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freeCandy
> We have a few product ideas we have experimented with that would be paid add-ons to the current service: collaborative tools, AI integration, translation tools, and premium text to speech voices.
totetsu
As for monetization, surely making the ios app paid would be palatable to most.
harerazer
> How much will it cost, what will the free version lose, what data of mine will be sold, etc?
It is open source, so you can run it yourself.
janandonly
It may “respect RSS” but I wish it would go much farther: I wish to import all my jRSS feeds into Omnivore.
Till the day this becomes possible, I’ll have to use NetNewsWire and Omnivore next to each other. And export and then import articles of interest. This is a PITA.
janandonly
Update. I am a blind idiot.
If you browse to https://omnivore.app/settings/feeds you can add RSS feeds.
Also, after importing most of my feeds I hit the maximum allowed number of feeds. I guess will need to start paying to be able to add more?
Unai
I just tried it both on Android and in the browser, and while it looks very nice for the price of nothing, there are two things that will probably make me not use it. In case it's of any use for any dev that might be reading: First issue would be no AMOLED option. Second issue is that I can't get it to remember where I left reading in an article; every time I go back to the article it auto-scrolls to a random part of it (happens in both app and browser).
dokov
I'm actually using the remarkable for this kind of functionality. Some article i want to read later --> Share with remarkable, you do need the remarkable cloud service for that work seamless though.
Maybe one could use this to circumvent the paid cloud service.
fishywang
I wrote a telegram bot (because share with remarkable does not work on mobile) to auto generated epub out of url and upload to remarkable cloud, until remarkable keep changing their cloud API and I finally cannot make uploading epub to their cloud work any more.
j45
Supernote running KOreader seems to be an alternative to remarkable less than remarkable cloud decisions
vongomben
Interesting. Did you share it?
codq
As someone who pays a yearly subscription for Readwise, I have a hard justifying that price when Omnivore excels at that core functionality entirely for free.
Matter is another paid read-it-later app who's lunch Omnivore is eating, though they seem to be shipping useful features (podcast transcript parsing, send-to-Kindle, etc.) much faster than Readwise.
Tough time to be a for-profit reading app these days, when options like Omnivore exist.
1123581321
Why do you pay for Readwise? They must offer something different.
codq
I wanted something more advanced than Pocket, which integrated with my Obsidian vault and had better highlighting features and voice, so it was a choice between Matter and Readwise Reader.
I went with Readwise because they were a bootstrapped company vs VC-funded Matter, but now I'm starting to wish I went with Matter because they've been shipping meaningful updates more reliably.
Also, I interviewer with Dan from Readwise and he totally ghosted me, so I may be a little bitter about that, ha.
1123581321
Haha. Thanks. I would find any slowdown in their releases post-ghost to be satisfying, personally.
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philips
Not OP but I pay for Readwise because it works and this volunteer effort funding model always makes me nervous.
sea-gold
Omnivore looks pretty good. I should try it out.
I've been using and paying for this: https://mymind.com/
I like it better than any of the many alternatives that I have tried/researched thus far.
janandonly
No matter how good it is, it has to compete with my safari “read it later” list and a folder with subfolders filled with my 15-year-and-going pdf collection.
Also at €11,99 it’s just too expensive, no matter if it can also dance.
ibizaman
I recommend everyone to try this app out. It’s just the best iOS app that allows offline read it later functionality and supports self-hosting the server! And highlights and notes work really well on iOS.
vongomben
I will definetly try this.
Question: how you all deal with the new reddit app not allowing to share the url of the article / link you end in?
Comparing to other reddit clients we all lost (I was using bacon reader, but it's the same with my hn client) the reddit app inside browser is not providing me the possibility to share the page I am visiting (normally the three dots in the top right corner)
How did you solve this problem?
johnchristopher
I am not sure I understand the problem but redreader opens articles in my browser of choice. There's also an menu item to copy article link.
yunohn
I’m able to copy links from the browser on both the iOS and android apps - they use your default underlying browser.
sunshinerag
Can you point the app to your own backend instance?
taberiand
I haven't tried but at a glance, at least with the Android app, yes.
See setSelfHostingDetails
https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/a20b956e26dc98...
vladvasiliu
I've just installed the iOS app, so can't tell if it actually works and how well. But when it asks you to connect, there's a link at the bottom of the screen saying "self-hosting options" which asks for "API Server base URL", "web server url" and "text-to-speech url".
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cincinnatus
Maybe my primary use case is too rare to get much love, but I'm still stuck on Instapaper because so far in a decade of alternatives nobody has quite hit the mark for me; I want to be able to go into my list of saved articles and create a reading list that is going to then be read to me. They should be read in the order in which I select them. It should be that straightforward. I don't need any fancy synchronization of on-screen text with the speech etc, the whole point is for me to be able to queue up a few things and go. Should take a couple seconds.
syncbehind
How does this compare to Raindrop.io?
phildenhoff
Raindrop is very good for storing bookmarks, Omnivore is pretty good at being a read-it-later app. You can annotate in Raindrop, but it's not very ergonomic, and I honestly don't even recall if it has a reader mode. I'm certainly not sure where how to turn it on on the web. Omnivore's reader is excellent and annotating documents works great.
FWIW, I use both services daily and maintain a plugin to import Raindrop annotations & highlights into Logseq. I enjoy using Omnivore for reading much more than Raindrop.
syncbehind
Oh great, this sounds like something I'd be interested in. I use logseq + raindrop. Omnivore seems to support that as well.
Thank you!
codq
Raindrop is primarily for saving and archiving links and websites, Omnivore is primarily for reading.
j45
This looks very nice, but self hosting requires reliance on google cloud.
https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25
My guess is it started as an app first and self-hosting was an afterthought.
It would be interesting to see how other node projects shim in support for other clouds (including locally hosted services in the docker image).
lxgr
Looks interesting!
I’ve been using Pocket less and less these days because I’m concerned about lock-in (both in terms of my data and the business model).
It’s a shame that Mozilla hasn’t managed to open-source Pocket in all these years. People that care about (and are capable of) self-hosting would probably gladly donate/contribute; people caring about the convenience paired with the brand name could just continue paying for the SaaS version.
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Sometimes, an app really is just as good as it looks, and that's all there is to it. I like it better than Pocket, better than Instapaper, respects RSS, integrates email newsletters, even lets you convert your google/apple login to an email login with a click. Even support for a private library of PDFs and EPubs! I seem to be having a little bit of trouble adding highlights to Epubs, but this is just about the perfect app.
So now, it's just a question of when the other shoe drops and they look at monetization. How much will it cost, what will the free version lose, what data of mine will be sold, etc? As long as its good enough and stays true to what appears to be its current vision, I can't see why I wouldn't pay for it, so it's just a matter of trusting that it will stay good over time.