Buku
Powerful bookmark manager and a personal textual mini-web.
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Commit activity more than 21% of tracked projects; popularity more than 74%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 7.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v5.1 · 7 Dec 2025 |
| Repo updated | 15 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Python, deb |
Is Buku actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 59 commits, of which 20 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 7 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 400% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v5.1, is about 10 months old.
Buku ranks #9 of 19 in Bookmarks and Link Sharing, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Buku actually does
Buku is a command-line bookmark manager and textual web archiver. It allows you to store, organise, search and tag web links locally from your terminal. It functions as a personal offline repository for managing your frequently accessed URLs.
Best fit: Terminal-centric users who prefer managing their bookmarks through a lightweight command-line interface rather than a browser extension or graphical web service.
Worth knowing: It lacks a native graphical user interface and requires comfort with command-line tools, which may limit its appeal if you rely on visual bookmark sync across multiple devices.
Deployment notes
As a Python application packaged via debian formats, it typically requires a persistent local data directory for its storage backend and can be run directly on any standard Linux host with Python installed.
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