Raindrop.io vs Omnivore: Which is better? (2026)
Executive verdict & bottom line
Raindrop.io — Omnivore shut down in November 2024 when its team joined ElevenLabs, so there's nothing left to compare. Raindrop is alive, continuously developed since 2013, and free for unlimited bookmarks; former Omnivore users need only their export ZIP.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Raindrop.io | Omnivore | Marqly |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI auto-tagging | — | — | ✓ |
| Semantic search (find by meaning) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| AI summaries | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| AI Q&A over your saves | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Web highlighter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notes on highlights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save page as PDF | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save all open tabs | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Public sharing (boards/collections) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Pocket import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser bookmarks import | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Offline reading | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Self-hostable | — | ✓ | — |
| Price | Free · $28/year or $3.25/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month) | Free | Free · $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month |
- Raindrop.io
- Free · $28/year or $3.25/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month)
- Omnivore
- Free
- Marqly
- Free · $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month
Pricing
- Raindrop.io: Raindrop.io has a free tier; paid plans are $28/year or $3.25/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month). Free includes unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices, plus 100 MB/month uploads. Pro includes full-text search, Stella AI beta chat and summaries, AI suggestions, web archive, annotations, reminders, and daily backups. Feature details checked October 6, 2026 at https://raindrop.io/pro/buy and https://help.raindrop.io/stella; price amounts retain their September 12 verification.
- Omnivore: Omnivore has shut down and no longer accepts new users. Omnivore shut down in November 2024 after its team was acqui-hired by ElevenLabs. Users had until November 30, 2024 to export their data before it was deleted. The open-source code remains on GitHub, and community forks offer self-hosted deployments.
- Marqly: Marqly has a free tier; paid plans are $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month. Free tier needs no card and stores up to 100 bookmarks with search across your whole library; every library AI feature is Pro — auto-tagging, summaries, semantic search, AI Q&A over saves and video chat (YouTube summaries have a 3-per-month free allowance). Offline reading is Pro on web and iOS.
About Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager that has been in continuous development since 2013 and is widely treated as the benchmark for organizing links at scale. Bookmarks live in nested collections with cover art, tags, and several view modes, and the free plan is unusually generous: unlimited bookmarks, collections, unlimited highlights, and devices, plus import and export. Apps cover the web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and other major browsers. The Pro plan — about $28 a year ($3.25/mo direct) — adds full-text search across saved pages and PDFs, Stella AI beta chat and summaries, plus AI suggestions, permanent archived copies of pages, annotations, reminders, a duplicate finder, and daily backups. Collections can be shared publicly or used collaboratively, and a documented API plus thousands of integrations make it easy to wire into other tools. Raindrop imports from Pocket, browser bookmark HTML files, and most competing services.
About Omnivore
Omnivore was an open-source read-it-later app that launched in 2022 and quickly became a favorite alternative to Pocket and Instapaper. It was completely free: saved articles, newsletters, PDFs, and RSS feeds landed in a clean library with labels, filters, and a notably powerful search syntax, backed by native iOS and Android apps, browser extensions for all major browsers, text-to-speech, and plugins that synced highlights to Obsidian and Logseq. In late October 2024, the team announced they had joined ElevenLabs to work on its Reader app, and the hosted service shut down the following month — users had until November 30, 2024 to export their data before it was permanently deleted. Because Omnivore was AGPL-licensed, the code remains on GitHub with well over a thousand forks, and community projects offer self-hosted deployments, though the stack (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, multiple microservices) is demanding to run. No official successor exists.
Which should you choose?
Only one of these tools still exists. Omnivore’s hosted service closed in November 2024 after the team was acqui-hired by ElevenLabs, with a one-month export window before deletion. Raindrop.io, meanwhile, has shipped steadily since 2013. What remains of this matchup is really a migration briefing for ex-Omnivore users weighing Raindrop as a destination — and the philosophical gap matters for that decision. Omnivore was a free, open-source read-it-later app: a clean reader for articles, newsletters, and PDFs with labels and a powerful search syntax. Raindrop is a commercial bookmark manager: world-class at filing and retrieving links, merely adequate at reading them.
Choose Omnivore if
- You’re a determined self-hoster: the AGPL code survives on GitHub with over a thousand forks — but the stack (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, multiple microservices) is heavy, and forks are volunteer-run with no guarantees.
- Realistically, running a fork is the only path; the hosted service and its data are gone.
Choose Raindrop.io if
- You want a maintained, polished home with no server to babysit — apps on web, Mac, iOS, and Android, plus every major browser extension.
- Free actually means free: unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices, with Pro at $28/year adding full-text search and permanent page copies.
- Sustainability matters after the Omnivore experience: Raindrop is funded by its subscribers, precisely the revenue Omnivore never had.
The practical bottom line: Raindrop can absorb an Omnivore export saved before the November 2024 deadline, but ex-Omnivore users should notice what changes. Raindrop has no offline reading mode and a basic reader, so people who loved Omnivore for reading may be happier on Wallabag or Readwise Reader. As a durable, organized library with a generous free plan, though, Raindrop is the safest hosted landing available.
The managed alternative: Zero-setup cloud with AI retrieval
If you want the power of AI retrieval without configuring Docker containers, managing local models, or dealing with unsearchable link graveyards, Marqly delivers a complete managed solution. Marqly provides whole-library search, web highlights, and distraction-free reading on the Free tier, with Pro adding automated AI tagging, summaries, and semantic search by meaning.
Raindrop.io vs Omnivore FAQ
What happened to Omnivore?
Its founders announced on October 29, 2024 that the team was joining ElevenLabs to work on the ElevenReader app, and the hosted service closed the following month. Users had until November 30, 2024 to export; unexported data was permanently deleted. The AGPL open-source code remains on GitHub, where community forks offer self-hosted deployments.
Can Raindrop.io import my old Omnivore data?
If you exported before the November 30, 2024 cutoff, yes — Raindrop imports browser bookmark HTML files and data from most competing services, and import works on the free plan. If you missed the window, there is nothing to migrate; Omnivore deleted all remaining hosted data, and no archive or read-only mode exists.
Is Raindrop.io likely to shut down like Omnivore did?
No one can promise forever, but the models are opposites. Omnivore was entirely free with no revenue, so it vanished the moment its team moved on. Raindrop has been developed continuously since 2013 and is funded by paying Pro subscribers at $28/year — a boring, sustainable arrangement that has already outlasted Pocket and Omnivore both.
