If you mostly collect: links, notes and images with a full copy of every page and search across all of it.
29,960 stars on GitHub Latest commit on October 24, 2026Readeck instead of Pocket
Pocket shut down in July 2025. Here you keep reading later — without the list belonging to someone else, and without saved pages vanishing when the source goes offline.
about €2.80 / month All the pricing details
What you get out of it
Saved pages stay readable even when the original disappears
No service that shuts down overnight and takes your list with it
Reading mode without ads and without trackers
Pocket and Podless
| Pocket and Podless | On Podless | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | PocketOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | PocketNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | PocketPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | PocketUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | PocketAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | PocketYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Bringing your data over from Pocket
If you exported your list from Pocket, Readeck and Karakeep both read the file directly.
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