Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App

Sometimes, an app really is just as good as it looks, and that's all there is to it. I like it better than Pocket, better than Instapaper, respects RSS, integrates email newsletters, even lets you convert your google/apple login to an email login with a click. Even support for a private library of PDFs and EPubs! I seem to be having a little bit of trouble adding highlights to Epubs, but this is just about the perfect app.

So now, it's just a question of when the other shoe drops and they look at monetization. How much will it cost, what will the free version lose, what data of mine will be sold, etc? As long as its good enough and stays true to what appears to be its current vision, I can't see why I wouldn't pay for it, so it's just a matter of trusting that it will stay good over time.

I just tried it both on Android and in the browser, and while it looks very nice for the price of nothing, there are two things that will probably make me not use it. In case it's of any use for any dev that might be reading: First issue would be no AMOLED option. Second issue is that I can't get it to remember where I left reading in an article; every time I go back to the article it auto-scrolls to a random part of it (happens in both app and browser).

I'm actually using the remarkable for this kind of functionality. Some article i want to read later --> Share with remarkable, you do need the remarkable cloud service for that work seamless though.

Maybe one could use this to circumvent the paid cloud service.

As someone who pays a yearly subscription for Readwise, I have a hard justifying that price when Omnivore excels at that core functionality entirely for free.

Matter is another paid read-it-later app who's lunch Omnivore is eating, though they seem to be shipping useful features (podcast transcript parsing, send-to-Kindle, etc.) much faster than Readwise.

Tough time to be a for-profit reading app these days, when options like Omnivore exist.

Omnivore looks pretty good. I should try it out.

I've been using and paying for this: https://mymind.com/

I like it better than any of the many alternatives that I have tried/researched thus far.

I recommend everyone to try this app out. It’s just the best iOS app that allows offline read it later functionality and supports self-hosting the server! And highlights and notes work really well on iOS.

I will definetly try this.

Question: how you all deal with the new reddit app not allowing to share the url of the article / link you end in?

Comparing to other reddit clients we all lost (I was using bacon reader, but it's the same with my hn client) the reddit app inside browser is not providing me the possibility to share the page I am visiting (normally the three dots in the top right corner)

How did you solve this problem?

Can you point the app to your own backend instance?

Maybe my primary use case is too rare to get much love, but I'm still stuck on Instapaper because so far in a decade of alternatives nobody has quite hit the mark for me; I want to be able to go into my list of saved articles and create a reading list that is going to then be read to me. They should be read in the order in which I select them. It should be that straightforward. I don't need any fancy synchronization of on-screen text with the speech etc, the whole point is for me to be able to queue up a few things and go. Should take a couple seconds.

How does this compare to Raindrop.io?

This looks very nice, but self hosting requires reliance on google cloud.

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25

My guess is it started as an app first and self-hosting was an afterthought.

It would be interesting to see how other node projects shim in support for other clouds (including locally hosted services in the docker image).

Looks interesting!

I’ve been using Pocket less and less these days because I’m concerned about lock-in (both in terms of my data and the business model).

It’s a shame that Mozilla hasn’t managed to open-source Pocket in all these years. People that care about (and are capable of) self-hosting would probably gladly donate/contribute; people caring about the convenience paired with the brand name could just continue paying for the SaaS version.

I'm happy with Pocket. Not a hardcore user of this type of tools, just need some place to save interesting articles that I read and want to read.

But one feature that I will like on Pocket, and an AI feature that I think will be actually useful and not just hype, is segment my articles (readed/to be read) by broad categories. I don't have time to manually add categories. This tool have something like that?

Is the app also handling PDF documents for the reader mode? I made an app related to this for iOS called ReaderView where you can also highlight your read for later pages, including PDF documents. (No images are preserved for pdf files yet, only the text)

No pagination. That is such an important feature for me in general, since it's much more comfortable way for me to read. And, since I would want to put this on an Android e-ink device, pagination is essential.

Instapaper has been in maintenance mode for years, yet it has workable pagination, and none of the competitors do.

What I'm looking for is more of a solution to save a webpage as it is. Kind of like Internet Archive but better for individual pages. The thing with Internet archive is some things stop working, like mobile view etc

There's also a self hosting option which is on the list to try..

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

This post seems to have brought the server down? It keeps saying there is a server error and to try again in 30 seconds.

Does this service have the kobo / kindle integration? I have found it really useful in pocket

Looks interesting. The android app might work better than Wallabag. Might make the switch.

In their GitHub it mentioned that this is a "native" iOS app, which is not.

Any plans for a Windows app?

naive question: where is the difference to Instapaper?

That logo has some strong Masterchef vibes.

This seems to be a good alternative for evernotes, my only hesitation to switch would be migrating existing notes, does ominvore support migration from evernote ?

And it's dead :(

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