Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.
The tool addresses the problem of managing and engaging with articles, newsletters, and other text content by providing a unified platform for saving, annotating, and organizing reading material. It works by offering highlighting, notes, search, and sharing capabilities alongside automatic article parsing and place-saving in long-form content. Users can add articles through browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge, via email for newsletter subscriptions including Substack, or through an RSS client with feed categorization. The platform includes full keyboard navigation and offline support.
Omnivore suits readers who want a self-hosted alternative to commercial read-it-later services and who value open source software they can fork and extend. The project is now entirely self-hosted following the deprecation of its cloud offering, making it appropriate for individuals or organizations willing to run their own server. The tool provides native applications for iOS and Android alongside a web app and progressive web app, ensuring broad device coverage. Integration with note-taking systems like Logseq and Obsidian through dedicated plugins makes it valuable for users who want reading material to flow into their knowledge management workflows. Text-to-speech functionality is available on iOS.
Responses to issues and pull requests typically take one to two weeks. Development activity concentrates on the web application, API, and iOS platform based on issue tracker labeling.
