Omnivore was acquired by ElevenLabs and shut down in November 2024. See what it offered, why it closed, and the best read-it-later alternatives in 2026.
Omnivore was a free, open-source read-it-later app founded around 2021 and based in San Francisco. It offered a clean reading experience for articles, newsletters and PDFs across web, iOS, Android and browser extensions, with highlighting, notes, full-text search and integrations into tools like Obsidian and Logseq.
Omnivore is no longer an operating product. ElevenLabs, the AI voice company, acquired Omnivore on November 1, 2024, primarily to bring on its engineering team, and the Omnivore service was shut down on November 15, 2024. All user data was subsequently deleted after an extended export window ending November 30, 2024.
While active, Omnivore supported saving content via browser extension, mobile app, or email forwarding, offline reading, highlighting and note-taking, full-text search across saved articles, a clean reader view stripped of ads and clutter, and newsletter subscription management.
It also stood out for being fully open source end to end, meaning technically capable users could self-host their own instance rather than relying solely on the hosted omnivore.app service.
Omnivore was offered free of charge throughout its operating life, funded by venture investment rather than subscription revenue, with no meaningful paid tier for end users.
Since the November 2024 shutdown, there is no pricing to evaluate: the hosted service no longer accepts new users or syncs content, and the only remaining option is self-hosting the open-source codebase.
No. Omnivore was acquired by ElevenLabs on November 1, 2024, and the hosted service was shut down on November 15, 2024, with user data deleted after an extended export window.
ElevenLabs acquired Omnivore primarily to bring its engineering team on board to work on its ElevenReader app, not to continue operating the Omnivore product, so the service had no continuing owner and was discontinued.
The export window closed November 30, 2024, and all user data has since been deleted; no export is currently possible through the official service.
Yes, Omnivore was fully open source and its codebase remains publicly available on GitHub, so technically capable users can self-host their own instance.
The Omnivore team joined ElevenLabs to work on ElevenReader, an AI-powered reading and listening application.
Common alternatives include Readwise Reader, Instapaper, Matter, and self-hosted open-source options like Wallabag.
Omnivore was founded around 2021 and was based in San Francisco before its November 2024 acquisition and shutdown.