LinkAce vs linkding

Both are self-hosted bookmarks and link sharing projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

LinkAce and linkding are closely matched on maintenance health (65 vs 69). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
LinkAcelinkding
Health score 65/100 69/100
Commits (11 mo) 166 153
Commits (last 3 mo) 71 80
Stars 3.3k 11k
Latest release 3 Aug 2026 13 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Docker, PHP Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

LinkAce

Bookmark archive with automatic backups to the Internet Archive, link monitoring, and a full REST API. Installation is done via Docker, or as a simple PHP application.

65/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 16/40
Releases 25/25
Community 12/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 39% of tracked projects; popularity more than 59%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 14 commits 2025-11: 3 commits 2025-12: 6 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 11 commits 2026-03: 24 commits 2026-04: 18 commits 2026-05: 19 commits 2026-06: 39 commits 2026-07: 20 commits 2026-08: 12 commits

linkding

Minimal bookmark management with a fast and clean UI. Simple installation through Docker and can run on your Raspberry Pi.

69/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 15/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 13/15

Commit activity more than 38% of tracked projects; popularity more than 81%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 19 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 15 commits 2026-01: 37 commits 2026-02: 2 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 0 commits 2026-06: 31 commits 2026-07: 0 commits 2026-08: 49 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted bookmarks and link sharing.