is the most popular open source alternative to Pocket right now, with 29.9k stars, followed by Linkwarden and wallabag. The best fit depends on your setup, so compare their licenses, languages, and recent activity in the table above.
Yes. All 4 projects on this page are open source, so the software itself is free to use, study, and change. Some of them also sell a hosted version or paid support.
wallabag (last commit Oct 21, 2026), Karakeep (last commit Oct 19, 2026), and Linkwarden (last commit Oct 19, 2026) have the most recent commits. Licenses on this list include AGPL-3.0 and MIT.
