I've tried all of the options: Linkwarden, Linkding, Karakeep, Shiori, Wallabag, Grimoire—you name it, I've tried it. These are all great tools, and I use Karakeep myself, but I use it to bookmark and archive links, not as a "read it later" tool.

In my opinion, no self-hosted read-it-later tool can replace Instapaper or Pocket, as they focus on providing an exceptional reading experience in a native app that works offline. None of the self-hosted tools offer a comparable experience.

So, depending on how you used Pocket, there are either better or no self-hosted options.

I wish Mozilla would open-source Pocket so it could be made into a self-hostable option.

> Wallabag

Oh man. I have been working on a side project just for this purpose. The aim is to create a pocket like experience (with additional functionality like handling other media types) that is local first, unhosted, and more future-proof (no lock in).

All data is stored entirely on your device, and you have the option to sync it to your own storage provider like dropbox. This means you don't need to have the technical know-how to setup and maintain a server.

Its not usable yet, as I have rewritten it several times, but in the current iteration it is a client side PWA, so cross platform. Just started a new job so had to take a break for a bit.

Follow if you are interested (I need to update the Readme): https://github.com/jonocodes/savr

I use linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

Have been hosting it for years, there’s a browser extension and a phone app by a third party developer as well.

I also tried readeck for a while but went back to lindking because of missing features

https://readeck.org/en/

There’s also linkwarden

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Too colourful for me, can’t like the design

And there’s also karakeep

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

I'm using & developing Omnom (read-only demo: https://omnom.zone/ ). It is self-hosted, free software, fediverse compatible and creates 1:1 snapshots of the saved websites: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom

I don't understand the Linkding recommendations.

AFAICT Linkding is a bookmarking app, much like Pinboard, not a read-later app like Pocket.

There is readeck, linkwarden and karakeep. Each has a slight different focus (readeck probably has the most read it later focus). There is also omnivore, but I have been struggling to get it to work selhosting (there currently is a bug that prevents signing in), it is also quite resource heavy.

This might come off as dismissive, but after using services like Delicious from way back, I've more or less ended up using Obsidian to edit a few markdown files that contain links to stuff I liked.

I know there are services that offer more, but if I look at how I __actually__ used them, this does the trick.

WordPress + Friends + Post Collection plugins (+send to e-reader), see https://youtu.be/kHaODAUazwE?t=214

I've been using https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding and highly recommend it.

I've been using Readeck, but I never actually used pocket, so I'm not sure how comparable they are.

Karakeep is good. You can import the pocket bookmarks. It can do automatic AI tagging.