Bookmarks & Web Archiving · Reviewed 22 Oct 2026

wallabag.it

Hosted read-it-later service with offline apps and data export.

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wallabag.it at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

wallabag.it is a hosted read-it-later service that saves full web articles for distraction-free reading later S1. It serves individuals who want to save articles from the browser and read them on mobile, tablet, or e-reader, including offline S1. The service provides a practical alternative to Pocket and Instapaper with European hosting, open-source software, and data export anytime S1.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: wallabag.it is a hosted read-it-later service, part of the open-source wallabag project S117.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of saving web articles for later reading without distraction S1.
  • Intended users: Individuals who regularly read online and want to manage their reading list across devices S1.
  • Product scope: It is a hosted service, not a self-hosted app, offering article saving, organization, search, import, export, and synchronization S117.
  • Positioning: The vendor positions it as a privacy-first, ad-free alternative to Pocket, Instapaper, and Pinboard S1.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims open-source software, European hosting, and easy data export as differentiators S1.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Regular readersSave articles from the browser and read them later on mobile or e-reader, including offline S1.
Privacy-conscious usersUse a service that is ad-free and hosted in Europe, with data export anytime S1.
Users switching from other servicesImport reading list from Pocket or other services and continue reading S4.
E-reader usersUse community apps to bring saved articles to Kobo and PocketBook e-readers S25.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Distraction-free readingProvides a clean, comfortable reading view for saved articles S19.
Offline mobile appsAndroid and iOS apps sync your account and allow reading downloaded articles offline S25.
Browser extensionsFirefox and Chrome add-ons save articles in one click S60.
Organization toolsTags, search, favourites, and annotations keep your library useful S1.
Data import and exportImport reading lists from other services and export articles, tags, and annotations anytime S1.
Export formatsExport to PDF, ePUB, mobi, JSON, CSV, txt, or HTML S112.
Private feedsPublish saved articles as private feeds (unread, starred, archived, or by tag) for your feed reader S4.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
Android appMobile appSyncs your account and allows offline reading of saved articles S25.
iOS appMobile appProvides a wallabag client for iOS devices S19.
Firefox add-onBrowser extensionSaves articles to wallabag in one click S19.
Chrome extensionBrowser extensionArchives new articles in one click S60.
FrigoligoCommunity clientAn alternative wallabag client for mobile, available on Google Play and the App Store S25.
GNOME appDesktop appA native app for desktop or Linux phone S25.
Kobo and PocketBook appsCommunity integrationBrings wallabag articles to e-readers S25.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
3 months4 € one payment for 3 months, no auto-renewal S4All features S4Not established
1 year11 € billed yearly, no auto-renewal S4All features S4Not established
Support subscription30 € billed yearly, no auto-renewal S4Same service, extra support for the project S4Not established
Free trial14 days free, no credit card required S4All features S4No limitation S4

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
bbb.org318wallabaga
wallabag.org111wallabag
faire.com111wallabaga
github.com112wallabag
amazon.com112wallabaga
facebook.com113wallabaga
play.google.com114wallabag
instagram.com114wallabaga
apps.apple.com115wallabag
wallabygoods.com115wallabaga

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.6%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordVolume 140 · https://app.wallabag.it/
Important pagehttps://app.wallabag.it/ · 1 sampled keywords · best position 17
Competitor gap3 first-page appearances across wallabaga

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
KvibberWallabag - ReviewGrounded web searchSetup is a bit clunky, even using the hosted service at wallabag.it, and it’s not quite as good as Pocket at extracting the content of an article. This varies according to site, of course. Sites like this one that just show you the article will work better than sites that break into the middle with a 12-image carousel and a “sign up to read
The AutodidactsWallabag wins, despite its flaws — The AutodidactsGrounded web search1. The Wallabag.it article extractor failed for 1,108 of 3,947 articles. In practice, this is not super relevant, because ~608 were still unread in Pocket, which means they failed to extract and send to Kobo. Of the remaining ~500, I saw a lot of dead URLs (feedproxy.google.com et cetera), which aren’t Wallabag’s fault. I also discovered that while adding a URL directly fails for some sites that worked with Pocket (such as www.mrmoneymustache.com), the Wallabagger extension can extract their con

