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Indie Reading tools

21 reading products built by independent developers and small teams.

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Anybox

Bookmark manager for Mac and iOS

A native bookmark and link manager for Apple devices with collections, tags, smart filters and quick search.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

calibre

Free e-book manager, converter and reader

calibre is an open-source app for organizing an e-book library, converting between formats, editing e-books and syncing them to e-readers.

Free · Windows, Mac, Linux · Website ↗

Feedbin

Web-based RSS reader that also follows newsletters

Feedbin is a hosted feed reader for RSS, email newsletters and other sources, with an API used by many third-party reader apps.

Paid · Web, API · Website ↗

Feedly

RSS reader and AI-powered news tracking

A news aggregator for following RSS feeds, blogs and newsletters, with AI features for tracking topics.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android · Website ↗

Fluent Reader

Modern open-source desktop RSS reader

A free, open-source desktop RSS reader with a clean design that can sync with services like Inoreader and Miniflux.

Free · Mac, Windows, Linux · Website ↗

FreshRSS

Free, self-hosted RSS aggregator

A free, open-source RSS and Atom feed aggregator you host yourself, with multi-user support and API access for mobile apps.

Free · Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

Glasp

Social web highlighter and YouTube summaries

A browser extension for highlighting and annotating web pages, saving highlights, and generating YouTube video summaries.

Free plan · Web, Browser extension · Website ↗

Inoreader

Content reader for RSS, newsletters and social feeds

An RSS reader and news aggregator with rules, filters, search, newsletters and monitoring feeds for power users.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android · Website ↗

Instapaper

Save web articles to read later

A read-later service that saves articles in a clean, distraction-free view for reading on any device, with highlights and notes.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension · Website ↗

Karakeep

Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with AI tagging

An open-source app (formerly Hoarder) for saving links, notes and images with automatic AI tagging and full-text search, designed for self-hosting.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension, Self-hosted · Website ↗

linkding

Minimal self-hosted bookmark manager

A lightweight, open-source bookmark manager to self-host with tags, search, archiving and browser extensions.

Free · Web, Self-hosted, Browser extension · Website ↗

Matter

Read-later app with text-to-speech and highlights

A reading app for saving articles and newsletters with natural-sounding text-to-speech, highlights and exports to note apps.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension · Website ↗

Miniflux

Minimalist, open-source RSS reader

Miniflux is a lightweight, self-hostable feed reader with a fast, no-frills web interface; a hosted version is also available.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

NetNewsWire

Free, open-source RSS reader for Mac and iOS

NetNewsWire is a free, open-source feed reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad that syncs with iCloud, Feedbin and other services.

Free · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

NewsBlur

Personal news reader with training filters

An open-source RSS reader that shows the original site view and lets you train it to highlight or hide stories.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android · Website ↗

Okular

KDE's universal document viewer

An open-source document viewer from KDE for PDF, EPUB, comic books and more, with annotations and form filling.

Free · Linux, Windows · Website ↗

Readwise Reader

Read-later app for articles, PDFs, newsletters and RSS

A reading app that collects web articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS feeds and YouTube transcripts in one place with highlighting and AI summaries.

Paid · Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Browser extension · Website ↗

Reeder

RSS and read-later app for Apple devices

Reeder is a feed reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad that follows RSS feeds and other sources in a clean, unified timeline.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

SumatraPDF

Lightweight, open-source PDF and ebook reader for Windows

A small, fast, open-source reader for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, XPS, DjVu and comic book files on Windows.

Free · Windows · Website ↗

wallabag

Open-source read-later app to save web articles

wallabag saves web articles in a clean reading view so you can read them later, self-hosted or via the hosted wallabag.it service.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, iOS, Android, Browser extension · Website ↗

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