wallabag

wallabag

About this app

wallabag is a self hosted read-it-later app. Unlike to other services, wallabag is free and open source. It's made for you to comfortably read and archive your articles.

You can download wallabag on wallabag.org and follow the instructions to install it on your own server, or you can directly sign up on wallabag.it

This android application allows you read and manage your articles and automatically syncs them to the wallabag server.

SAVE FOR LATER:
Next time you find an article you want to read later, save it into wallabag. It will be automatically synced on your phone, your tablet, your e-reader or your computer. Therefore, your can read it anytime anywhere, even offline.

You can save an article into wallabag from nearly everywhere, including your computer and your favorite RSS reader apps.

A GREAT READING EXPERIENCE:

wallabag allows you to read articles inside a simple and pleasant view, without any distraction. You can customize wallabag depending on your reading style.

BONUS FEATURES:
* Automatic synchronization between the server and the apps
* Downloading pictures for offline reading
* Tags to manage your content
* Speech synthesis to listen to your articles

This application has been originally created by Jonathan GAULUPEAU and released under the GPL licence.
wallabag is a creation from Nicolas Lœuillet released under the MIT licence.

Ratings and reviews

Similar to Pocket, but you can (optionally) host your own server. Less polished, but it does the job: You can share a page/URL to the app and save it for later, and you can use the app to read articles you've saved. Including offline once you set the cache/sync options. Tagging, archiving, starring are all supported in the app. And you know your bookmarking choices aren't being fed into a recommendation algorithm.

If you want to use it free, you must have your own web server. That said, I logged onto my admin account for domain, and there was already a wallabag plug-in available. It was a little tricky to figure out what wallabag was asking for, but the app populates everything automatically, and after going back and forth copying and pasting data, it works great. I just wish it would save an entire webpage for offline viewing. It only saves small amounts of some pages.

Terrible ui, everytime I delete an article both the app and the webbrowser jump back to the first page. Which is not very handy of you have 3000 articles and you want to shift through them. Another issue is that some pages that were displayed in pocket do not display here, and wikipedia pages miss some sections. I know this app was created as a volunteer project, and I appreciate the effort, but I am going to instapaper navigating this app is too much stress for me.

What’s new

- Bump Gradle and Java toolchain versions
- Remove non-FLOSS Greendao plugin (responsible for exclusion from F-Droid)