Collection - Self-Hosted Save Tools

Best Self-Hosted Save Tools (2026)

If Pocket's shutdown taught savers anything, it's that hosted services can vanish - along with your archive. Self-hosted tools put the copies on hardware you control. Wallabag and Shiori keep clean offline article copies, Linkwarden captures every link as a screenshot, PDF and HTML file, linkding stays deliberately minimal in one container, Karakeep adds AI tagging that can run against a local model, LinkAce monitors links for rot, and ArchiveBox snapshots each URL in half a dozen formats including WARC. All are open source and Docker-ready - the only cost is the server they run on.

How they compare

Self-Hosted Save Tools - 7 tools side by side
Tool	Price	Free tier	Type	Saves to
ArchiveBox	Free	Yes	Open source, App, Self-hosted	Your own server · Cloud storage
Karakeep	Self-host free	Yes	Open source, Extension, App, Self-hosted	Your own server · Its own library
LinkAce	Free	Yes	Open source, App, Self-hosted	Your own server
linkding	Free (self-hosted)	Yes	Open source, Extension, Self-hosted	Your own server
Linkwarden	Self-host free; $3/mo cloud	Yes	Open source, Extension, App, Self-hosted	Your own server · Its own library
Shiori	Free	Yes	Open source, App, Self-hosted	Your own server
Wallabag	Self-host free; €11/yr hosted	Yes	Open source, Extension, App, Self-hosted	Your own server