Productivity/Read It Later

Wallabag

Self-hosted read-it-later app that strips ads and clutter from articles and syncs them for offline reading.

Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.

Community

100

Development

Maintenance

Risk

12,844 GitHub stars Last commit: 1 days ago Last release: 287 days ago Open issues: 769 License: MIT

Hardware

RAM minimum512 MB

RAM recommended2048 MB

CPU idle~0.1 cores

CPU recommended1-2 vCPU

ARM supportPartial

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes

OIDC support✗ No

LDAP support✗ No

Multi-user✓ Yes

Mobile appBoth

Operations

MaturityStable

Maintenance burdenMedium

Setup difficultyMedium

Backup methodDB dump (MySQL/Postgres/SQLite) + per-article export (ePub/PDF/JSON)

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyMedium

Replaces

InstapaperPocket

Relationships

Install via

Docker ComposeNative

Works well with

CaddyTraefik

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

SQLite works for personal use, so it doesn't force a database server the way Miniflux/Ghost do. Official ARM images are less battle-tested than amd64 — same caveat as Ghost. Offline sync in the official mobile apps is the actual selling point over building your own scraper.