Buku vs Pinry

Comparing two open source alternatives to Pinterest. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Buku

GPL-3.0

Privacy-focused, command-line bookmark manager that stores links in a local encrypted SQLite database with full-text search.

BSD-2-Clause

Self-hosted tiling image board for saving, tagging, and sharing images, videos, and webpages.

	Buku	Pinry
License	GPL-3.0	BSD-2-Clause
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	7,199	3,422
Forks	322	371
Open Issues	2	65
Last Commit	Sep 15, 2026	Jan 5, 2026
First Released	Nov 1, 2015	Mar 5, 2013
Categories	Bookmark & Content Management Tools	Bookmark & Content Management Tools
Tags	#bookmark #cli #privacy	#bookmark #boards #browser extension

Buku

Pinry3,422

Open-source, self-hosted bookmark manager with browser extension support, automatic metadata extraction, and full-text search.

Open source read-it-later app with full-text search, highlighting, notes, newsletter support, and integrations with Logseq and Obsidian.

Open-source self-hostable bookmark manager to organize, discover, and personalize your saved links.

Self-hosted read-it-later app that saves articles for offline reading with a clean, distraction-free view.

A self-hosted personal knowledge base that turns markdown notes into an AI-augmented knowledge graph with semantic search and wiki synthesis.

Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with AI-based automatic tagging, full-text search, and support for links, notes, and images.