A read-it-later app built from a ten-year personal reading system. Save an article from a browser extension, the iPhone share sheet, an AI assistant like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, a bulk import of an old export file, or by pasting the link on this page — then read it in a clean reader view, with an AI TL;DR on every article to help you choose what is worth your time.

Do I need a credit card to start?

No. 14 days with the full product, no card. After that you choose how often you're billed, and every plan is the same full product: Monthly is $10 a month ($10 billed monthly), Yearly is $5 a month ($60 billed once a year), and Every 3 years is $3 a month ($108 billed once every 3 years). If you don't subscribe, nothing is charged and the account goes read-only.

What happens to my articles if I stop paying?

You keep reading every one of them. Saving new links and importing stop; the readlist and the reader stay, and you can still export a list of every article as JSON.

How do I get my readlist out?

Request an export from the account page, paying or not. You get one JSON file listing every article you saved — URL, title, site, excerpt, read status and dates — by an emailed link that works for 7 days. It does not include article text.

Can I bring my Pocket export?

Yes, and you can do it before making an account. Upload the file on the import page; the account comes at the end.

Is there a mobile app?

An iPhone app on the App Store that saves from the share sheet, and it runs on Mac too.

Does Readplace hallucinate text when extracting PDFs?

No. Tesseract OCR does the recognition deterministically, character by character, on the actual pixels of the page. DeepSeek is only allowed to restore structural markup — paragraphs, headings, lists — and a document-diff then rejects any word it tried to add or remove. The words you read are the words that were on the page.

Where does my data live?

Accounts and saved articles are stored on AWS in Sydney, under the Australian Privacy Act. Article text is sent to DeepSeek to write summaries. No data resale.

Fayner Brack is the Founder & CEO. Readplace has no venture capital, runs no ads and sells no data; revenue comes from subscriptions. The code is source-available on GitHub.

Save anything to read later. Read only what's worth it.

Readplace is a read-it-later app. Save any article, newsletter, or PDF in one click — from your browser, your phone, or an AI chat — and it opens on a clean page with the reading time and an AI TL;DR at the top, so forty saved links become the four worth reading tonight. Your copy stays readable even if the original goes down.

Free. No account. Articles and PDFs.

Every way to save.

Browser Extension: Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Brave One click. Full-page capture. Also, Ctrl/Cmd+D, or click to save ALL open tabs at once. Install for Chrome, Edge or Brave Install for Firefox
Your iPhone Open an article anywhere, tap Share , choose Readplace. The app is on the App Store, and it opens your saved copy with its one line summary and TL;DR without leaving the phone. Get the iPhone app
A file, or a page full of links Upload a Pocket, Instapaper, or bookmark export — anything text-shaped — or paste a newsletter or index URL, and Readplace pulls every link out for you to review. All of that works without an account, so you can watch Readplace extract the links first. Import your links
Your newsletters to your readlist Every account gets its own address at read.place, shaped like my-tech-newsletter@read.place or my-other-newsletter@read.place. Subscribe with your Readplace email, or forward an issue to it, and it automatically saves the article links out of the email. How that works

Readplace's PDF extraction doesn't hallucinate the way an LLM can — Tesseract reads the text off the pixels directly, up to 300 pages. How PDF extraction works

Or let your AI assistant do it.

Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to save the original sources of your research to readplace.com. Sign in once, and your assistant can save links to your readlist and read the list back inside the conversation — no extension, no app, no tab switch.

Connect your assistant

Save an article. Read it later.

The app works really well. It has really made it easier to save articles, and I haven't experienced any issues at all — it just works.

— Matthew Motz, early user

Fayner Brack is the Founder & CEO of Readplace. He wrote js-cookie, which browsers download about 1.5 billion times a month, and ran his own reading on Gmail filters and Reddit automations for ten years before turning it into Readplace. That decade showed the bottleneck was never saving. It was deciding what NOT to read.

Pocket was acquired and abandoned, Omnivore shut down overnight. Readplace is built in public, one feature at a time, and this page says what works today rather than promising what doesn't exist yet.

My personal promise to you

It will not grow social feeds, public collections, or silent browsing-history capture. Those apps grow daily active users by encouraging saving. Readplace is for reading what matters, not saving more.

— Fayner Brack, Founder & CEO

From $3 a month to pay running costs, and that's it!

Monthly

$10/month

$10 billed monthly
Most popular

Yearly

$5/month

$60 billed once a year
Every 3 years

$3/month

$108 billed once every 3 years

Google, Apple, or an email address — about twenty seconds. No card at any point in the 14 days.

Export a list of every article you saved, as JSON, anytime — even after you cancel.
Stop paying and the account goes read-only, not dark — every saved article stays readable.
No venture capital, no ads — revenue comes from subscriptions.
Hosted in Sydney under the Australian Privacy Act. No 3rd-party trackers, no data resale.

The code is source-available on GitHub — the branch that turns a cancelled account read-only, and the export route with no subscription gate, are there to read. No licence grants reuse rights.

Questions

What is Readplace?: A read-it-later app built from a ten-year personal reading system. Save an article from a browser extension, the iPhone share sheet, an AI assistant like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, a bulk import of an old export file, or by pasting the link on this page — then read it in a clean reader view, with an AI TL;DR on every article to help you choose what is worth your time.
Do I need a credit card to start?: No. 14 days with the full product, no card. After that you choose how often you're billed, and every plan is the same full product: Monthly is $10 a month ($10 billed monthly), Yearly is $5 a month ($60 billed once a year), and Every 3 years is $3 a month ($108 billed once every 3 years). If you don't subscribe, nothing is charged and the account goes read-only.
What happens to my articles if I stop paying?: You keep reading every one of them. Saving new links and importing stop; the readlist and the reader stay, and you can still export a list of every article as JSON.
How do I get my readlist out?: Request an export from the account page, paying or not. You get one JSON file listing every article you saved — URL, title, site, excerpt, read status and dates — by an emailed link that works for 7 days. It does not include article text.
Can I bring my Pocket export?: Yes, and you can do it before making an account. Upload the file on the import page; the account comes at the end.
Is there a mobile app?: An iPhone app on the App Store that saves from the share sheet, and it runs on Mac too.
Does Readplace hallucinate text when extracting PDFs?: No. Tesseract OCR does the recognition deterministically, character by character, on the actual pixels of the page. DeepSeek is only allowed to restore structural markup — paragraphs, headings, lists — and a document-diff then rejects any word it tried to add or remove. The words you read are the words that were on the page.
Where does my data live?: Accounts and saved articles are stored on AWS in Sydney, under the Australian Privacy Act. Article text is sent to DeepSeek to write summaries. No data resale.
Who runs Readplace?: Fayner Brack is the Founder & CEO. Readplace has no venture capital, runs no ads and sells no data; revenue comes from subscriptions. The code is source-available on GitHub.

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