Linkwarden vs Pinboard
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Linkwarden
Open-source bookmark manager that preserves a copy of each page
Pinboard
Paid bookmarking site with tags, privacy and page archiving
Where they differ
- Linkwarden starts at $3 per user / month, billed yearly ($4 billed monthly). Pinboard starts at $22 per year.
- Linkwarden has a free plan. Pinboard does not.
- Only Linkwarden lists iOS and Android apps.
- Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Linkwarden also covers highlights.
At a glance
| Linkwarden | Pinboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $3 per user / month, billed yearly ($4 billed monthly) | $22 per year |
| Free plan | The self-hosted version is free and open source under AGPLv3; you deploy and maintain the instance yourself. Linkwarden Cloud has no free plan. | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial of Linkwarden Cloud; a credit card is required and billing starts when the trial ends | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Linkwarden | Nine Fives Software |
| Price read from | linkwarden.app | pinboard.in |
| Checked | Oct 6, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Linkwarden
- Keeping a lasting copy of every page you bookmark
- Small teams collecting research links in shared collections
- Self-hosters who want a free, open-source bookmark manager
Pinboard
- People who want a fast, text-based bookmark archive without ads or trackers
- Users who keep most or all of their bookmarks private
- Developers who want an API and RSS feeds for their bookmarks
Worth knowing
Linkwarden
- Linkwarden Cloud has no free plan, and its 14-day trial needs a credit card and bills automatically when it ends.
- Each Cloud seat covers 30,000 links; saving more means paying for extra seats at the same per-user price.
- Single sign-on is listed for Enterprise and self-hosted users only.
- Refunds are offered only when requested within 3 days of the first payment.
Pinboard
- There is no free plan and no free trial; a payment is refundable within seven days of signup.
- Stored page copies and full-text search require the $39 archival account.
- There are no native mobile apps: Pinboard offers a mobile website and relies on third-party apps.
- The archive crawler cannot save paywalled pages, and the FAQ says YouTube and Twitter links are not saved properly.
Key features
Linkwarden
- Full-page preservation
- Each saved page is captured as a screenshot, a PDF and a single HTML file, and can optionally be sent to the Wayback Machine for a snapshot.
- Reader view with highlights
- Saved articles open in a dedicated reader view where the font style can be adjusted and text can be highlighted and annotated.
- Collections, tags and AI tagging
- Links are organized into collections and sub-collections with multiple tags, and optional AI tagging labels new links based on their content.
- Sharing and collaboration
- Invite other people to gather links in a collection with permissions set per member, or share a collection and its preserved copies publicly.
- Search, RSS feeds and bulk actions
- Full-text search with advanced operators and filters, RSS feed subscriptions that add new articles to a collection, bulk editing, and import and export.
- Apps, browser extension and API
- iOS and Android apps, an open-source extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, browser bookmark sync through Floccus, and an API secured with access tokens.
Pinboard
- Bookmarks, tags and privacy
- Each bookmark has a title, URL, a description of any length and optional tags. Any bookmark can be private, and an account can default to private.
- Read later
- A read-later bookmarklet adds a page to an unread list without asking for details. Unread bookmarks are visible only to you until marked as read.
- Archiving and full-text search
- Archival accounts get a crawled copy of every bookmarked page that stays viewable if the original goes offline, plus search across page text.
- Bookmarklets, extensions and email
- Save with a bookmarklet, with browser extensions for Safari, Chrome and Firefox, or by emailing a URL to a personal Pinboard address.
- API and RSS feeds
- A full API modeled on version 1 of the Delicious API supports third-party clients, and every bookmark page has a matching RSS feed.
- Notes, tab sets and tag bundles
- Notes save snippets of text as bookmarks, tab sets store all open browser tabs for later, and tag bundles group related tags on one page.
Plans
Linkwarden
Self-hostedFree
The open-source application on a server you deploy and maintain yourself, including single sign-on support.
Cloud$3
per user / month, billed yearly ($4 billed monthly), plus tax
Hosted by Linkwarden: full-page preservation, optional AI tagging, full-text search, highlights, RSS feeds and 30,000 links per user.
Pinboard
Regular account$22
per year
Bookmarks with tags, private bookmarks, read later, notes, tab sets, the API and RSS feeds. Refundable within seven days of signup.
Archival account$39
per year
Everything in a regular account, plus a stored copy of every bookmarked page, full-text search and dead-link checks.
Ways to pay less
Linkwarden
- Annual discount
25% off with yearly billing
The pricing page marks yearly billing as 25% off: $3 per user a month when billed annually against $4 billed monthly.
Pinboard
- Other savings
Discounts for paying for several years
The sign-up page says there are steep discounts for signing up for multiple years, chosen on the payment page. The amounts are not shown publicly.
