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            "tagline": "Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with full-page archives",
            "summary": "Linkwarden is an open-source bookmark manager that archives full pages, offers a reader view and annotations, and supports shared collections. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0, can be self-hosted, and has a cloud plan from $3 per user per month billed yearly.",
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                "Full-page archives survive link rot",
                "Open source under AGPL-3.0",
                "Shared collections for teams"
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                "Cloud plan is paid after a 14-day trial",
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            "overview": "Linkwarden saves full HTML copies of pages, so bookmarks keep working when the original page disappears. Its reader view supports highlights and annotations, and it offers optional AI tagging with search filters.\n\nShared collections and public sharing make it useful for research and team projects, and it can follow RSS feeds inside collections. It has browser extensions and apps for iOS and Android. The self-hosted version is free under AGPL-3.0, and the cloud plan has a 14-day free trial before it is paid."
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            "page": "https://listme.name/software/readwise-reader",
            "tagline": "Read-later app with highlights, RSS and PDF reading",
            "summary": "Reader is a read-it-later app from Readwise for web, iOS and Android. It saves web articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube videos and X threads into one queue, with highlighting and full-text search.",
            "developer": "Readwise",
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                "android"
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        "Scores are editorial and only comparable inside one list. Products with connected_to_publisher true receive a disclosed ranking lift: https://listme.name/methodology"
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