Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.13! 🥳 This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.
For those who are new to Linkwarden, it’s basically a tool to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve webpages, articles, and documents, all in one place. It’s great for bookmarking stuff to read later, and you can also share your resources, create public collections, and collaborate with your team. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud subscription or you can self-host it on your own server.
This release brings a range of updates to make your bookmarking and archiving experience even smoother. Let’s take a look:
What’s new:
🏷️ New Tag Management Page
We added a dedicated page where you can view, sort, add, bulk merge, and bulk delete you Tags, all in one place.
⚙️ Compact Sidebar
You can now shrink the sidebar for a more compact and minimal look.
🐞 Bug fixes and Optimizations
This release comes with many bug fixes, security fixes, and optimizations that’s recommended for all users.
✅ And more…
There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.12.2...v2.13.0
Want to skip the technical setup?
If you’d rather skip server setup and maintenance, our Cloud Plan takes care of everything for you. It’s a great way to access all of Linkwarden’s features—plus future updates—without the technical overhead.
We hope you enjoy these new enhancements, and as always, we’d like to express our sincere thanks to all of our supporters and contributors. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in shaping Linkwarden into what it is today. 🚀
Also, the Official Mobile App for iOS and Android are coming very soon! Follow us on Mastodon, Twitter (X), and Bluesky for the latest updates.
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This looks great! Yet another container for our poor home server.
Can anyone help explain the use case for this? Why would someone want/need a dedicated app for bookmarks vs just using the built in browser bookmarking?
I’ve always used Firefox but have never thought to myself that I needed bookmarks in a different app entirely. What am I missing?
I didn’t either, but I started using floccus and syncing my bookmarks across my 2 computers and phone. In a pinch it works great for those obscure websites I don’t frequently visit.
It’s a replacement for Read It Later/Pocket/Instapaper.
Saves websites offline, with full copies/reading view/pdf.
That tool also saves a copy of the website. But I also do not use the browser bookmarks and a tool, that only syncs bookmarks. And that is the reason: syncing, so I have all the bookmarks on all devices.
I love how active the development on Linkwarden is. I still have all of my stuff in wallabag, but Linkwarden is tempting. I gave the hosted trial a try a few weeks ago, but my wallabag export was too big to import. Maybe I’ll try selfhosting it and manually increasing the max upload size this time.
Thanks! We might bump the import limit sometime soon, how large is the file you’re trying to import?
My JSON export from wallabag is 46 megabytes. That’s for 2,465 articles.
If I log into a paywalled site, can i read paywalled things later?
Yes. It archives a copy of the page locally that you have access to forever.
That’s cool. Instapaper can’t do that. Thx.
Is it possible to transfer those files to kobo reader (convert to epub).
Not that I know of. I still use wallabag just for my “read it later on kobo” button.
Yes, but you’ll need to either upload the webpage using SingleFile or use our official Browser Extension.
I’ve been looking for a way to self host a bookmark manager so I can sync bookmarks (favorites / links) across all devices. Sounds like Linkwarden might be overkill for me, but can it do that if I’m ok with overkill?
You can disable preservation and sync Linkwarden with your browser bookmarks using Floccus and it can serve you as a regular bookmark manager.
Just an FYI that this seems to require a monthly subscription fee, even for self-hosting.
No it doesnt. It leans that way on the official site but self hosters tend to use github or similar rather than official websites.
Source: Been self hosting it for months for free (I intend to donate to Linkwarden when I do my next round of self host/FOSS donations)
Yeah I’ve just seen that, pretty dodgy on their part if you ask me. Going by their website it’s impossible to use it without paying, they even say that self hosting has a subscription cost.
GitHub is usually where you get linked to from official websites.
Yep, that’s exactly what this is for. You use Linkwarden to bookmark things, though – it’s not for your browser bookmarks. But there’s a browser extension, so you’re still just clicking one button to bookmark things. And you can export your browser bookmarks and then import them in Linkwarden.
So if you self host this you still have to pay a monthly subscription fee to even use it?
Nope, self-hosting is 100% free :)
You might want to change your website then, because it doesn’t say that anywhere. Like…anywhere at all. Subscription costs are mentioned literally everywhere that you look for anything to do with installing/setting it up.
Not a single mention of being able to self-host it without a subscription on here your homepage, https://linkwarden.app/, but a mention of self-hosting with a subscription cost attached.
Edit: Oh I finally see one that doesn’t mention a subscription! Under self hosting in that last screenshot, long after the “getting started” and “billing and subscription” sections lol. If this wasn’t intentional (it most likely is), it’s extremely bad UX.
Come on, They build this stuff open source, so that you can self host it completely free of charge.
Advertising their own paid infrastructure to counterfinance development is a no brainer
I can see from the screenshot they still haven’t fixed the title text being cut off in each bookmark.
Hey there! The screenshot was cropped, not sure which part you’re talking about
Each bookmark card does not make enough room for the title of each bookmark, so they’re cut off with an ellipses at the end. The readability while looking over your bookmarks is pretty bad as a result. Like after a certain point that’s unavoidable, but it doesn’t help that the spacing and margins in each card are excessive.
KaraKeep uses a similar card layout and handles it much better as a counter example.
Oh, you can adjust the view to your preference.
