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The Omnivore app shut down in November 2024. One of the most loved read-it-later apps on the internet was acquired by ElevenLabs, the team moved on to work on text-to-speech, and the servers went dark with about two weeks of notice. Around half a million people watched their saved libraries get deleted on a schedule.
There is a particular sting in how it ended. Omnivore's standout feature was its read-aloud voice, and the company that took the team builds text-to-speech. The reading app died so its makers could go and make voices talk somewhere else.
Then in 2025 it happened again. Mozilla closed Pocket, an eighteen-year-old app with millions of users, on the same terms: read-only, then a short export window, then gone.
The pattern is hard to miss. A read-later library you do not control is only as permanent as someone else's business model. If you are here, you want a replacement that cannot do this to you again. We built Yaps, so we are biased, and we will be honest about what it does and does not do. But the core idea is simple, and it is the one thing Omnivore could not offer: your saved articles become plain files on your own device that no company can ever delete.
Cloud read-later
Your library lives on someone's server
You save to a hosted reader, and your articles sit inside an account you do not control. A price change, an acquisition, or a shutdown can take the whole library, often with a short export window. Omnivore and Pocket both ended exactly this way.
Files you own
Your articles live on your own device
You save each page as plain Markdown in a private vault on your machine. It works offline, it is searchable, it reads aloud, and it syncs to your phone. A shutdown cannot reach into a file you already hold.
Omnivore アプリはどうなったのでしょうか?
Omnivore was a free, open-source read-it-later app, and for a few years it was the favourite of people who took saving seriously. In late October 2024 the team announced they were joining ElevenLabs, the AI voice company. On 15 November 2024 the hosted service was switched off and user data was permanently deleted. There was no read-only archive and no grace period beyond a roughly two-week export window. The roughly 500,000 people who used it kept only what they had exported in time.
It is worth being specific about what people loved, because that is the bar any replacement has to clear:
A clean, distraction-free reader that stripped ads and trackers down to the writing. Highlights and notes that synced out to Obsidian, Logseq, and Notion. Labels, filters, and rules for organising a big library. Fast full-text search across everything you saved. A newsletter inbox, where you forwarded newsletters to an Omnivore address and read them in the app. RSS subscriptions. Built-in text-to-speech, its signature feature. PDF and EPUB reading, offline downloads, an open API, and mobile apps. And the two that made the shutdown hurt most: it was free, and it was open-source.
The code is still on GitHub under an open-source licence, and a community fork lives at omnivore.work. But the hosted app, the one almost everyone actually used, is gone.
Omnivore アプリはまだ利用できますか?
No. The Omnivore app and its hosted service ended for good in November 2024. What remains is the open-source code on GitHub and a community self-host fork, which only helps if you can run a database, a search engine, and a handful of background services yourself. Almost nobody did, and that is the quiet lesson here: open-source did not save anyone's library, because the library lived on a server someone else turned off. Pocket told the same story a year later. The only copy a company cannot take is the one that was never in their custody.
Yaps は、Omnivore について気に入ったものを返します
Yaps is not a clone of Omnivore's reader. It is a privacy-first voice and notes app, and its free Save to Yaps extension does the part that mattered most: it saves any web page as a clean file you own.
Click the button on any page. Yaps runs a reader-mode pass to drop the ads and clutter, converts the article to clean Markdown on your own machine, pulls in the images, and drops it into your private vault under the Resources tab. Nothing is uploaded. The result is a real, searchable note you can read, edit, tag, and listen to, sitting alongside the rest of your work, including your voice notes.
Here is how that maps, feature by feature, onto what Omnivore gave you. Yaps matches the core of it, exceeds it on privacy and ownership, and is honestly missing a few of the reader-hub extras.
What Yaps Gives Back
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Clean reading text a reader-mode pass converts the article to clean Markdown on your device, ads and clutter gone.
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Full-text search the vault is searchable across everything you save, not just titles and tags.
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Labels and tags organise saves the way you organised your Omnivore library.
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Read-aloud Yaps reads any saved article out loud, the very feature Omnivore was known for.
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Offline, with images the page and its pictures live on your disk and open with no connection.
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A 7-day free trial start with a 7-day free trial that unlocks every feature, then continue on Pro or Max.
