Alternatives to Omnivore
An open-source, self-hosted read-it-later app for saving, highlighting and annotating articles, newsletters and PDFs. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Omnivore
An open-source, self-hosted read-it-later app for saving, highlighting and annotating articles, newsletters and PDFs.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Omnivore.
wallabag
Self-hosted read-it-later service that keeps a clean copy of articles.
wallabag is an MIT-licensed self-hosted read-it-later service with Android and iOS apps and a paid hosted option, exporting saved articles to EPUB and PDF.
Readeck
A self-hosted read-it-later app that saves web articles, pictures and videos for clean reading later.
Readeck is a self-hosted read-it-later app with highlights, labels and full-text search, saves video transcripts as text, and exports collections as ebooks, with a browser extension.
Readwise Reader
Read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, RSS, YouTube, and ePubs.
Readwise Reader is a paid, closed-source hosted service handling articles, PDFs, RSS, YouTube and ePubs, with native apps and deep highlighting tools.
Instapaper
A read-it-later service that saves web pages so you can read them later on other devices.
Instapaper is a freemium hosted read-it-later service with iOS, Android and eReader support, but it is closed source and does not follow RSS feeds itself.
Matter
Read-it-later app that combines newsletters, RSS feeds, and saved articles.
Matter is a closed-source hosted freemium app on macOS, iOS and web that combines newsletters, RSS and saves, adding AI summaries and audio narration.
Reams
Browser-based reader combining RSS feeds, newsletters and saved articles.
Reams is a closed-source freemium browser-based reader combining RSS, newsletters and saved articles with highlights and tags, so no server is needed.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Omnivore as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Karakeep
Save bookmarks, notes and documents in a self-hosted library.
Omnivore is a self-hosted read-it-later app for articles, newsletters and PDFs with highlighting and browser extensions, now maintained by the community after its hosted service closed.
Obsidian Web Clipper
Official browser extension that saves web pages and highlights to an Obsidian vault as files.
Omnivore is an open-source, self-hosted read-it-later app with highlighting and an Obsidian plugin, requiring you to run your own server.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
linkding
A self-hosted bookmark manager that is deliberately minimal and fast, with tags, notes, archiving and browser extensions.
Kill the Newsletter!
A web tool that turns email newsletters into Atom feeds you can read in a feed reader.
FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
ReadKit
An RSS and read-later client for iPhone, iPad and Mac that syncs with many feed services.
