Open source alternatives to Pocket

3 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what Pocket does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Pocket does

  1. Save articles to read latercore
  2. Clean reader viewcore
  3. Browser extension and mobile apps
  4. Offline reading
  5. Tags and highlights
  6. Article recommendations

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
karakeepSelf-hostable bookmark manager for links, notes and images with AI tagging Replaces it88%31k+134
305
 23 days ago94% Hosted version AGPL-3.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Not shown: Article recommendations.See the evidence
  • Save articles to read latercoreYesBookmark links, take simple notes and store images and pdfs.
  • Clean reader viewcoreYesclean, distraction-free reader view
  • Browser extension and mobile appsYesChrome plugin, Firefox addon, and Safari extension
  • Offline readingYesMobile offline reading.
  • Tags and highlightsYesMark and store highlights from your hoarded content.
  • Article recommendationsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
omnivoreOpen source read-it-later app with a reader and Logseq integration Replaces it88%16k+6
130
 31 days ago100% Needs a server AGPL-3.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Not shown: Article recommendations.See the evidence
  • Save articles to read latercoreYesa complete, open source read-it-later solution
  • Clean reader viewcoreYesWe use Mozilla's Readability library to make pages easier to read.
  • Browser extension and mobile appsYesBrowser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
  • Offline readingYesOffline support
  • Tags and highlightsYesLabels (aka tagging)
  • Article recommendationsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
linkwardenSelf-hosted collaborative bookmark manager that preserves pages Not checked yet20k+44
126
 4 days ago47% Hosted version AGPL-3.0

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