Free preferred. I haven’t looked at these apps in a while, but I think I liked Matter a bit at one point?
And I used InstaPaper a LONG time ago, will give that a look again.
Thanks in advance!
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I like Goodlinks.
"GoodLinks is available on the App Store for $9.99. It is a universal app compatible with all iOS and macOS devices. You only need to purchase it once on the App Store. When you purchase GoodLinks, you gain permanent access to all the current features, plus any new features introduced within the next one year.
After your one year of feature upgrades is up, new features will require a new in-app purchase to unlock. Once unlocked, those features are yours to keep forever"
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+1 for Goodlinks. I like the UI and native app experience. Although I wish it didn’t require iCloud as I use different accounts on work and personal machines.
Honestly, Read later is a very crowded space, lol. Reeder 5, instapaper, Matter, Raindrop.io, Omnivore…can’t stop listing lol.
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Omnivore has been dead for quite some time now. It was shut down rather abruptly in November last year.
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Readwise Reader is great.
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I’m another Goodlinks fan.
Readwise Reader is nice but expensive. $10/mo. IIRC.
@speedmaster If you want free, how about using the reading list in your browser of choice?
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I’ve settled on Matter 
I am using the free version of Instapaper; mainly because Reeder supports this service natively: I can simply swipe RSS entries to save them in Instapaper and don’t need to open the Share sheet for that.
PS: Pocket is/was the other Read Later service that Reeder supports
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And another +1 for Goodlinks. If all you need is a place to save web content to read later, it’s really good. You can tag articles, add highlights, export your highlights, and export the articles themselves as markdown, PDF, and plain text documents. You can change the font to anything available on your device, as well adjust the font size, line height, and line width. Plus, it has a native Mac app.
If you need more than that—e.g., a destination for your email newsletters, the ability to upload PDFs or other types of documents, text-to-speech, integration with your PKM app of choice, podcast transcriptions, AI summaries etc.—you’ll need a different app.
I use Readwise Reader for PDFs, ePubs, newsletters, and some web content. It’s highly customizable when it comes to organizing what you’ve saved, but it is fiddly. I have mixed feelings about Matter; there’s a lot about it I like—e.g. podcast transcripts—but I wish the home page was my stuff, not its buffet of recommended reading, and that it had better tools for organizing saved content. I suspect I won’t renew my subscription since the only thing it adds to the mix for me is podcast transcription.
I liked instapaper and had a paid account for a few years. But I don’t remember why I quit using it. 
I’ve used Readwise Reader for several years, but will probably let it go away when this year’s subscription ends. It’s getting more and more packed with AI features I have no desire to use. I don’t need “chat with your highlights”?
Trying out GoodLInks again.
Katie
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Depends on what features are important to you. Lately I’ve just been using Reading List in Safari. Works fine, lets me read articles easily behind paywalls, relatively reliable offline reading.
Obviously if you want a permanent repository for everything you’ve ever read or want to read it’s not good. But if you need a triage list and a single place to go for reading you’ve set aside for later, Reading List works great!
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Well I’m glad I didn’t put much into Omnivore … lol … didn’t realize it shut down. I had it on my home screen all this time to use at some point. GoodLinks looks to be very good so will give that a go and replace that Omnivore icon! Will be some work though replacing all my workflows everywhere where I send things to Pocket.
EDIT
Great import options for GoodLinks:
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Goodlinks also supports focus modes so if you save links related to work and only want to see them during working hours, you can filter them.
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Goodlinks is a very good citizen in the Apple ecosystem. Share sheet works wonderfully and it has good shortcuts support.
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Anybody got any advice for Kobo users? Pocket had native integration there.
I’m looking at Wallabag, it’s self hosted but can be integrated with Kobo Wallabag+Kobo = Offline Reading Bliss · On LinuxLiaison
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OP - if you want good recommendations, you need to layout your requirements in excruciating detail. If you don’t know what you want, how would the general MPU audience know?
I’m on the same journey, but I’m looked at 3 different use cases involving bookmarks.
- Bookmark management - Save bookmark to recall and visit again later.
- Read It Later - Save bookmark to read once, maybe take notes in Obsidian, and never visit again.
- Archive - Save bookmarked page offline to read and revisit into perpetuity for reference or even sentimental reasons.
The solution would be an application or combination of applications that satisfy all 3 UCs.
Since Pocket could meet the last 2 , I’ll restrict the discussion to those to not go off topic.
The ideal solution for me would be browser and Apple Id independent, so I cannot use Safari on my Windows PC or VM(parallels) and I have different Apple Id’s on my personal and work Macbooks. eg if I am on my work computer and visit a site to read later, then I want to go home and read it from my personal computer.
Some candidates that I’ve discovered so far
- Linkding - Self hosted. Stores bookmarks with read status, tags, and , with the correct docker image, save pages for offline reading. notably has RSS feed to consume reading list in RSS reader. Bonus -
- Wallabag - just learned about this . I think if can at least do tags, notes, and read status. Maybe more.
- Goodlinks - 3rd party, OTP. I think this does tags and read status. Don’t know if it can save archive copy of not. I think it syncs via iCloud, so it won’t work for me since I have multiple Apple Ids.
- Readeck - self hosted. Unsure on features besides RIL.
- LinkWarden - self hosted. Unsure on features besides RIL.
- Readwise - 3rd party, subscription. I haven’t delved deeped, but it seem like it can do archiving and read status. And there is companion app call Reader in beta. Expensive.
Raindrop.io - 3rd party, subscription. This seems to be a lot like Goodlinks. If you search for it, there are concerns about data privacy and portability.
That is what I have so far. I’m actually running Linkding for RIL, but I need to install the version with the page archiving feature. It uses headless chromium and SingleFile archive format to archive pages.
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Somewhat reluctant Readwise Reader user. It’s just a little overkill for what I want, but it’s highlighting tools/library is great. Still kind of tempted by Instapaper though, that’s what I used for years before Readwise.
Then I just started using Raindrop a couple months ago. I use that just for “I might want to reference this or check this out later” links, no articles to read. I use tags extensively so when I’m looking for that inspiration later, or that thing to buy, it’s easy enough to find. And search is almost exclusively done through its Alfred extension.
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