What happened to Omnivore, and what should I use instead?

Omnivore’s hosted service shut down in November 2024. The project’s own README now says: “Omnivore is now a completely Self-Hosted application. The Cloud application was deprecated in November of 2024.” The code is still on GitHub and a community keeps it going on Discord, but there is no hosted Omnivore to sign in to. Checked on the project’s GitHub page on 2026-11-09.

What happened

Omnivore was a free, open-source read-it-later app that launched in 2022. Its team announced on October 29, 2024 that they were joining ElevenLabs to work on its reader app, and the hosted service closed shortly after. Users had until November 30, 2024 to export their libraries, and unexported data was deleted. We have not been able to re-confirm the ElevenLabs details on a vendor page, so treat that part as secondhand.

It was always free, with no paid plan. That is part of why it could end so abruptly: there was no subscription income to keep it running. If you exported in time you have a ZIP of your saves and highlights that many other apps can read. If you did not, that data is gone.

Can you still use Omnivore?

Only by self-hosting it. The original stack is demanding, with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and several services, and community forks are maintained by volunteers. The iOS and Android apps depended on the hosted service. For most people, a maintained alternative is easier.

What to use instead

• Self-hosted, closest in spirit: Wallabag is the most established read-it-later server. Linkwarden adds archiving and collaboration. Karakeep adds AI tagging and summaries. All three are open source.
• Hosted, power-user reading: Readwise Reader covers the power-user reading feature set, at a subscription price.
• Hosted, AI-first library: Marqly. It saves articles, videos and links from the browser or the iOS and Android apps, highlights text in six colors, and on Pro finds saves by meaning.

Where Marqly fits, honestly

Marqly is a bookmark library with highlights, not a drop-in clone of Omnivore’s reader, and it is not self-hostable. The free plan holds up to 100 bookmarks with search across all of them and no card required. Pro is $72 per year or $9 per month for unlimited bookmarks, AI summaries and tagging, and semantic search. There is no free trial.

If you want something that cannot disappear because its team moves on, self-hosting is the only real guarantee, and Marqly cannot offer it. What Marqly does offer is a standard export you can take elsewhere at any time. See can I export my data.

Compare and switch

• Omnivore alternatives, ranked
• Marqly vs Omnivore
• Omnivore vs Karakeep
• Omnivore vs Linkwarden
• Best read-it-later apps