Omnivore vs Wallabag

Comparing two open source alternatives to Pocket and Instapaper . Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Omnivore

AGPL-3.0

Open source read-it-later app with full-text search, highlighting, notes, newsletter support, and integrations with Logseq and Obsidian.

MIT

Self-hosted read-it-later app that saves articles for offline reading with a clean, distraction-free view.

	Omnivore	Wallabag
License	AGPL-3.0	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	16,214	12,890
Forks	1,269	886
Open Issues	372	763
Last Commit	Aug 4, 2026	Aug 10, 2026
First Released	Feb 11, 2022	Apr 3, 2013
Categories	Bookmark & Content Management Tools	Bookmark & Content Management Tools
Tags	#bookmark #read-it-later #self hosted	#read-it-later #bookmark #privacy

Open-source, self-hosted bookmark manager with browser extension support, automatic metadata extraction, and full-text search.

Privacy-focused, command-line bookmark manager that stores links in a local encrypted SQLite database with full-text search.

Open-source self-hostable bookmark manager to organize, discover, and personalize your saved links.

Self-hosted tiling image board for saving, tagging, and sharing images, videos, and webpages.

Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with AI-based automatic tagging, full-text search, and support for links, notes, and images.

Free open-source self-hosted bookmark manager with customizable nested tags, fast search, and local data storage.