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Just learned that POCKET will shut down in July 2025. It is a great service to collect articles on various devices and read later on a tablet & offline.

Which alternatives are out there?

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here is a list

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven't tried it yet

[-] nimmo@social.nimmog.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I'll throw another recommendation behind Karakeep. The fact I can share a page fromy mobile browser or use a browser extension on a laptop/desktop is excellent.

Another great thing for me is the oidc support so I can log in without passwords and rely on my Pocket ID instance and log in using a passkey. (Authelia, Authentic, Keycloak and similar identity providers would work too)

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago
[-] markstos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

For bookmarking: https://raindrop.io/

But it’s not self-hosted and I’m not sure it supports offline reading.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's a downright dirty shame no devs have taken on Raindrop. It's a slick little app.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That sucks, I immediately wanted it. :(

[-] dabe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It’s still worth using, IMO. They present themselves as very privacy respecting and technologically savvy. I can say after years of using it, it feels that way. They never get in my way and consistently release quality, stable updates.

[-] HowdWeGetHereAnyways@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I love my LinkWarden instance. I haven't found it lacking for my needs, despite over 3000 links thus far

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I've just started using linkwarden and love it as well. I chose it over Karakeep because it archives a copy of the page so it's still accessible if the original page is modified or becomes inaccessible in the future.

[-] jacksquat@what.forfi.win 1 points 1 month ago

I've mostly loved it too but I'd really like to have something that had lower RAM usage. I only have a few hundred entries and right now my container stack is using ~620Mb. Just seems rather high for what it's doing/does. Are you finding the same kind of usage?

[-] HowdWeGetHereAnyways@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's definitely fair. I'll admit its not the lightest on ram but it hasn't gone crazy on me yet. With that said, I'm running if on a home lab k3s, and haven't remotely flirted with running out of ram

I'm also using the hell out of it all the time, so I don't mind it using what needs right now.

FWIW, with 3000 links, my container users 787 MB of ram. I don't think that's crazy considering what it's doing during the archiving process

[-] jacksquat@what.forfi.win 1 points 1 month ago

That makes more sense with that many links. Thanks for the response.

[-] sean_lemmy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Currently trying Readeck.

Karakeep is also popular, but doesn't default to an article view which I prefer.

Wallabag looks good, but I had difficulty getting its docker setup

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

I use my note taking app with a specific tag for "read later"

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
  • Readeck is kind of a 'read it later' app.
  • Karakeep is for saving data like web sites etc, that you'd like to preserve the content thereof.
  • LinkWarden is for links, bookmarks tho you can use it like Readeck.
  • Walabag: I've never used it but I've heard good things about it.

Others can be found here: https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket

[-] HowdWeGetHereAnyways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

LinkWarden also saves various archival copies of sites (as well as it can with anti-robot measures anyways)

[-] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the nice summary!

[-] benzoid@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I use and self-host linkding

[-] Saltarello@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I tried Hoarder (KaraKeep) & Linkwarden. Both excellent but I preferred the UI for Linkwarden, particularly on mobile, so I stuck with that - i found Hoarder awkward to edit thumbnails for example though things may have changed in KaraKeep. From Android perspective both have apps but I prefer to use browser plugin. With Linkwarden there's some hoops to jump through on Android Firefox but it works perfectly once set up. Both excellent choices.

[-] bladewdr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

I really like https://karakeep.app/.

I have it plugged into a local Ollama instance for automatic tagging of articles.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

it's not perfect, but i've just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook

[-] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Kind of a piggyback on this -- is there a favoured "search my saved links from karakeep/linkwarden/hamster.io and show them first before feeding the search terms to google/bing/whatever" extension for your browser?

[-] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks everyone for your many replies! Week start out with wallabag and see where it will lead me.

this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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