Host Linkding without installing anything
Your bookmarks out of the browser: tagged, searchable in a second, and the same on every device.
Starting at €4.99/month
Introduction
Linkding installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Essentiel at €4.99/month incl. VAT — 2 GB of memory. Linkding is a Django application on a SQLite database: serving the list costs almost nothing. What needs room is the background work — fetching the title, description and icon of each page you add, and building the local archive when you turn it on. 512 MB keeps it running; the 2 GB give an import of several thousand links space to breathe.
Moving in is done with the Netscape HTML format, the one exported by Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Raindrop and Pocket — whose shutdown in July 2025 sent a lot of people looking for shelter. Linkding reads that file, keeps the tags it carries and can turn a folder tree into tags. After that, the official Firefox and Chrome extension saves a page in one click, and the Android share sheet sends a page straight into the list.
What Linkding does
Netscape import and export
The bookmarks HTML file every browser produces, plus Pocket and Raindrop. It goes in and it comes back out: you are not locked in, and a backup fits in a single file.
Search that answers before you finish typing
Title, description, notes and tags are indexed. The syntax is short: a word for the text, a tag behind a hash, a filter to show only what has not been read yet.
A browser extension and an Android share target
The official Firefox and Chrome extension saves the open page with its tags. Installed as an app on Android, the interface shows up in the phone's share menu.
A copy of the page, not only its address
Linkding records the Internet Archive snapshot and can keep an HTML copy of the page on your own instance. The day the site disappears, the link does not die with it.
Who uses it, and what for
A consultant keeping a watch on a field
Two hundred articles a month, tagged by client and by subject, found again six months later on a word from the title rather than by digging through a bookmarks folder.
A team of three sharing what they find
Everyone has their own account and their private links; bookmarks marked as shared appear in the common list, instead of scrolling away in a chat channel.
A trainer publishing a reading list
One tag per module, the list made public, and an address to hand to attendees instead of a document reissued at every session.
Someone who lost Pocket
The Pocket export goes straight in, the tags follow, and the reading list becomes a reading list again — on a machine whose shutdown nobody will decide for you.
A developer keeping their references
Documentation pages, the blog post explaining a workaround, repositories to read again: all recalled by tag, and the token API lets a script add more.
Hosted in France
In our own datacentre in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. Your reading list is a fairly accurate portrait of you: it has no business sitting with an advertising broker.
Frequently asked questions
Through the Netscape HTML format, produced by Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Raindrop and the Pocket export. Linkding reads that file, keeps the tags it carries and can convert a folder tree into tags. The import can be run again without creating duplicates: a link already known is updated, not copied.
It records the address of the Internet Archive snapshot and, if you turn the option on, keeps an HTML copy of the page on your instance. That is a photograph of the page as it was, not a version reformatted for reading. To read an article offline in a cleaned-up layout, Wallabag is the right tool.
Yes. A bookmark can be marked as shared: it becomes visible to the other accounts on the instance, and publicly if you allow it. It is the shortest way to publish a reading list without standing up a website for the occasion.
App Essentiel, at €4.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 2 GB of memory where the application asks for 512 MB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.