Espial
Espial is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Bookmarks & Link Sharing category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Haskell. It ships a Docker image. It has 923 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Aug 2, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Bookmarks & Link Sharing
- Haskell
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 923
- Forks
- 32
- Open issues
- 5
- Commits, last 12 months
- 27
- Last commit
- Aug 2, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.0.42Jul 26, 2026
- Created
- Apr 10, 2018
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Aug 2, 2026, 27 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Aug 2, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 27 |
| Latest release | v0.0.42 (Jul 26, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 7 |
| Open issues | 5 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Apr 10, 2018 |
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About Espial
Web-based bookmarking server that supports multiple user accounts.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/jonschoning/espial.
Topics
- haskell
- bookmark
- bookmarking-server
- database
- typescript
- i18n
- multilingual
- docker
- docker-compose
- self-hosted
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Is Espial free and open source?
Yes. Espial is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Espial with Docker?
Yes. Espial provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Espial?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Espial include Karakeep, LinkWarden and Shiori.
Is Espial actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Espial was on Aug 2, 2026 with 27 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.0.42, published Jul 26, 2026. It had 5 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.