Readeck vs Wallabag

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

Readeck

Self-hosted read-it-later app that preserves web page content and lets you read it anytime, offline or online.

MIT

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

	Readeck	Wallabag
License	—	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	1,137	12,996
Forks	100	897
Open Issues	195	768
Last Commit	Sep 30, 2026	Oct 5, 2026
First Released	Mar 20, 2021	Apr 3, 2013
Categories	Bookmark & Content Management Tools	Bookmark & Content Management Tools
Tags	#read-it-later #self hosted #bookmark #archive #privacy	#read-it-later #bookmark #privacy

Readeck1,137

Wallabag

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

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

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.