Free and privacy-friendly web services

Wallabag

Free read-it-later service for saving, organizing and rereading web articles in a more comfortable, calmer and more focused interface.

Overview

Wallabag lets you save a web page to read later in better conditions. It extracts the main content of the article and displays it in a more pleasant reading view, without depending on the often heavy layout, visual clutter or distractions of the original site.

It is a good fit if you read a lot of articles, blog posts or online resources and want to find them again more easily than in a pile of open tabs, scattered bookmarks or links saved "for later". It gives you a more deliberate reading space and a cleaner long-term archive than the browser alone usually provides.

Quick facts

Service URLread.hostux.net
Service typeRead-it-later and article archiving
Free software usedWallabag
Software typeSelf-hostable read-it-later application
Project websitewallabag.org
Source codegithub.com/wallabag/wallabag
Account requiredYes

Why use Wallabag

  • Save an article to read it later in better conditions and at your own pace.
  • Create a personal reading library that is clearer than a collection of tabs or bookmarks.
  • Find content again in a view that is more readable, calmer and more focused on the text.
  • Organize, archive and retrieve useful resources more easily over time.
  • Use a free tool to manage online reading, monitoring and long-form resources.

Main features

  • Save web articles and extract the main content for a cleaner reading view.
  • Classify entries by reading status, favorites and archive state.
  • Add tags, annotations and share saved articles when needed.
  • Export in several formats to keep or reread content elsewhere.
  • Access through the web interface, mobile apps and browser extensions depending on the available tools.
  • Mobile apps to find and read saved articles again from a phone or tablet.

How the service works

  • You save a URL in Wallabag, which then retrieves the article content.
  • The service displays a cleaner reading version focused on text and essential media.
  • Articles can be marked as read, favorited, annotated, shared or exported.
  • Over time, your saved entries become a searchable reading queue and archive rather than a temporary pile of tabs.
  • Wallabag can also fit into a broader reading and monitoring workflow through apps, extensions and some compatible RSS readers.

Use cases

  • Keep technical, long-form or monitoring articles for later.
  • Prepare a calmer reading session away from the original website and its distractions.
  • Archive useful resources for personal, professional or community use.
  • Create a cleaner reading queue than a pile of open tabs or scattered bookmarks.
  • Replace more closed read-it-later services with a free self-hosted solution.

Mobile apps and extensions

Wallabag can be used with official or compatible mobile apps and browser extensions. In the clients, set the server address to https://read.hostux.net to connect them to the Hostux instance.

Access the service

Service: read.hostux.net

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