Omnivore shut down in November 2024 after ElevenLabs hired the team. The self-hosted OSS repo is still around, but for most people the right move is to pick a hosted successor. Here's what to consider if you liked what Omnivore did.
The cloud service is gone and user data was deleted in late 2024. Self-hosting the OSS version is a real project. For most people, picking an alternative is the faster, safer path.
Matter, Readwise Reader, and Instapaper cover the read-later workflow Omnivore handled. Keep picks up the 'markdown out for agents' thread Omnivore was known for. Ordered by best match. Keep is our own product, so we list it as our pick above the ranked list.
Our pick
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Keep is ours, so of course we put it first. We built it because nothing else saved articles, tweets, and videos as clean markdown, and the free tier is there so you can decide if we are right.
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
A curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
A classic read-later app with clean text extraction and distraction-free reading.
Free, paid from $5.99/mo
Paste an article URL, get a clean reader with AI summaries, audio, and chat.
Free, paid from $6/mo
A powerful RSS reader for power users, researchers, and journalists.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.
Free, paid from $3/mo
Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.
Free, paid from $8.25/mo
Save and search X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, and Mastodon bookmarks in one place.
Free, paid from $10/mo
A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
Here's how the hosted alternatives compare on the things Omnivore was strongest at: newsletters, highlights, RSS, PDFs, and a markdown-friendly API.
| Feature | Omnivore | Keep | Readwise Reader | Matter | Instapaper | SMRY | Inoreader | Feedly | Raindrop | Evernote | Dewey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Chrome extension captures from your authenticated session for paywalled and JS-rendered pages | Chrome, Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome | Bookmarklet | |||
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | |||
| Save from email | Per-user address | Forward to in.keep.md | Per-user Reader address | Premium | Unique save-by-email address | Forwarding address | ||||||
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | Quoteshots + X integration | Partial | Native X bookmarks sync | Partial | |||||||
| Save YouTube videos | Partial | With transcripts | With transcript highlighting | Premium; with transcription | URL only | Paste a YouTube URL to get a readable transcript, summary, and TTS | Via channel feed | Via channel feed | Partial | Partial | ||
| Save GitHub stars | ||||||||||||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | Premium | Full-text search Pro only | |||||||||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | PDF, EPUB, images, video | Attachments | ||||||||
| Save audio files | With Whisper transcription | Podcast episodes | mp3, wav, aiff, flac | Voice memos | ||||||||
| Save via API | ||||||||||||
| Auto-sync sources | ||||||||||||
| RSS auto-sync | Premium | Via IFTTT applet | Outputs RSS of your bookmarks | Partial | ||||||||
| YouTube channel sync | Via RSS | |||||||||||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto-sync on paid plans; manual import from extension export on free | Auto sync on Pro | ||||||||||
| GitHub stars sync | ||||||||||||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Premium | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Pro | Pro | Partial | Partial | ||||||
| Library and reading | ||||||||||||
| Reader view | 11 themes, custom typography, 6 interface languages | Partial | ||||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | ||||||||||
| Full-text search | Premium | Premium | No personal library to search across | Supporter+ | Pro | Pro | Partial | |||||
| Semantic / AI search | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) | ||||||||
| Highlights | Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | Unlimited on Premium | 5 colors, notes per highlight, syncs across devices on Pro | Partial | ||||||||
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | Per-highlight notes | ||||||||||
| Tags | Labels | Boards | ||||||||||
| Collections | Partial | Folders | Partial | Folders | Folders | Boards | Nested | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | Magazines | ||
| Public sharing | Partial | Quoteshots for individual quotes | Share quote links with rich social previews | Public folders (Pro) | Public magazines | |||||||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | Partial | Pro | Pro | ||||||||
| AI and agents | ||||||||||||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Raw markdown only | Per-item .md URL | Manual highlight export to Markdown only, no per-item markdown URL | |||||||||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | Highlights export to Markdown / Notion / Obsidian on Pro, not the full article | ||||||||||
| MCP server | Official server | |||||||||||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |||||||||||
| Claude Code skill | ||||||||||||
| AI summaries | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | Ghostreader | Premium (AI Co-Reader) | Summaries in 6 languages, plus chat with the article | Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | AI auto-tagging | |||
| Public API | ||||||||||||
| Import and export | ||||||||||||
| OPML import / export | Import from and export to any OPML-compatible reader | |||||||||||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | |||||||||||
| Instapaper import | CSV export with folders, archive, and starred state | |||||||||||
| CSV / JSON export | Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. | Via API | Partial | HTML + CSV | Highlights only, Pro feature | Partial | HTML, CSV, TXT only | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | |||
| Send to Kindle | EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | Premium | Premium | Pro | ||||||||
| Import Kindle highlights | From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required | Via Readwise Kindle sync (Amazon account login) | Premium, via Amazon account sync |
Omnivore was a free, open-source read-later app that did everything right on paper: RSS feeds, newsletter inbox, PDFs, highlights, labels, filters, rules, full-text search, a GraphQL API that returned markdown, and sync with Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion. It ran on iOS, macOS, Android, web, and extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It shut down on November 15, 2024 after ElevenLabs acquired the team for their ElevenReader TTS product. The cloud service deleted all user data; the open-source codebase still lives on GitHub for anyone who wants to self-host.
Only via self-hosting the open-source codebase on GitHub. The managed cloud service at omnivore.app shut down on November 15, 2024 and all user data was deleted. If you exported in time, importers exist in Readwise Reader and others.
The core team moved to ElevenLabs and is not maintaining Omnivore. Community patches exist, but no ongoing feature development. Treat it as frozen for planning purposes.
Readwise Reader has the most polished newsletter workflow in the hosted category. Matter Premium and Keep both offer per-user email addresses for newsletter subscriptions as well.
ElevenLabs hired the founders in October 2024 to work on their ElevenReader TTS product. The Omnivore cloud service was shut down on November 15, 2024, and user data was deleted shortly after.
Keep is the closest match for the markdown-in, markdown-out approach with a newsletter inbox and an open API. Readwise Reader matches on features like RSS and PDFs but is paid and closed-source.
Yes, but options are limited. Omnivore's repo is still on GitHub (unmaintained). Wallabag is a mature self-hosted read-later alternative. For a low-friction path, use a hosted tool like Keep or Readwise Reader instead.
Keep's per-item markdown URL is the closest match for Omnivore's approach. Readwise Reader's API returns HTML content. Raindrop's export formats are HTML, CSV, and TXT.
Raindrop's free tier is the most generous for pure bookmarking (unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags). Keep's free tier lets you save unlimited links and import a Keep extension X bookmarks export, with paid plans for full-content storage and the heavier integrations. Matter has a usable free tier for basic reading. None match Omnivore's fully-free open-source offering.
Readwise Reader has the most robust PDF support (highlights, annotations, syncing to PKM). Raindrop stores PDFs on all tiers and makes them searchable on Pro. Matter Premium supports PDFs as well.
Raindrop's tagging system is the closest match for Omnivore's labels. Readwise Reader also supports tags. Matter has tags but less nuanced filtering.