Omphalis vs Omnivore
Omnivore was a serious read-it-later app: articles, PDFs, newsletters, highlights, notes. The hosted cloud app was deprecated in November 2024. The code is still on GitHub for people who want to run it themselves.
Omphalis is a different offer: a hosted product, not open source, and not Wallabag. The reason to try Omphalis is comprehension across formats you still care about, not a replacement server.
30-day trial, no card required. Includes 200 voice minutes, 200 PDF pages and 15 assistant answers a day. After that, Free stays free. See plan allowances.
Disclosure: this comparison is written by Omphalis about its own product, so it is not a neutral review. We are not paid by Omnivore or by anyone else to be compared favourably, this page carries no affiliate links, and every claim about Omnivore is checked against their own public documentation. Read the full disclosures, and tell us if something here has gone out of date.
Checked September 11, 2026 against Omnivore's GitHub repository. Our suggestions about fit are our judgment.
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| Compared on | Omnivore | Omphalis |
|---|---|---|
| Sources supported | Articles, PDFs and newsletters. | Articles, PDFs, EPUBs, Word docs, YouTube talks and podcasts. |
| Highlights and notes | Highlights, notes and labels. | A note left on the passage, beside the source. |
| Returning to a passage | The hosted app saved your place. People who still run Omnivore do so on their own servers. | Each source becomes a page with sections to navigate by. |
| Pricing model | Open source and self-hosted. The hosted cloud app was deprecated in November 2024. | Hosted and not open source. Free plan, and paid plans from $9 a month, with a 30-day trial, no card required (200 voice minutes, 200 PDF pages and 15 assistant answers a day). |
Omnivore was a read-it-later app for people who like text: articles, PDFs, newsletters, labels, highlights and notes. The hosted cloud app was deprecated in November 2024.
Bring in an article, a PDF, an EPUB, a Word doc, a YouTube talk or a podcast. Each one becomes a page you can read or listen to, with sections to navigate by.
The hosted app saved your place, supported highlighting, and offered text-to-speech on iOS. The hosted Omnivore app is gone, and people who still run Omnivore do so on their own servers.
Read the extracted text with help beside a difficult passage. Open Learn more on a phrase you choose, ask a question while the source stays in view, or listen to a narrated version of the piece.
The codebase remains open source. If your requirement is to host the reader on your own machines, that is still Omnivore's project, or a different open-source tool such as Wallabag.
Omphalis is a hosted product, not open source, not a self-hosted Omnivore fork, and not Wallabag. Try Omphalis if you want reading help without operating a server.
Omnivore users often saved PDFs alongside articles. In this Omphalis example, an explanation opens next to the abstract of Attention Is All You Need.
The same library can hold a video. In this Omphalis example, a Grant Sanderson talk is open as a timestamped transcript, with an explanation on a passage.
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If you want the software on machines you control, Omnivore's GitHub project is still there. Wallabag is the other common open-source read-later. Omphalis does not compete on that axis.
Omnivore on GitHub →If you used the hosted app and still have a paper, a newsletter or a talk to finish, try one source here. Read it, open an explanation, leave a note. Do not wait on a whole-library move.
See the Omphalis reading workflow →Start with one source you already know. Testing one familiar source is fairer than comparing feature lists from a product that no longer runs in the cloud.
Also compare Omphalis with Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Glasp, Readwise, Heptabase, NotebookLM, Snipd, LiquidText, MarginNote, Elicit, Mindgrasp, Eightify or Recall.
The team joined ElevenLabs in 2024 and deprecated the hosted cloud app in November of that year. The GitHub project remains, and describes itself as a self-hosted application.
No. Omphalis is hosted software. If you want to run a read-it-later server yourself, look at Omnivore's GitHub project or Wallabag. This comparison is for people who used the hosted Omnivore app and still have material to finish.
Start with one source you still have: an article, a PDF, a talk. We are not advertising a bulk move of a whole Omnivore library on this page.