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You own the files every save is a plain .md file on your machine, so no shutdown can take it.
What Omnivore Had That Yaps Does Not
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RSS feeds Yaps has no feed reader.
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Newsletter inbox there is no email-in address for subscriptions.
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A public API no API or webhooks for automation.
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PDF and EPUB conversion a PDF is saved as a bookmark, not turned into a Markdown note.
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Open-source self-hosting Yaps is private and local, but not open-source software you run yourself.
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An iPhone app Android is live, and iPhone is coming soon. The extension is Chromium-only.
There is a small irony worth naming. Omnivore's most loved feature was its read-aloud voice, and the company that ended it builds text-to-speech. Yaps reads your saved articles aloud too, on your own device, with text-to-speech, and the files stay yours.
雑食動物が私たちに教えてくれた教訓: ファイルを所有する
The most useful thing to take from the shutdown is not which app to flee to. It is why even a free, open-source, beloved app could not protect a single library.
Open-source did not help, because running Omnivore yourself meant standing up a database, a search engine, a content fetcher, and several services. The overwhelming majority of users relied on the hosted version, and that is the one that was deleted. Free did not help either. Being free with no revenue is part of why it ended.
Yaps takes the opposite bet. The page is converted on your machine and saved as a Markdown file in a local vault. There is no account to lapse and no server to go dark. Exporting your data is not even a feature, because there is nothing to export: the files are already sitting on your disk in a format every app can open. If Yaps vanished tomorrow, your library would not move an inch.
Privacy by architecture, not by policy. If the page is converted on your machine and never sent anywhere, no policy change and no shutdown can expose or erase what is already yours.
Save to Yaps
保存した記事が携帯電話に届く仕組み
You clip on your laptop, because that is where you find long articles. You want to finish them on your phone, on the train, with no signal. Yaps carries the note across with vault sync.
Once your phone and desktop are paired, every page you save on the laptop appears in the Yaps app on your phone, and edits sync both ways over an encrypted link between your own devices, set up by scanning a QR code. The content does not sit on a public server in between. Two honest notes: vault sync is a premium feature, so a page you save on your desktop does not push to your phone until your plan includes it, and on mobile Android is live today while iPhone support is coming soon.
簡単な比較
If you do want to weigh the named tools, here is how the main options compare on the things that matter after Omnivore.
| Capability | Yaps | Readwise Reader | Wallabag | Instapaper |
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| You own the files (portable Markdown) | Yes, local .md | Cloud account | Yes (self-host) | Cloud account |
| Converts and stores on your device | Yes | No (cloud) | Yes (your server) | No (cloud) |
| Full-text search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reads articles aloud | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| RSS feeds and newsletter inbox | No | Yes | RSS only | No |
| Survives a vendor shutdown | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Price | 7-day free trial, then from $15/mo | ~$9.99/mo | Free (self-host) | Free |
同様のホスト型リーダーが必要な場合
Yaps is the durable archive layer, not a full reading hub, and we would rather point you to the right tool than pretend it is everything. If you want Omnivore's whole feature set in one place:
Readwise Reader is the closest all-in-one replacement, with RSS, a newsletter inbox, highlights, and text-to-speech, for around ten dollars a month in the cloud. Wallabag and Karakeep are the open-source, self-hosted options for people who want to own the server too. Instapaper is the free, minimalist reader, now that its premium features are free. Matter has the best text-to-speech of the dedicated readers, on a polished iPhone app.
Use one of those if RSS, a newsletter inbox, or a dedicated reading interface is the thing you cannot live without. Use Yaps if owning your articles as private files is what you came for.
Omnivore からの場合: エクスポートを Yaps に持ち込みます
If you exported your Omnivore data before the shutdown, you have a folder of HTML or Markdown files. The good news is that these are already the kind of plain files this whole article is about, and the lesson is to keep them that way.
Going forward, install the Save to Yaps extension and the free Yaps app, pair them once, and every new article you save becomes a Markdown note in your vault. Drop your existing Omnivore export into your vault folder alongside them, and your old library and your new saves live in the same private, searchable place. From here, the only migration you ever do again is none, because the files are yours.
If you never exported in time, you are not alone, and it is the cleanest argument for this approach. Start fresh with saves you own, so the next shutdown is simply not your problem.
