# Readeck

> Open-source, self-hosted read-later and bookmark archive

Readeck is an open-source web application for saving articles, pictures and videos to read later and keep for the long term. It stores the text and images of each page on your own instance, and adds labels, collections built from saved searches, highlights and e-book export. It is free to host yourself under the GNU AGPL v3.0; a paid hosted service has been announced by its developer but was still listed as coming when this was checked.

- **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks
- **Made by:** Readeck (since 2023)
- **Website:** https://readeck.org
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Readeck is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **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.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-hosted | $0 | The complete application as a single binary or container image for your own server, with SQLite as the recommended database. |

Read from https://readeck.org/en/start on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Readeck before buying.

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## Works with

Obsidian, KOReader, SingleFile

**Tags:** Read later, Bookmarks, Highlights, Open source, Self-hostable, Works offline, Public API

## Alternatives

- [wallabag](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wallabag): Open-source read-it-later app you can self-host or use hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/readeck-vs-wallabag)
- [Karakeep](https://toolgpa.com/tools/karakeep): Open-source bookmark app that tags saved links, notes and images. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/karakeep-vs-readeck)
- [Linkwarden](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkwarden): Open-source bookmark manager that preserves a copy of each page. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkwarden-vs-readeck)
- [Instapaper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/instapaper): Read-later app that strips articles down to clean text. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/instapaper-vs-readeck)
- [linkding](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkding): Minimal, self-hosted bookmark manager with tags and archiving. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkding-vs-readeck)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://readeck.org/en/start
- https://readeck.org/en/
- https://readeck.org/en/apps
- https://readeck.org/en/extension
- https://readeck.org/en/download
- https://readeck.org/en/docs/faq
- https://readeck.org/en/blog/
- https://readeck.org/en/blog/202512-2026-roadmap/
- https://readeck.org/en/blog/202608-readeck-23/
- https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck

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