Karakeep
Bookmarks and Link Sharing
Bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
AGPL-3.0
Powerful bookmark manager and a personal textual mini-web.
Buku is an open-source bookmarks and link sharing project, with 7.2k GitHub stars and a health score of 73/100. It committed 56 times in the last twelve months across 10 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-04 |
| Days since last commit | 13 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 17 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 56 |
| Months with activity | 10 of 12 |
| Last release | 2025-12-07 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Category | Bookmarks and Link Sharing |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Buku is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Actively maintained. Buku recorded 56 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 10 of those months and 17 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-04. Last release: 2025-12-07. Committed within the last 45 days.
Buku is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
18 open-source implementations, 9 of them actively maintained, led by Karakeep at 28k stars. Saturation score 41/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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