Just learned that POCKET will shut down in July 2025. It is a great service to collect articles on various devices and read later on a tablet & offline.

Which alternatives are out there?

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Here is a list

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven't tried it yet

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I went with Readeck a few months ago. It's a nice solution between the barebones ones and those that have all the features.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I just set up Readeck today. I've never used pocket or anything of the sort but it's already proving pretty useful. I tend to do a lot of 100%/platinum runs of various games and I've been tossing guide bookmarks in a folder for ages, this is a great way to sort those out

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I use Readeck as well. My only complaint about Readeck is there really is no 'one click, backup/export' option. You can, however, download all the zip files it makes along with the db, and transfer it to another server. I know you can import bookmarks from Firefox, and you can export the epub, but you can't export all of your saves. At least I've never found a way beyond just downloading the full db and zips.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'll throw another recommendation behind Karakeep. The fact I can share a page fromy mobile browser or use a browser extension on a laptop/desktop is excellent.

    Another great thing for me is the oidc support so I can log in without passwords and rely on my Pocket ID instance and log in using a passkey. (Authelia, Authentic, Keycloak and similar identity providers would work too)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For bookmarking: https://raindrop.io/

    But it’s not self-hosted and I’m not sure it supports offline reading.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Currently trying Readeck.

    Karakeep is also popular, but doesn't default to an article view which I prefer.

    Wallabag looks good, but I had difficulty getting its docker setup

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've just started using linkwarden and love it as well. I chose it over Karakeep because it archives a copy of the page so it's still accessible if the original page is modified or becomes inaccessible in the future.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've mostly loved it too but I'd really like to have something that had lower RAM usage. I only have a few hundred entries and right now my container stack is using ~620Mb. Just seems rather high for what it's doing/does. Are you finding the same kind of usage?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I use my note taking app with a specific tag for "read later"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use and self-host linkding

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    it's not perfect, but i've just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I really like https://karakeep.app/.

    I have it plugged into a local Ollama instance for automatic tagging of articles.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    • Readeck is kind of a 'read it later' app.
    • Karakeep is for saving data like web sites etc, that you'd like to preserve the content thereof.
    • LinkWarden is for links, bookmarks tho you can use it like Readeck.
    • Walabag: I've never used it but I've heard good things about it.

    Others can be found here: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I tried Hoarder (KaraKeep) & Linkwarden. Both excellent but I preferred the UI for Linkwarden, particularly on mobile, so I stuck with that - i found Hoarder awkward to edit thumbnails for example though things may have changed in KaraKeep. From Android perspective both have apps but I prefer to use browser plugin. With Linkwarden there's some hoops to jump through on Android Firefox but it works perfectly once set up. Both excellent choices.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thanks everyone for your many replies! Week start out with wallabag and see where it will lead me.

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  • Kind of a piggyback on this -- is there a favoured "search my saved links from karakeep/linkwarden/hamster.io and show them first before feeding the search terms to google/bing/whatever" extension for your browser?

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