LinkWarden

Bookmark and archive manager to store your useful links.

Thriving · 84
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
2025-10 558 total 2026-08
Stars20k
Latest releasev2.16.3 · 9 Sept 2026
Repo updated10 Sept 2026
LicenceMIT
Built withDocker, Nodejs

Is LinkWarden actively maintained?

Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 558 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 266 of them.

Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 202% more commits than the one before it.

The most recent tagged release, v2.16.3, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Among the 19 bookmarks and link sharing projects we track, LinkWarden currently has the highest health score.

What LinkWarden actually does

LinkWarden is a self-hosted bookmark and archive manager designed to store and organise useful web links. It helps you preserve content by saving copies of pages so they remain accessible even if the original site changes or disappears. The project is distributed under the MIT licence.

Best fit: It is a good fit if you want a dedicated, private repository to collect, categorise, and archive web pages for long-term reference.

Worth knowing: You should consider how it compares to browser-native bookmarking tools or existing read-it-later services, as maintaining a separate self-hosted archive requires ongoing server management and storage allocation.

Deployment notes

Because it runs via Docker and Node.js, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your stored data and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.


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