Readplace is a read-it-later app built from a 10-year personal reading system. Save an article from the Firefox or Chrome browser extension, the iPhone share sheet, an AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude, a bulk import of your old export file, or by pasting the link straight on readplace.com — then read it in a clean reader view with a TL;DR summary.

Readplace has a 14-day free trial and does not ask for a credit card to start it. After the trial it is $4.08/month ($49/year), including TL;DR summaries. If you don't subscribe, nothing is charged and your account goes read-only — you keep reading every article you saved.

What happened to Pocket and Omnivore?

Pocket was acquired by Mozilla and shut down on July 8, 2025. Omnivore was acqui-hired by ElevenLabs and shut down in November 2024. Readplace was built as a reliable alternative, with an 'Even If You Cancel' promise — your data is always exportable.

What features does Readplace have?

Readplace saves from browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, an iPhone app on the App Store that saves from the share sheet, an MCP server that lets ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini save links and read your queue back, a link pasted on the homepage, and a bulk import of bookmark or Pocket export files that works before you make an account. Every account also gets a per-newsletter forwarding address, so newsletters land in Readplace with their article links pulled out. It also has a web app for managing saved articles, a distraction-free reader view, TL;DR summaries, real Tesseract OCR for PDFs, dark mode, and secure OAuth with PKCE. Planned features include a 'what to read next' view that sorts and filters your unread pile, and listening to saved articles as audio.

What does the $4.08/month subscription pay for?

Each saved article runs through a pipeline: Mozilla Readability parses the page (free, open source); real Tesseract OCR runs locally on Lambda to extract text from multi-page scanned PDFs — pixel-level character recognition, not an LLM "reading" the image, so it never hallucinates — up to 300 pages and 500 MB per file (free, open source); and DeepSeek V4 writes the TL;DR, disambiguates the canonical URL when an extension capture and a link submission point at the same article, and cleans up Tesseract's OCR output for structure only (paragraphs, headings, lists) before a deterministic document-diff review rejects any token the LLM tried to add or remove, so no hallucinated words ever reach you. The $4.08/month covers the infrastructure cost and crawler maintenance. There is no ad path, no data resale, and no third-party tracking.

Does Readplace hallucinate text when extracting PDFs?

No. Readplace prioritises correctness over hallucination — no AI generated slop in your PDFs. 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) on top of the OCR output, and a document-diff review then rejects any token the LLM tried to add or remove. The words you read are the words on the page. Other read-it-later apps that 'use AI for PDFs' typically feed the image to a multimodal LLM and accept whatever it returns, which can silently substitute, summarise, or invent text — that is the AI generated slop we refuse to ship.

Read the Web, not the Slop.

Paste any article link. Get a clean reader view with a TL;DR summary — articles or PDFs, in seconds. No signup. No download. Try it with that one article you've been meaning to read.

Free. No account. Works with any article.

A home for articles, newsletters, essays, longreads, news, blogs, stories, posts, reports, and interviews.

Pocket is gone. Omnivore is gone. I built Readplace from a personal system I've maintained for 10 years. Save from wherever you already read — browser, iPhone, AI chat, or a link pasted right here — and read when you're ready.

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Firefox, Chrome, iPhone, and your AI assistant.

Every way to save

Every way to save.

The button above installs a browser extension. That is one door in, not the only one — everything below is shipped and working today.

Paste a link on this page It opens in the reader with a TL;DR in seconds — an article or a PDF, no account and nothing to install. Save it from there and it goes to your queue; that is the point where I ask for an account. Try it now
Chrome, Edge, or Brave One click, Ctrl/Cmd+D, or right-click. The extension saves the page as it renders in front of you, so sites that turn crawlers away still come across whole. Install for Chrome
Firefox The same one click, the same full-page capture. The Firefox build is a signed download from this site rather than addons.mozilla.org. Install for Firefox
Your iPhone Open a page in any browser, tap Share, choose Readplace. The app is on the App Store, and it opens your saved copy with its TL;DR without leaving the phone. Get the iPhone app
ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini Readplace runs an MCP server. Paste one URL into your assistant's connector settings, sign in once, and it can save links to your queue and read the list back inside the conversation. Connect your assistant
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 logged out; the account is asked for when you save the selection. Import your links
Your newsletters Every account gets its own address at read.place, shaped like netflix-a7b2c9@read.place. Subscribe with it, or forward an issue to it, and Readplace saves the article links out of the email. You can hold up to 25, one per newsletter. How that works
A save button on your own site If you publish, the snippet is a plain link — under 1 KB, no JavaScript, no tracking — that puts your article in a reader's queue in one click. Get the snippet

A PDF link works anywhere an article link does — Tesseract reads it off the pixels, up to 300 pages. If an export is too big for the importer, email the file to readplace+migrate@readplace.com and I import it by hand within 24 to 48 hours.

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

I believe we can fix the web

Hi, I'm Fayner Brack. You might know me as the creator of js-cookie, a JavaScript library with over 22 billion downloads per year on jsDelivr (the tiniest most consumed browser library in the entire world).

Yes, I've been building for the web for a long time. I also read and share a lot of writing across the web[1].

For ten years I ran my own reading on Gmail filters, DynamoDB tables, and a stack of Reddit automations. That pipeline taught me the bottleneck was never saving. It was deciding what NOT to read.

^{1: As of June 2026, around 350k Reddit karma over 11,850 submissions, and 15k on HN over 2,700, all within the decade since 2016. On average I read 40% of what I find, and I share 60% to 70% of what I read. That figure has changed over time, with more links coming in and better curation.}

Last year, when Pocket was acquired and then abandoned, and Omnivore shut down overnight, I realised the tool I needed didn't exist as a product anyone could use. So I'm turning my personal system into Readplace — built in Australia, one feature at a time.

