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omnivore

by omnivore-app

Omnivore is a self-hosted read-it-later app for saving articles, newsletters, PDFs and RSS feeds in one place. You can highlight, annotate and search what you save, and read it on the web, iOS or Android.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
16.4k +3 a day
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Technical
Language
TypeScript
Age
1726 days

What you can do with it

  • Save web articles, PDFs and email newsletters to a personal reading library
  • Highlight, annotate, label and search saved content, with sync to Logseq or Obsidian
  • Subscribe to RSS feeds and read them alongside saved articles

Make money with it

Someone could run a curated reading list or research newsletter, using Omnivore to collect and highlight sources before writing it up.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Collect and annotate industry articles and newsletters in one searchable place for market research, instead of paying for a reading subscription
  • Keep a shared reference library of source material for client work, hosted on your own server so you control the data

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

You run it on your own server using Docker Compose, following the self-hosting guide in the repository, which also needs Postgres and a Chromium-based page fetcher.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • The hosted cloud service was shut down in November 2024, so you must host it yourself
  • Licensed under AGPL-3.0, which has obligations if you offer it as a service to others
  • Self-hosting is fairly involved and relies on community upkeep
  • Text to speech is iOS only

Checked 03 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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