linkding vs Reminiscence
linkding
linkding.linkReminiscence
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| Figure | linkding | Reminiscence |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Bookmark Managers | 7.7 (#27) | 8.3 (#9) |
| API | Linkding provides a REST API for scripts and third-party applications. | A REST API supports token login, adding URLs, listing saved URLs and directories, and logging out. |
| Archiving | It can create website snapshots as local HTML files or on the Internet Archive; HTML snapshot archiving is included in the `latest-plus` image variant. | It can archive links as HTML, PDF, or full-page PNG, and automatically save linked non-HTML files such as PDFs, images, and text files. |
| Deployment | The installation guide recommends container solutions such as Docker, and says its image supports ARM platforms including Raspberry Pi. | The project documents installation with Python and a Docker Compose setup, and describes the application as self-hosted. |
| License | The project’s GitHub repository identifies its license as MIT. | The GitHub repository identifies its license as AGPL-3.0. |
| Maker | The repository is maintained under the GitHub account sissbruecker. | The GitHub profile identifies the repository owner as Abhishek K and lists Bengaluru, India. |
| Notable limit | The `latest-plus` image includes Chromium for HTML snapshots and therefore requires more image size, runtime memory and disk space. | The README says annotation works well on desktop browsers, while mobile annotation works mostly on Firefox. |
| Organization | Users can organize bookmarks with tags and use bulk editing, Markdown notes, and read-it-later functionality. | Users can categorize bookmarks in directories, edit metadata, and search by URL, title, tags, or summary. |
| Purpose | linkding is a self-hosted bookmark manager designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up. | Reminiscence is a self-hosted bookmark and archive manager described as a hybrid of a bookmark manager and a personal wayback machine. |
| Security | By default, linkding blocks loading metadata, preview images and PDF snapshots from internal network hosts to help prevent server-side request forgery. | The reader removes JavaScript from the original archived format for security reasons, and the README advises migrating from versions using wkhtmltopdf because of a security vulnerability. |
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