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 shows up where it ranks, we don't push it up the list.
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
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/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 | Readwise Reader | Matter | Instapaper | Keep | Inoreader | Feedly | Raindrop | Evernote | Dewey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | 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 | Per-user Reader address | Premium | Unique save-by-email address | Forward to in.keep.md | Forwarding address | |||||
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | Quoteshots + X integration | Partial | Native X bookmarks sync | Partial | ||||||
| Save YouTube videos | Partial | With transcript highlighting | Premium; with transcription | URL only | With transcripts | Via channel feed | Via channel feed | Partial | Partial | ||
| Save GitHub stars | |||||||||||
| Save PDFs | Premium | Converted to markdown | Full-text search Pro only | ||||||||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | PDF, EPUB, images, video | Attachments | |||||||
| Save audio files | Podcast episodes | With Whisper transcription | 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 Pro | ||||||||||
| GitHub stars sync | |||||||||||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Premium | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Pro | Pro | Partial | Partial | |||||
| Library and reading | |||||||||||
| Reader view | Partial | ||||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | |||||||||
| Full-text search | Premium | Premium | Supporter+ | Pro | Pro | Partial | |||||
| Semantic / AI search | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) | |||||||
| Highlights | Unlimited on Premium | Partial | |||||||||
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | ||||||||||
| Tags | Labels | Boards | |||||||||
| Collections | Partial | Folders | Partial | Folders | Folders | Boards | Nested | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | Magazines | |
| Public sharing | Quoteshots for individual quotes | Partial | Public folders (Pro) | Public magazines | |||||||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | Partial | Partial | Pro | Pro | ||||||
| AI and agents | |||||||||||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Raw markdown only | Per-item .md URL | |||||||||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | ||||||||||
| MCP server | Official server | ||||||||||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | ||||||||||
| Claude Code skill | |||||||||||
| AI summaries | Ghostreader | Premium (AI Co-Reader) | AI tagging on capture | Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Stella) | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | AI auto-tagging | |||
| Public API | |||||||||||
| Import and export | |||||||||||
| OPML import / export | |||||||||||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | ||||||||||
| Instapaper import | |||||||||||
| CSV / JSON export | Via API | Partial | HTML + CSV | Partial | HTML, CSV, TXT only | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | ||||
| Send to Kindle | Premium | Premium | Pro |
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 (unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags). Keep's free tier is 50 items lifetime. 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.