Karakeep vs Pinry

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

Karakeep

AGPL-3.0

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

BSD-2-Clause

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

	Karakeep	Pinry
License	AGPL-3.0	BSD-2-Clause
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	29,068	3,422
Forks	1,507	371
Open Issues	710	65
Last Commit	Sep 15, 2026	Jan 5, 2026
First Released	Feb 6, 2024	Mar 5, 2013
Categories	Bookmark & Content Management Tools	Bookmark & Content Management Tools
Tags	#bookmark #read-it-later #self hosted #ai agent	#bookmark #boards #browser extension

Karakeep

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.

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

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.

Open-source visual bookmarking: save images to boards, follow Fediverse accounts, and share collections — no ads, no algorithm.