Shaarli vs xBrowserSync

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Shaarli		xBrowserSync
	Project
40	Mentions	6
3,275	Stars	1,443
1.3%	Growth	1.2%
8.3	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
PHP	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Shaarli

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shaarli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.

Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024

I see your pinboard and I raise one Shaarli
https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
Show HN: Share-links, kinda like a clone of Shaarli in Django
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2023

Hi HN! I feel that the state of this small project of mine is advanced enough to be shared here.
I created this thing because I was growing frustrated of how Shaarli (https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) worked (but I don't remember why now, though).
Share-links is fairly simple; you add links, maybe tags and a description, and it store them on a small django website, that you can share to your friends too (I'm missing the "links" page on personal websites that made me discover a lot of cool websites).
However, it allow you some more features (favicons before links, autofetch lang & title, basic comment system, multiple users, basic search, highlight posts...) that may interest you.
I'm using an instance since 1 and half year, and it's been great to store the links I find interesting on the web! (I don't took the time to add tags & comments to my links, but I use the search feature a lot).
I hope some of you will start using this project and suggest new features :)
(sorry for my bad english, I'm writing this in a hurry before leaving the computer)
(don't worry if my own instance is down, it's selfhosted and I have a very bad upstream)
Any URL/Website hoarders?
4 projects | /r/opendirectories | 22 May 2023

I use Shaarli for links, and I have an agent network that, among other things, throws links I want to save into a Wallabag install for archival and reference.
Is there a bookmark sharing service?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 24 Apr 2023
Looking for recommendations (Bookmarks/Links)
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 Apr 2023
Any bookmarking software/app/extension rcm?
6 projects | /r/software | 19 Apr 2023
les problèmes des mégabassines
2 projects | /r/france | 5 Apr 2023
xbrowsersync alternatives
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 18 Mar 2023

I'm currently using Shaarli installed on a Freeddom Box self hosted on my LAN
Cogito, another second brain app
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Feb 2023

How does it compare to shaarli ?
Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2023

xBrowserSync

Posts with mentions or reviews of xBrowserSync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-16.

What Foss apps you can't live without.
49 projects | /r/fossdroid | 16 Oct 2022

XBrowserSync : Completely open source tool for syncing your bookmarks and browser data between your desktop browsers.
xBrowserSync VS floccus - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Jul 2022
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
34 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022
Is there a way to sync bookmarks without a browser account?
1 project | /r/privacytoolsIO | 1 Jul 2021

[1] https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/wiki/Known-issues
Chromium browser with best privacy/usability ratio
2 projects | /r/privacy | 19 Feb 2021

Use xBrowserSync for bookmarks sync. This extension is open source as well listed in pto site.
Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021

Chromium variants: Edge support is planned for v1.6.0. (https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/wiki/Roadmap) v1.5.2 is the current version.
Collections: Don't know, I'm not using collections.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Shaarli and xBrowserSync you can also consider the following projects:

LinkAce - LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.

Firefox Sync Server - Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server

Myyna

Pinry - Pinry, a tiling image board system for people who want to save, tag, and share images, videos and webpages in an easy to skim through format. It's open-source and self-hosted.

Lobsters - Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

Firefox Auth Server

Scuttle - Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SemanticScuttle

unmark - An open source to do app for bookmarks.

golinks - 🌐 A web app that allows you to create smart bookmarks, commands and aliases by pointing your web browser's default search engine at a running instance. Similar to bunny1 or yubnub.