Readeck vs wallabag
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
wallabag
Open-source read-it-later app you can self-host or use hosted
Free plan · from €11/yr
Where they differ
- Readeck is free. wallabag starts at 11 € per year, or 4 € for 3 months (wallabag.it hosted service).
- Only Readeck lists a macOS app.
- Readeck also covers bookmarks.
In commonFree planWebiOSAndroidBrowser extensionOpen sourceSelf-hostableWorks offlinePublic APIRead laterHighlights
At a glance
| Readeck | wallabag | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free plan |
| Starts at | Free | 11 € per year, or 4 € for 3 months (wallabag.it hosted service) |
| Free plan | Free, open-source software under the GNU AGPL v3.0 that you host yourself. A paid hosted service is announced for 2026, with no price published yet. | The open-source software is free to install on your own server under the MIT license. The hosted wallabag.it service has no free plan, only a 14-day trial. |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial of wallabag.it with no credit card; saving by email, feeds and imports are held back for subscribers |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Readeck | Nicolas Lœuillet and wallabag contributors |
| Price read from | readeck.org | wallabag.it |
| Checked | Oct 6, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Readeck
- People who want a private read-later archive on their own server
- E-reader owners who export articles as EPUB or browse over OPDS
- Readers who highlight and annotate long articles
wallabag
- People who want a read-later archive on a server they control
- Readers looking for a low-cost hosted service based in Europe
- Reading saved articles on a Kobo or PocketBook e-reader
- Former Pocket and Omnivore users moving an existing archive
Worth knowing
Readeck
- Readeck must be self-hosted for now; the hosted service announced for early 2026 is still listed as coming, with no price set.
- A public share link for a bookmark stays valid for only 24 hours.
- There is no store for paywall logins; pages behind a login are saved through the browser extension instead.
- Saving several text selections from a page at once works only in the Firefox extension.
wallabag
- The hosted wallabag.it service has no free plan: after the 14-day trial it costs 4 € for 3 months or 11 € a year, and prices are in euros only.
- During the wallabag.it trial, saving by email, RSS and Atom feeds and imports from other services are switched off.
- Using wallabag at no cost means installing it on your own server and handling backups and upgrades yourself.
- The iOS app went closed source with its own paid features from version 7.6, and the project no longer presents it as the official iOS app.
Key features
Readeck
- Articles, pictures and videos
- Saves the readable content of a web page, keeping its text and images on your instance, and adapts when a link points to an image or a video.
- Labels, favorites and collections
- Bookmarks can be archived, marked as favorites and labelled. Full-text search finds them again, and a search query can be saved as a dynamic collection.
- Highlights and notes
- Highlight and annotate the important parts of saved text, browse the highlights from all your content, and add a Markdown note above a bookmark.
- Video transcripts
- When a saved video has a transcript, Readeck retrieves it so it can be read, highlighted, searched and exported like an article.
- E-book export and OPDS
- Any article, or a whole collection, exports as a single EPUB file, and e-readers that support OPDS can open the Readeck catalog directly.
- Apps and browser extension
- Official Android and iOS apps read saved content offline, and the Firefox and Chrome extension sends the page as your browser sees it, including sites you are logged in to.
wallabag
- Article extraction and reading view
- wallabag pulls the article content out of a saved page and stores the readable text in your account, shown in a distraction-free view that adapts to phones and tablets.
- Tags, filters and full-text search
- Saved articles can be tagged, marked as favorites, filtered and found again through a search engine that covers their full text.
- Highlights and annotations
- An annotation system lets you highlight extracts in an article and write notes against them.
- Mobile apps and browser add-ons
- Android and iOS apps download saved articles for offline reading, and Chrome and Firefox add-ons save the page you are on in one click.
- Feeds, e-readers and export
- Unread, starred, archived or tagged articles can be published as private RSS or Atom feeds, sent to Kobo and PocketBook e-readers with community apps, and exported as PDF, ePUB, mobi, JSON, CSV, txt or HTML.
- Imports from other services
- Reading lists can be imported from Pocket, Instapaper, Pinboard, Omnivore, Shaarli, another wallabag instance or any RSS or Atom feed, keeping tags and read and favorite status.
Plans
Readeck
Self-hosted$0
The complete application as a single binary or container image for your own server, with SQLite as the recommended database.
wallabag
Self-hostedFree
The full open-source application on a server you install, back up and upgrade yourself.
3 months4 €
for 3 months, not renewed automatically
The complete hosted wallabag.it service for one quarter, with every feature included.
1 year11 €
per year, not renewed automatically
The complete hosted service for a year in a single payment; the vendor marks it as its most popular plan.
The ❤️ subscription30 €
per year
The same hosted service and features, priced higher to give extra funding to the open-source project and its maintenance.
Ways to pay less
Readeck
No public discounts listed.
wallabag
- Annual discount
A year costs less than four 3-month terms
The pricing page lists 11 € for one year against 4 € for 3 months, so a year bought in one payment costs 5 € less than four consecutive 3-month subscriptions.
