In the poche

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

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.

Working well for me with wallabag.it and accessing via android app. But I also installed using Softaculous on my web hosting service...the web version works but try as I might I can't get any of my three android devices to connect. Obviously a problem with my hosting, but I'm only a lay person, able to guess modifications to settings in the admin web page and in the android app, not logically arrive at a fix. Self hosting appealed so much!! :(

Counterpoint to all the one star reviews, I've been hosting my own Wallabag server for a few years and had no lasting problems. The app has had sync issues where certificates were not trusted (let'sencrypt) and the local cache had to be wiped but most of the issues people talk about are network/hosting and nothing to do with Wallabag, either end. Things can still be improved and I'd like to see soon are scrolling using the track area not just the screen but it's much the same as Pocket.

What's new

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