Alternatives / Omnivore
Looking for an open source Omnivore alternative? We compared 8 open source read-it-later and bookmark managers by license, self-hosting, archiving, and apps. Omnivore shut down its hosted service in late 2024, and these tools let you save and read articles on infrastructure you control.
Written by Maxime DERAME
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| Alternative | Best for | License |
|---|---|---|
| Karakeep | Self-hosted bookmarks with AI tagging | AGPL-3.0 |
| Linkwarden | Archiving and collaborating on web pages | AGPL-3.0 |
| Wallabag | Classic read-it-later with Pocket and Instapaper imports | MIT |
| Readeck | Articles, videos, and highlights in one hub | AGPL-3.0 |
| Faved | Minimal bookmarks for large libraries | MIT |
| Bookmark It | Timeline bookmarks (free tier is limited) | AGPL-3.0 |
| Capd | Private local archive on macOS (very small) | MIT |
| Brace.to | Encrypted bookmarks on Stacks (small project) | MIT |
We looked for open-source tools that overlap with Omnivore's core: saving articles and links, reading them later in a clean view, and highlighting. We verified each project's license, recent activity, stars, and self-hosting in its repository. Omnivore was a read-it-later app, and most alternatives are bookmark managers, so we note which ones offer a real reading view and highlights. See our methodology for the full criteria.
Karakeep, Linkwarden, Faved, Bookmark It, and Brace.to are bookmark managers with varying reading and highlighting support. Wallabag and Readeck are the closest to a true read-it-later reader, with clean content extraction, highlights, and apps.
Wallabag and Readeck are the closest, with article extraction, highlighting, and imports from services such as Pocket and Instapaper, and Readeck adds video transcripts and e-book export. Karakeep and Linkwarden are the most popular bookmark tools, with AI tagging in Karakeep and page archiving and collaboration in Linkwarden.
Capd is macOS-only, stores data locally, and has an "Ask" feature that needs Apple Intelligence. Brace.to encrypts links and runs on Stacks technology, with only about 100 stars. Bookmark It's free tier is limited to 25 bookmarks a month and 15 tags, with a $24 a year Pro tier. Wallabag's hosted service starts at €11 a year.
Karakeep, Linkwarden, Readeck, and Bookmark It are AGPL-3.0, and Wallabag, Faved, Capd, and Brace.to are MIT.
Karakeep, Linkwarden, Wallabag, Readeck, and Capd had commits within days of this update. Faved's last commit was in August 2026, Bookmark It's in May 2026, and Brace.to's in April 2026.
Omnivore announced that it was shutting down its hosted service in late 2024, which left users to export their libraries and move elsewhere. Open-source alternatives let you keep your saved articles on your own server or device, so a vendor shutdown cannot take your library away, at the cost of running the software or paying for hosting.
AGPL-3.0 self-hosted application for links, notes, images, PDFs, and other content, with full-text search, AI tagging, webpage preservation, highlights, RSS, browser extensions, mobile apps, REST API, webhooks, and collaborative lists.
Pricing: Open-source self-hosted app; AI may require additional infrastructure or external models.
AGPL-3.0 bookmark manager that preserves webpages in multiple formats and includes collections, tags, full-text search, annotations, browser extensions, APIs, screenshots, and team collaboration.
Pricing: Self-hosted open-source edition and managed cloud option.
MIT application that extracts readable webpage content for distraction-free later reading and supports Pocket and Instapaper imports, offline access, tags, search, APIs, and mobile apps.
Pricing: Free and open-source self-hosted app; hosted services may be separate.
MIT self-hosted bookmark manager for large collections, with nested tags, metadata extraction, duplicate detection, bulk editing, card/list/table views, PWA, bookmarklet, and Pocket migration.
Pricing: Free and open source; Docker deployment available.
AGPL-3.0 application that saves article text and images locally, with highlights, annotations, labels, favorites, dynamic collections, browser extension, EPUB export, video transcripts, and a fast Go backend. Official development is on Codeberg.
Pricing: Open-source self-hosted project with single-binary deployment.
AGPL-3.0 bookmark manager that combines a social-style timeline with tags, favorites, sharing, browser extensions, import/export, cross-device sync, and themes.
Pricing: Hosted free plan has limits; self-hosting depends on project deployment options.
MIT bookmark manager that encrypts saved links and uses decentralized identity and user-controlled data across browsers and mobile devices.
Pricing: Open-source client with decentralized synchronization and user-controlled data.
Capd is a native macOS app for building a personal library of web content. It stores everything locally in SQLite with full-text search, OCR search inside images, on-device tagging, duplicate detection, a global capture shortcut, a command-line interface, and a read-only MCP server. There is no account or telemetry.
Pricing: Free and open source.
| Alternative | Type | License | Self-hosted | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karakeep | Bookmark manager | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | AI tagging |
| Linkwarden | Bookmark manager and archive | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Archiving and teams |
| Wallabag | Read-it-later | MIT | Yes | Clean reading |
| Faved | Bookmark manager | MIT | Yes | Large libraries |
| Readeck | Content hub | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Articles and videos |
| Bookmark It | Bookmark manager | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Timeline view |
| Capd | Local archive | MIT | Local app (macOS) | Private archive |
| Brace.to | Encrypted bookmarks | MIT | Hosted or self-hosted | Encryption |
Want a proper read-it-later reader
Wallabag archives articles with clean content extraction, imports from Pocket and Instapaper, and an API under MIT.
Want articles, videos, and highlights together
Readeck saves articles, videos, and images with highlighting, video transcripts, and e-book export.
Want AI-tagged bookmarks
Karakeep is a self-hostable bookmark manager for links, notes, images, and PDFs with AI-based automatic tagging.
Want permanent page archives with collaboration
Linkwarden preserves pages in several formats and adds collections, annotations, and full-text search.