A read-it-later app saves an article now and gives it back later as clean, readable text, often offline and with highlights. Here are six worth considering in 2026, what each costs and where each runs, plus the two well-known services that have shut down.
We make Trezio, and Trezio is not a reading app: it has no reader view, no offline reading and no highlights. This page is here to help you pick a reading app. We mention Trezio once, near the end, for people whose “read later” list is really a “keep for later” list. Prices and features come from each app's own website or App Store listing, checked on 12 October 2026.
At a glance
| App | Price | Free plan | Platforms | Offline reading | Highlights | Imports a Pocket export |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instapaper | $5.99/month or $59.99/year | Unlimited saves; 5 notes a month | Web, iPhone, iPad, Android | Yes | Yesunlimited on Premium | Yes |
| Readwise Reader | $9.99/month billed yearly, or $12.99 monthly | 30-day trial only | Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes (upload the zip) |
| Matter | Several paid tiersUS App Store | Unlimited saves | iPhone, iPad, web | Yes | Yesunlimited on Premium | Not confirmed |
| GoodLinks | $9.99 onceUS App Store; new features after a year need Premium | No | iPhone, iPad, Mac | Yes | Yes | Lists Pocketfile format not stated |
| wallabag | Hosted €11/year | Free to self-host | Web, iPhone, Android, Chrome, Firefox | Yes (in the apps) | Yes | Yes (CSV) |
| Readeck | Free (self-hosted only) | Free to self-host | Web, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Chrome, Firefox | Yes (in the apps) | Yes | Yes |
| Trezionot a reading app | $3.70/month, or $2.95/month billed yearly | 100 items, 5 folders | Web, Chrome, Android | No | No | Yes (CSV or HTML) |
“Several paid tiers” for Matter: its App Store listing shows a range of Premium, Pro and Patron prices without saying which is current, so we don't quote one. Readeck plans a hosted service but had not launched it as of 12 October 2026.
Sign up and read
The long-running read-it-later app, and the simplest choice for most people: save articles and read them in a clean view on the web, iPhone, iPad or Android, including offline. The free plan has no limit on saves.
A reading app for people who read a lot and highlight as they go: articles, newsletters, RSS feeds, PDFs, ebooks and YouTube in one queue. It is the only one here with a Windows app, and it works offline.
A carefully designed reading app with natural-sounding text-to-speech, so you can listen to articles as well as read them. Articles are available offline by default. There is no Android app.
A tidy read-it-later app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that syncs through iCloud. You pay once instead of subscribing, and get a year of new features with it.
Open source
Open source since 2013. Run it on your own server for free, or pay a small yearly fee for the hosted wallabag.it in Europe. Apps for iPhone and Android read offline, and you can export articles as ebooks.
A newer self-hosted app that runs as one small program, even on an old Raspberry Pi. It keeps a readable copy of each page, saves video transcripts, supports highlights and labels, and exports articles or whole collections as an ebook.
No longer available
Omnivore, a free and open-source read-it-later app, closed its hosted service. wallabag reported at the time that the team was joining ElevenLabs and that user data would be deleted at the end of November. The code remains open source and can still be self-hosted.
Pocket stopped working, after Mozilla announced its closure on 22 May 2025. Exports closed in November 2025. Our Pocket alternatives page covers where to move a Pocket export.
How to choose
Two checks before you commit: does it run on every device you use (Matter and GoodLinks have no Android app), and can you get your list out again later? After Pocket and Omnivore, an export you can open elsewhere matters.
If you rarely read the list
Many read-later lists are really reference libraries: recipes, tools, docs and articles you want to find again, not read on the train. Trezio is built for that. It saves each link with its title, description and thumbnail, and keeps it in folders and tags next to your text notes, screenshots and voice notes, with AI summaries on request and an encrypted vault for logins. It runs on the web, in Chrome and on Android. It does not store a readable copy of the page, so for actual reading, pick one of the apps above.
FAQ
Instapaper's free plan saves unlimited articles and syncs them across the web, iPhone, iPad and Android. Matter's free tier has no cap on your library either, but runs only on iPhone, iPad and the web. If you can run your own server, wallabag and Readeck are free and open source.
Choose Instapaper if you mainly want to save articles and read them later in a clean view: it has a free plan, and Premium is $5.99 a month. Choose Readwise Reader if you also read newsletters, RSS feeds, PDFs and ebooks and highlight a lot: it has no free plan, costs $9.99 a month billed yearly after a 30-day trial, and has desktop apps.
Nothing official. Omnivore's hosted service closed in November 2024; wallabag reported that the team was joining ElevenLabs and that user data would be deleted at the end of that month. The code is still open source and can be self-hosted. For a hosted replacement, look at Instapaper or Readwise Reader; for a free open-source one, wallabag or Readeck.
Mozilla shut Pocket down. It announced the closure on May 22, 2025, the apps stopped working on July 8, 2025, and exports closed in November 2025. Instapaper, Readwise Reader, wallabag and Readeck can all import a Pocket export if you kept one.
All six reading apps on this page let you read saved articles without a connection in their mobile apps: Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Matter, GoodLinks, and the wallabag and Readeck apps. Readeck can also export articles as EPUB ebooks for an e-reader.
Instapaper, Readwise Reader, wallabag and Readeck have Android apps. Matter lists only iPhone, iPad and the web, and GoodLinks is for iPhone, iPad and Mac only.
Yes. If most of what you save is for reference rather than for reading this week, a library suits it better than a reading queue. Trezio, which we make, keeps links with their title, description and thumbnail in folders and tags, next to your notes and screenshots. It is not a reading app: it has no reader view, offline reading or highlights. The free plan holds 100 items.
Keep reading
Where to move your saves now that Pocket is gone, and what each app does with your export.
For links you keep rather than read: bookmark managers compared by price, apps and limits.
Strip tracking parameters from links before you save or share them, right in your browser.
Why saved-for-later piles grow, and how to keep what you save useful.
All checked on 12 October 2026.