Servas
A self-hosted bookmark management tool. It allows organization with tags, groups, and a list specifically for later access. It supports multiple users with 2FA. Companion browser extensions are available for Firefox and Chrome.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 9 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.1.3 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: Pocket alternatives.
At a glance
Servas quick facts
- Health score
- 67/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 838
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.1.3, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A self-hosted bookmark management tool. Servas is based on Laravel and Inertia.js and uses Tailwind CSS and Svelte for the frontend."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Servas scores 67/100, #12 of 19 in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: 9 commits in the last 90 days earn 10.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.1.3, 2 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 838 stars add 11.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 24.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 10.5 / 35
9 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.1.3 released 2 days ago
- Stars 11.7 / 20
838 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 9
- Last 90 days
- 80
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #12 of 19 tools in Bookmarks and Link Sharing by health , between Digibunch (#11) and Buku (#13) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Nodejs, PHP |
| Latest release | v1.1.3 · 2 days ago |
| Stars | 838 |
| Open issues | 14 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | beromir/Servas ↗ |
Servas vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Servas (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 |
| Servas (this tool) | 67 | 838 | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
Servas: common questions
Is Servas still maintained?
Servas had 9 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.1.3, is from 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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