wallabag is a free and open-source application for saving web pages to read later. It fetches the text of an article, removes what surrounds it, and keeps it in an interface designed for reading.
Beginnings under the name poche
The project started in 2013, created by Nicolas Lœuillet under the name poche, as a self-hosted alternative to Pocket. The similar names quickly raised a trademark issue, and the project became wallabag in 2014. The wallaby stayed on as the mascot.
What it does
You save an article from a browser extension, a mobile app or the web interface. wallabag extracts the main content, then lets you organize it with tags, star it, mark it as read, annotate it and export it to EPUB or PDF.
The application exposes an API, which allowed the community to build clients for Android, iOS and some e-readers.
Open source and self-hostable
wallabag is released under the MIT license and written in PHP, with the Symfony framework. Anyone can install it on their own server. For those who would rather not deal with that, the paid service wallabag.it, opened in 2016, offers a hosted version.