Wallabag
Wallabag, formerly Poche, is a web application allowing you to save articles to read them later with improved readability.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 76% of tracked projects; popularity more than 82%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 13k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.6.14 · 7 Oct 2025 |
| Repo updated | 21 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Wallabag actively maintained?
Wallabag is under active development: 835 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 69 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, 2.6.14, is about 12 months old.
Wallabag ranks #8 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Wallabag actually does
Wallabag is a self-hosted read-it-later application that fetches web pages and strips away clutter to provide a clean reading interface. It falls under archiving and digital preservation by letting you retain local copies of online content for future access.
Best fit: It suits users who want to store offline copies of web articles rather than relying on commercial third-party bookmarking services.
Worth knowing: You will need to maintain your own instance and manage updates, and it competes with mature, well-known alternatives like Pocket or browser-native reading modes.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server like Nginx or Apache, a separate database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and persistent storage for any cached assets.
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