Omnivore
Shut downOpen-source read-later app with strong newsletter and markdown workflows.
Free
- Completely free and open source
- Strong newsletter-to-library workflow with per-user email
- Synced with Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion for PKM workflows
Both of these products are no longer hosted services. Omnivore shut down in November 2024 after its team joined ElevenLabs; Pocket shut down in July 2025 after Mozilla wound it down. The comparison matters mainly as a historical reference for anyone trying to decide where their saved content should go next.
Neither is available as a managed product. Omnivore still exists as a self-hostable open-source project; Pocket does not. For active alternatives, see the cards above for Keep, Readwise Reader, Instapaper, Matter, and Raindrop.
You can also try Keep for free as an alternative to Omnivore and Pocket.
Open-source read-later app with strong newsletter and markdown workflows.
Free
Save articles, videos, and stories from any publication.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
Both products were closer to each other than most pairs on this site: open APIs, newsletter inboxes, highlights, and a focus on export. Here's how they compared feature-by-feature.
| Feature | Omnivore | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android |
| Save from email | Per-user address | Send-to-Pocket address |
| Save tweets | ||
| Save YouTube videos | Partial | URL only |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | ||
| Save audio files | ||
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | ||
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | ||
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | ||
| Full-text search | Premium | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Premium | |
| Notes | Partial | |
| Tags | Labels | |
| Collections | Partial | |
| Public sharing | Partial | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Raw markdown only | |
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | ||
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ||
| Send to Kindle |
Omnivore was free (open source). Pocket Premium was $4.99/mo. Both are now irrelevant since neither service is available. Keep is free for 50 items lifetime, then $10/mo for Pro.
Free
All features free; open source.
Free
Save unlimited items, basic offline reading.
Premium
Permanent library, full-text search, unlimited highlights, suggested tags, premium fonts, ad-free.
Both had clear strengths worth remembering: Omnivore for openness and newsletter handling, Pocket for simplicity and distribution. Their weaknesses were more important in the end: small team (Omnivore) and lack of strategic fit inside Mozilla (Pocket).
Omnivore has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.
Pocket has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.
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.
Pocket launched in 2007 as Read It Later, pioneered the modern read-later category, and was acquired by Mozilla in 2017. For nearly two decades it was the default way to save web articles and read them later on any device, with a clean reader view and optional offline access. Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. All user data was permanently deleted on November 12, 2025. The apps and extensions no longer work, and any integrations built against the Pocket API have stopped. If you still have an export file from before that date, most modern alternatives (Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Raindrop, Matter, Keep) can import it.
Technically yes. The repo is at github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. Practically, it's a real infrastructure project with Postgres, Redis, multiple workers, email receivers, and OAuth. Not recommended as a first-time self-host.
Keep for the markdown-and-open-API side that Omnivore emphasised. Readwise Reader for the rich reading and highlights side. Instapaper for the simple-Pocket-replacement side.
Not from the hosted services. Omnivore's cloud data was deleted in late 2024; Pocket's in November 2025. If you exported before those dates and still have the file, alternatives will import it.
Omnivore's hosted service ended November 15, 2024. Pocket's apps and extensions stopped working on July 8, 2025. Pocket's user data was permanently deleted on November 12, 2025.
Different reasons. Omnivore's founders joined ElevenLabs, which didn't want the service. Mozilla shut down Pocket to refocus on Firefox. Neither failed technically; both were strategic decisions by their parent companies.
Yes. The repo is public at github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. It's unmaintained by the original team, but you can still fork it, self-host it, or learn from it.
No, neither had MCP support. The Model Context Protocol was published in late 2024. Omnivore shut down before it could add support, and Pocket didn't implement it before shutdown.
Keep is the closest hosted match: markdown-first, open API, MCP server, newsletter inbox. For a fully open-source path, Wallabag remains the best-maintained self-hosted option.
Readwise Reader imports Omnivore exports directly. Raindrop and Keep accept the underlying HTML/markdown content. Your highlights and labels may not carry over cleanly depending on the target tool.
Extremely unlikely. Mozilla stated the Pocket decision was permanent. ElevenLabs is not resurrecting Omnivore under its own name. The team works on ElevenReader instead.