LinkAce vs LinkWarden

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.

LinkWarden scores 84 against LinkAce's 65, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — LinkAce may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
LinkAceLinkWarden
Health score 65/100 84/100
Commits (11 mo) 166 558
Commits (last 3 mo) 71 266
Stars 3.3k 20k
Latest release 3 Aug 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Docker, PHP Docker, Nodejs
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

LinkWarden

Bookmark and archive manager to store your useful links.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 27/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 52 commits 2025-11: 30 commits 2025-12: 55 commits 2026-01: 23 commits 2026-02: 44 commits 2026-03: 40 commits 2026-04: 12 commits 2026-05: 36 commits 2026-06: 62 commits 2026-07: 154 commits 2026-08: 50 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.