Omnivore Is Gone. Here's Your New Home.
Omnivore was acquired by ElevenLabs and shut down its read-it-later service. Screvi is a complete replacement with article reading, book highlights, AI search, and more.
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What is Omnivore?
Omnivore was an open-source read-it-later app that gained popularity among developers and power users for its clean design, API, and self-hosting capabilities. In late 2024, Omnivore was acquired by ElevenLabs (an AI voice company), and the read-it-later service was discontinued. This left many users, especially those who valued open-source and data ownership, searching for a new home for their reading workflow.
What Omnivore users need in a replacement
- Omnivore was acquired by ElevenLabs and the read-it-later service was shut down
- A reliable article reader with web saving, highlighting, and browser extension
- Data portability: the ability to export highlights in standard formats
- A public API for building custom integrations (Omnivore users valued this)
- Book highlight support that Omnivore never offered
- Long-term reliability from an independent, sustainable product
- AI features to make a reading library actually useful over time
Screvi vs Omnivore: Feature Comparison
Screvi: 22/24 features · Omnivore: 0/24 features
| Feature | Screvi | Omnivore |
|---|---|---|
| Save articles from the web | Shut down | |
| Distraction-free article reader | Shut down | |
| Highlight text in articles | Shut down | |
| Browser extension | Shut down | |
| iOS & Android apps | Shut down | |
| Public API | Shut down | |
| Open source | Shut down | |
| Self-hosting | Shut down | |
| Import Kindle highlights | ||
| Import Kobo highlights | ||
| Import Apple Books highlights | ||
| Import PDF annotations | ||
| Import Twitter/X bookmarks | ||
| Save YouTube transcripts | ||
| Physical book scanner (OCR) | ||
| AI semantic search | ||
| Spaced repetition review | ||
| Daily email digest | ||
| Highlights feed | ||
| AI topic discovery | ||
| AI highlight cleanup | ||
| Personal newsletter inbox | ||
| iOS home screen widget | ||
| Export to Markdown & HTML | Shut down |
Why choose Screvi over Omnivore
A public API you can count on
Omnivore users valued the API. Screvi offers a public REST API with Swagger docs, rate limiting, and API key auth, and it's not going anywhere.
Sustainable and independent
Screvi is funded by paying users, not venture capital. No risk of a surprise acquisition shutting down your reading app overnight.
Full data export
Export all your highlights anytime in Markdown or HTML format. Your data is yours, organized by source type in a ZIP file.
More than articles
Omnivore handled web articles. Screvi adds Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, PDF, physical book scanning, YouTube transcripts, and Twitter bookmarks, all in one place.
AI that actually helps
Semantic search, topic discovery, highlight cleanup, and article summaries. These aren't gimmicks. They make your reading library useful for finding and connecting ideas.
Remember what you save
Saving articles is step one. Screvi adds spaced repetition review, daily digests, and a highlights feed so your saved content doesn't become a digital graveyard.
Switching from Omnivore?
If you exported your Omnivore data, use Screvi's Markdown import or AI intelligent parser to bring your highlights over. Start saving new articles immediately with the browser extension or mobile app.
Frequently Asked Questions
Try it with your highlights
Create your account, add your highlights and see how Screvi can change the way you read.