The Omnivore alternative for people who do not want to self-host.

The power-reader with highlights that sync into Obsidian, Notion, and Readwise.

For the Omnivore user whose whole workflow was read, highlight, and push those highlights into Obsidian, Readwise Reader is the honest closest match. It handles articles, RSS, newsletters, PDFs, EPUBs, and YouTube with transcripts, has text-to-speech, a Ghostreader AI that summarizes and explains, semantic search, and - the part that matters here - a mature highlight layer that syncs automatically into Notion, Obsidian, and Readwise. If highlighting is the reason you are sad Omnivore is gone, this is the tool the Omnivore community most often migrated to. The catch is money and shape. There is no permanent free tier: it is bundled in Readwise Full at about $119.88/year after a 30-day trial, which is a real jump from Omnivore's free. And, like Omnivore, it is reading-shaped - it does not absorb a WhatsApp forward, a screenshot with OCR, or the mixed non-article pile most people also save.

A simple, cheaper read-later app positioned directly at Omnivore refugees.

Readplace is one of the newer read-later apps that leaned directly into the Omnivore shutdown, pitching itself as the simpler, cheaper hosted replacement at roughly $49/year. It keeps the parts most casual Omnivore users cared about - save an article, read it cleanly, highlight it - without asking you to run anything yourself. If your Omnivore use was mostly 'save articles, read them, highlight a few lines,' and Readwise's price and depth are more than you want, Readplace is a reasonable lighter landing spot. It is still an article-and-reading tool. It does not capture WhatsApp or Telegram forwards, run OCR on screenshots, or pull in TikToks and PDFs into one library, and there is no plain-language AI search or auto-categorization across a mixed pile. Confirm its current feature set and price before committing, since new apps in this category move fast.

The open-source, self-hostable read-later app - if owning your data is the point.

Omnivore was open source, and a chunk of its users chose it specifically because they could own and, if they wanted, self-host their reading. Wallabag is the natural home for that crowd: it is a mature, open-source read-later app you can self-host for free, with browser extensions, mobile apps, tagging, annotations, and full export. If data ownership and open source are non-negotiable, Wallabag is the most honest recommendation on this page - it is the one tool here you can run entirely yourself. The tradeoff is exactly the one MarkIt is built to remove: to get it free you run and maintain a server, and if you would rather not, the hosted wallabag.it plan is a small annual fee. It is also article-and-web focused - no WhatsApp/Telegram capture, no screenshot OCR, no AI auto-categorization or semantic search. Great for control; not the tool if you want zero maintenance and a mixed capture library.

Mature bookmark manager with collections and a reader mode.

Raindrop is the default recommendation when someone wants a real bookmark manager rather than a reader. It has been around since 2013, the apps are mature on every platform, the browser extension is good, and the free tier (unlimited bookmarks, basic search, reader mode) is genuinely useful. Its collections-and-tags model suits people who think in folders and want a hosted home for links and files they organize by hand - no server to run. The limits for an ex-Omnivore reader: it is a URL-and-file bookmark manager, not a highlighting reader. Its annotation layer is light, forwarding a WhatsApp screenshot does not work, there is no OCR, no AI auto-categorization, and search is keyword across titles and tags, not plain-language. Good for organizing links; not a like-for-like Omnivore reading replacement.

Free clipper that saves pages straight into your Obsidian vault as markdown.

For Omnivore users whose center of gravity was always Obsidian, the official Obsidian Web Clipper is a free way to save web pages directly into your vault as clean markdown you fully own, locally. Combined with Obsidian's own highlighting and linking, it recreates a chunk of the read-and-annotate loop without any subscription. If you already live in Obsidian and want your saves as local notes rather than in yet another app, this is the free, own-your-data route. But it is a clipper, not a read-later system: capture is browser-only (no WhatsApp/Telegram, no screenshot OCR, no TikTok/PDF pipeline), reading and organizing happen inside Obsidian and are on you to set up, and search is Obsidian's keyword search, not plain-language semantic search. It rewards people who want to build their own workflow, not people who want it done for them.