Keep the web. Read it anywhere. Lose it never.
Add the free Save to Yaps extension to clip any page as private Markdown, then read your saved library on Android, offline and synced. Scan the QR on desktop, or tap the Play badge on mobile.
よくある質問
What happened to the Omnivore app?
ElevenLabs acquired the Omnivore team in late October 2024 to work on text-to-speech, and the hosted service was switched off on 15 November 2024. User data was permanently deleted after a roughly two-week export window, so only people who exported in time kept a copy.
Is the Omnivore app still available?
No. The Omnivore app and its hosted service are gone for good as of November 2024. Only the open-source code on GitHub and a community self-host fork remain, which require running a database and search engine yourself, so for almost everyone the app is simply no longer available.
Did Omnivore shut down, and why?
Yes, permanently, in November 2024. It was free with no revenue model, and when ElevenLabs acquired the team for text-to-speech work, the read-later service was discontinued rather than kept running.
Can I still get my Omnivore data back?
Only if you exported it before the November 2024 deadline. Everything not exported during that window was permanently deleted with no recovery and no read-only archive, which is exactly why owning your files matters.
What is the best Omnivore alternative in 2026?
It depends on what you want back. Readwise Reader is the closest all-in-one hosted replacement, Wallabag and Karakeep are best for self-hosting, and Yaps is best if your priority is owning your articles as files that no shutdown can delete.
What is the best free Omnivore alternative?
Instapaper, which made its premium features free in 2026, and Raindrop.io, which has a generous free tier, are the strongest free hosted picks. Yaps is not free, but a 7-day free trial lets you try every feature before choosing Pro or Max.
Is there an Omnivore alternative with text-to-speech?
Yes. Yaps reads any saved article aloud on desktop and Android, and Matter and Readwise Reader include it too. There is a fitting irony here, since the company that ended Omnivore was itself a text-to-speech company.
Is there a private, own-your-data Omnivore replacement?
Yes. Yaps converts each page to Markdown on your own device and stores it in a local vault, so nothing is uploaded and nothing can be deleted by a vendor. Wallabag and Karakeep also keep data on your own server.
What is the best open-source or self-hosted Omnivore alternative?
Wallabag is the mature self-hosted read-later app, and Karakeep adds AI auto-tagging, though both require running and maintaining your own server.
How is Yaps different from a normal read-later app?
A read-later app keeps your articles in its cloud and gives you a reader. Yaps saves each article as a plain Markdown file in a private vault on your device, so the library is yours to own, search, read aloud, and sync, rather than a hosted account a vendor controls.
Does Yaps have RSS feeds or a newsletter inbox like Omnivore?
No. Yaps saves, owns, searches, and reads web pages aloud, but it does not include an RSS feed reader or a newsletter email inbox. If those are central to how you read, Readwise Reader is the better hub, and you can still use Yaps as the durable archive underneath it.
Did Pocket also shut down?
Yes. Mozilla closed Pocket in 2025, deleting account data after a final export window, the same pattern that ended Omnivore. Two of the best-known read-later apps disappeared within a year of each other.
Can I read my saved articles offline and on my phone?
Yes. Yaps stores each saved page and its images on your device, so it reads correctly with no connection, and with premium vault sync the same note appears in the Yaps app on your phone. Android is live today, and iPhone support is coming soon.
How do I make sure my read-later library never disappears again?
Save your articles as plain files you own, either by self-hosting Wallabag or Karakeep, or by clipping pages into local Markdown with Save to Yaps. A file already sitting on your own device has no off switch a company can flip.
最終的な考え
Saving the web should feel calm, not anxious. After Omnivore and Pocket, the question is no longer which reader has the nicest interface. It is whether the library you build this year will still be yours next year.
If you want a complete hosted reader, Readwise Reader is the most capable, and Instapaper is the best free one. If you want to run your own, Wallabag and Karakeep are made for it. And if what you really want is to never lose your reading again, the answer is to stop storing it in someone else's cloud at all.
That is what Save to Yaps is for: one click to clip any page, clean text and images saved privately as Markdown on your own machine, searchable forever, read aloud when you want it, and waiting on your phone. Add the extension and download the free app, pair them once, and the next good article you find is yours to keep, for good.