This is a solo project. I'm building it in public, and I'd rather be honest about what works today than promise features that don't exist yet.

I am the only person working on Readplace, using my 20 years of engineering experience to push AI-assisted coding to its limits while keeping readplace a place where you read the web, not the slop. The code is on GitHub. The infrastructure is in Sydney under Australian privacy law. If Readplace ever shuts down, your data exports to JSON, and the codebase is forkable — you can self-host the same software the day after. I cannot promise I’ll succeed, but I can promise that if I don’t, you won’t lose your data.

Save an article. Read it later.

Desktop

Browser Extension

What works today.

These features are shipped and working right now. Set up Readplace in your browser, on your iPhone, or in your AI assistant and try them.

TL;DR Summaries

Every saved article gets a TL;DR outlining the most important points. Built on the same AI that powers the reading experience.

PDF Extraction with Real OCR

Save any PDF link. Real Tesseract OCR turns it into a clean, readable article with a TL;DR — scanned pages included.

Save the Full Page

Save any page with one click, Ctrl/Cmd+D, or right-click — or straight from your iPhone's share sheet. The extension and app capture the full rendered page, picking the most complete version of the content over what a URL-only crawl would see. Available for Firefox and Chrome, and on iPhone.

See the ways to save

Connect Your AI Assistant

Readplace runs an MCP server, so ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI assistants can save links to your queue and read your list back — right inside the conversation. One OAuth login and your assistant does the rest.

How to connect

Links Import

Upload bookmarks, notes, newsletters — any text-shaped export — or paste a newsletter or index URL, and Readplace pulls every link out for you to review before saving. No account needed until you save.

Privacy First

Hosted in Sydney. Australian Privacy Act compliant. No third-party tracking, no ads.

Same article, different versions?

When you save from the browser extension or the iPhone app, Readplace captures the rendered page you’re looking at. When a link arrives as a URL — pasted here, sent by your AI assistant, or picked up in an import — Readplace fetches it server-side. DeepSeek does the canonical disambiguation so both paths converge on the same article — even when the source URL is wrapped in a tracker (utm_*, gclid).

Extension or iPhone rendered page

Pasted or shared URL server-side fetch

DeepSeek canonical disambiguation

One article trackers stripped

The captured version wins when both exist, as long as it’s the most complete version of the content. If you saved from the extension or the iPhone app while logged in to a site, you captured the full article — saving again when logged out won’t overwrite it with the paywalled version. Most read-later apps replace the captured version with whatever the canonical URL returns; Readplace keeps the most complete one.

What's Next

Share to Save on Android Save to Readplace from any Android app with one tap from the share sheet — the iPhone app already does this today.

What to Read Next Sort and filter your unread pile by recently saved, reading time, and tags, so the time you have goes to what matters most.

Listen to Articles Play any saved article as audio — for the commute, the walk, or doing chores.

Readplace vs the Read-It-Later Alternatives

	Readplace	Readwise Reader	Instapaper	Raindrop.io	Karakeep
Price	$49/yr	$119.88/yr	Free / $59.99/yr	Free / $28/yr	Free self-host / $40/yr
AI Features	TL;DR summary + page capture	Ghostreader AI	Summaries	AI assistant (Pro)	Tagging + summaries
PDF Text Extraction	300 pages / 500 MB — Tesseract OCR	No OCR — needs text layer	Premium only — no OCR	Pro upload — no OCR	50 MB — no PDF OCR
Open Source	Source-available	No	No	Clients only (MIT)	Yes
Platforms	Web, iPhone, Mac, AI assistants (MCP), Extensions: Firefox, Chrome	Web, iOS, Android, Desktop, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari	Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Kindle/Kobo, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox	Web, iOS, Android, Desktop, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari	Web, iOS, Android, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari

What Readplace will NOT become.

Readplace will not add:

Nested folder hierarchies
Social feeds or public collections
Secret browsing-history capture
Recommendation algorithms to simulate social media

Those features grow daily active users by encouraging saving. Readplace is to encourage reading what matters to you.

And that's why I need your help!

What $4.08 a month pays for.

Every saved article runs through this pipeline:

Mozilla Readability — parses the page.
Real Tesseract OCR — up to 300 pages / 500 MB. Pixel-level recognition, not an LLM guessing at an image.
DeepSeek V4 — writes the TL;DR and restores OCR structure. A document-diff blocks any word it tries to add or remove.

No AI generated slop — correctness over hallucination. Tesseract reads the page character by character; the LLM only restores structure, gated by a document-diff. What you read is what was on the page.

$4.08/month covers infrastructure and crawler maintenance. No ads, no data resale, no VC bridge. This is the whole business.

Price-check the providers: DeepSeek pricing. Tesseract runs in AWS Lambda on a per-request basis.

Don’t miss out!

14-day free trial

Readplace Membership

$4.08/month

Try everything free for 14 days. No credit card required to start.

Save unlimited articles
Save from your browser, iPhone, or AI assistant
TL;DR summaries included
PDF extraction with Tesseract OCR
All features as they ship
Direct access to the developer

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A Pocket alternative that respects your privacy.

Every read-it-later app that shut down left users scrambling. Readplace is built differently — starting with your right to leave.

"Even If You Cancel" Promise

Export everything, anytime. Your data is yours. Cancel and your saved articles stay available for export as JSON.

Source-available on GitHub

The whole codebase is on GitHub. If I ever shut Readplace down, you can fork the repo and self-host the same software the day after.

Hosted in Sydney, Australia

Infrastructure sits under the Australian Privacy Act. No third-party tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics inside the app.

I'm building this in public.

Try it whichever way suits you, then tell me what to build next. Readplace gets better with every user who shows up and says what they need.

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