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • custom site configs if using wallabag.it? · wallabag/wallabag · Discussion #7952 · GitHub — Is it possible to define custom site configs if I'm using wallabag.it, or does it have to be a self-hosted version? ## Replies: 1 comment j0k3r You can't on wallabag.it. You must have a self hosted version.
  • Redesigning the Wallabag interface · wallabag/wallabag · Discussion #8467 · GitHub — After using Wallabag extensively, I realised that the interface could be improved. Based on my experience, I would like to suggest a few ideas. During the design phase, I kept in mind that I only wanted to modify the user interface (or a few user flows), but I didn't want to add too many new features. ## My approach ... 1. Redefine the site map 2. Benchmark (not in that post) 3. List improvements to the UX based on my usage (not in that post) 4. Design a few main interfaces ... Feel free to comm
  • wallabag/wallabag — wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading. Click, save and read it when you want. It extracts content so that you won't be distracted by pop-ups and cie. ... your own server, or you can create an account on
  • Trying out KOReader and Wallabag (the first few days and months) - Getting excited about reading again · Hook’s Humble Homepage — stores Wallabag articles as ePUB in a separate folder and syncs (in both ... with the Wallabag server. Treating articles as any other book on the device has some benefits, like annotation support (more on that later) and being able to modify styles etc.
  • wallabag - Apps on Google Play — . It was a little tricky to figure out what wallabag was asking for, but the app populates everything automatically, and ... data, it works great. I just wish it would save an entire webpage for offline viewing. It only saves small amounts of some pages

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipFrigoligo is an alternative wallabag client for people who prefer a different mobile experience. It is part of the wider wallabag ecosystem and can connect to your wallabag.it account.source
Contact and supportAndroid ou iOS : il y a forcément une appli pour votre téléphone ! C’est tellement facile de lire vos articles dessus. Ça fonctionne également même hors connexion.source
Legal and privacyHosted in Europe, GDPR compliantsource
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status page/ Security, abuse prevention and maintenance / Logs, IP address, user-agent, technical events / Legitimate interest / Up to 12 months, unless longer retention is needed to handle an incident /source

Not found on the collected pages: security and compliance. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
wallabag.it — Save & read your articles later · alternative to Pocket, Instapaper & PinboardGuideSave web articles and read them later on your phone, tablet or e-reader. wallabag.it is the open-source, privacy-first read-it-later service hosted in Europe — a simple alternative to Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard. Start a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. (source)Not dated
Pricing — save & read your articles from 11€ a year / wallabag.itGuidewallabag.it plans: 3 months for 4€, one year for 11€ or the supporter plan for 30€. Premium features included: save by email, imports, RSS feeds. 14-day free trial, no credit card required. (source)Not dated
Releases / wallabag.itRelease notesRelease notes and feature updates for wallabag.it and the wallabag ecosystem. (source)Not dated
wallabag.it — Enregistrez et lisez vos articles · alternative à Pocket, Instapaper et PinboardGuideEnregistrez vos articles web et lisez-les plus tard sur votre téléphone, tablette ou liseuse. wallabag.it est le service open-source de lecture différée, respectueux de la vie privée et hébergé en Europe — une alternative à Pocket, Instapaper et Pinboard. Essai gratuit de 14 jours, sans carte bancaire. (source)Not dated
Releases / wallabag.itChangelogPublic product change history. (source)June 2022

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Hosted service providing access to a hosted instance of wallabag software S117.S117
Platforms and appsAndroid and iOS apps, Firefox and Chrome extensions, and community apps for desktop and e-readers S25.S25
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Not published on the collected pages.—
Data ownership and exportUsers can export articles and data in PDF, ePUB, mobi, JSON, CSV, txt, or HTML S112.S112
Performance and reliability claimsUses reasonable efforts to ensure service availability S117.S117
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2016-11-08 — web archive
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-12-22
Security headersHSTS
Headers not servedCSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerNetlify
Mail handled bymta-gw.infomaniak.ch
Nameserversns42.infomaniak.com, ns41.infomaniak.com

Not measurable: rdap: no RDAP server published for .it. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 1 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 83/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 3
  • Notices: 1

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningMissing meta description—https://wallabag.it/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://wallabag.it/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://wallabag.it/
noticeLow visible word count1https://wallabag.it/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200https://wallabag.it/en/01145 mshttps://wallabag.it/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct40.5%
search33.6%
search organic32.0%
search paid1.6%
social6.2%
social organic5.5%
social paid0.7%
referrals10.5%
paid referrals2.9%
mail2.9%
gen ai1.6%
affiliate1.9%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages compare wallabag.it with Instapaper, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Readwise Reader, noting that Instapaper is expensive, Raindrop.io is bookmark-oriented, Pinboard lacks a reading view, and Readwise Reader stores data in the US S22. Evidence gaps include no documented API, no uptime status page, and no independent review ratings. Open questions remain about scalability and performance under heavy use.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 13 of 15 collected pages from wallabag.it, including pricing, features, applications, legal, and blog pages. The collector used static and browser rendering rendering; external proof search was enabled but only one web search was performed. Limitations: no independent review sites were scraped, and some pages (e.g., blog posts) may not have been fully captured.

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