Buku
Powerful bookmark manager and a personal textual mini-web.
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Still maintained? Yes: 15 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v5.1 (Dec 2025).
Comparisons in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: Pocket alternatives.
At a glance
Buku quick facts
- Health score
- 61/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 7,244
- Last commit
- 8 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v5.1, Dec 2025
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Buku
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Buku scores 61/100, #13 of 19 in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: 15 commits in the last 90 days earn 17.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v5.1, 11 months ago) earns 18.2 of 25, 7,244 stars add 15.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 17.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 17.5 / 35
15 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 18.2 / 25
v5.1 released 11 months ago
- Stars 15.4 / 20
7.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 15
- Last 90 days
- 60
- Last 12 months
- 8 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 19 tools in Bookmarks and Link Sharing by health , between Servas (#12) and Shiori (#14) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, deb |
| Latest release | v5.1 · 11 months ago |
| Stars | 7,244 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | jarun/Buku ↗ |
Buku vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Buku (Bookmarks and Link Sharing), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karakeep | 98 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| LinkWarden | 97 | 20k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| linkding | 96 | 11k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| LinkAce | 94 | 3.4k | GPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Readeck | 92 | 1.2k | AGPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| Buku (this tool) | 61 | 7.2k | GPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
Buku: common questions
Is Buku still maintained?
Buku had 15 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 8 days ago; the latest tagged release, v5.1, is from 11 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.