Alternatives to MZLA Pocket?
Alternatives to MZLA Pocket?
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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?
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.
I use and self-host linkding
Thanks everyone for your many replies! Week start out with wallabag and see where it will lead me.
Here is a list
https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven't tried it yet
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)
For bookmarking: https://raindrop.io/
But it’s not self-hosted and I’m not sure it supports offline reading.
It's a downright dirty shame no devs have taken on Raindrop. It's a slick little app.
That sucks, I immediately wanted it. :(
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.
I love my LinkWarden instance. I haven't found it lacking for my needs, despite over 3000 links thus far
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?
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
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.
- 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
LinkWarden also saves various archival copies of sites (as well as it can with anti-robot measures anyways)
Thank you for the nice summary!
I really like https://karakeep.app/.
I have it plugged into a local Ollama instance for automatic tagging of articles.
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
I use my note taking app with a specific tag for "read later"
it's not perfect, but i've just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook