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Just learned that POCKET will shut down in July 2025. It is a great service to collect articles on various devices and read later on a tablet & offline.

Which alternatives are out there?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks everyone for your many replies! Week start out with wallabag and see where it will lead me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
  • Readeck is kind of a 'read it later' app.
  • Karakeep is for saving data like web sites etc, that you'd like to preserve the content thereof.
  • LinkWarden is for links, bookmarks tho you can use it like Readeck.
  • Walabag: I've never used it but I've heard good things about it.

Others can be found here: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

LinkWarden also saves various archival copies of sites (as well as it can with anti-robot measures anyways)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank you for the nice summary!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I really like https://karakeep.app/.

I have it plugged into a local Ollama instance for automatic tagging of articles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

For bookmarking: https://raindrop.io/

But it’s not self-hosted and I’m not sure it supports offline reading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

It's a downright dirty shame no devs have taken on Raindrop. It's a slick little app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That sucks, I immediately wanted it. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

It’s still worth using, IMO. They present themselves as very privacy respecting and technologically savvy. I can say after years of using it, it feels that way. They never get in my way and consistently release quality, stable updates.

[–] otter 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here is a list

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven't tried it yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I went with Readeck a few months ago. It's a nice solution between the barebones ones and those that have all the features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I use Readeck as well. My only complaint about Readeck is there really is no 'one click, backup/export' option. You can, however, download all the zip files it makes along with the db, and transfer it to another server. I know you can import bookmarks from Firefox, and you can export the epub, but you can't export all of your saves. At least I've never found a way beyond just downloading the full db and zips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I just set up Readeck today. I've never used pocket or anything of the sort but it's already proving pretty useful. I tend to do a lot of 100%/platinum runs of various games and I've been tossing guide bookmarks in a folder for ages, this is a great way to sort those out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I ended up on Readeck as well, very sleek interface, perfect for sharing articles via public links, self-hosting it was very easy to set up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I'll throw another recommendation behind Karakeep. The fact I can share a page fromy mobile browser or use a browser extension on a laptop/desktop is excellent.

Another great thing for me is the oidc support so I can log in without passwords and rely on my Pocket ID instance and log in using a passkey. (Authelia, Authentic, Keycloak and similar identity providers would work too)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no idea why the fucking docker instance refuses to work. I've tried so many times...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Post it! Let's see what's up.

I've been using the docker for ages but there was a SQL update command I had to do at one point (I didn't RTFM) but other than that, smooth sailing.

Even has a Koreader plugin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I love my LinkWarden instance. I haven't found it lacking for my needs, despite over 3000 links thus far

[–] OminousOrange 1 points 17 hours ago

I've just started using linkwarden and love it as well. I chose it over Karakeep because it archives a copy of the page so it's still accessible if the original page is modified or becomes inaccessible in the future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Currently trying Readeck.

Karakeep is also popular, but doesn't default to an article view which I prefer.

Wallabag looks good, but I had difficulty getting its docker setup

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I use my note taking app with a specific tag for "read later"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

it's not perfect, but i've just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook