# wallabag

> Open-source read-it-later app you can self-host or use hosted

wallabag is an open-source read-it-later application that saves the readable text of web articles into a personal archive with tags, full-text search and annotations. It can be installed on your own server at no charge under the MIT license, or used through wallabag.it, a paid service hosted in Europe and run by one of the project's developers. Saved articles can be read on the web, in mobile apps with offline reading, through feeds in an RSS reader or on an e-reader.

- **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks
- **Made by:** Nicolas Lœuillet and wallabag contributors (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://wallabag.org
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

wallabag has a free plan. Paid plans start at 11 € per year, or 4 € for 3 months (wallabag.it hosted service).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 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:** 14-day free trial of wallabag.it with no credit card; saving by email, feeds and imports are held back for subscribers.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-hosted | Free | The full open-source application on a server you install, back up and upgrade yourself. |
| 3 months | 4 € for 3 months, not renewed automatically | The complete hosted wallabag.it service for one quarter, with every feature included. |
| 1 year | 11 € 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 ❤️ subscription | 30 € per year | The same hosted service and features, priced higher to give extra funding to the open-source project and its maintenance. |

Read from https://wallabag.it/en/pricing/ on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with wallabag before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **A year costs less than four 3-month terms** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://wallabag.it/en/pricing/

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

- 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.

## Works with

Miniflux, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, Unread, Fiery Feeds, Vienna RSS, Kobo, PocketBook

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

## Alternatives

- [Readeck](https://toolgpa.com/tools/readeck): Open-source, self-hosted read-later and bookmark archive. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/readeck-vs-wallabag)
- [Instapaper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/instapaper): Read-later app that strips articles down to clean text. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/instapaper-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-wallabag)
- [Linkwarden](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkwarden): Open-source bookmark manager that preserves a copy of each page. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkwarden-vs-wallabag)
- [Readwise](https://toolgpa.com/tools/readwise): Highlight library with a daily review and a read-later app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/readwise-vs-wallabag)

## Sources

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

- https://wallabag.it/en/pricing/
- https://wallabag.org/
- https://wallabag.org/apps-and-readers/
- https://wallabag.org/self-hosting/
- https://wallabag.org/news/20260327-important-change-ios-app/
- https://wallabag.it/en/
- https://wallabag.it/en/features/
- https://wallabag.it/en/applications/
- https://wallabag.it/en/faq/
- https://wallabag.it/en/legal-notice/
- https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
- https://doc.wallabag.org/

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