Omnivore Reviews

The Mac app feels like a terrible port of an iOS app. Has less features (No Notebook, etc.) and just looks half-baked.

The speed and interface on this app are nice. And I'd gladly play for this....if it worked. But way more often than not, it pulls down a teribly stripped down version of the page I want. For insance on Reddit threads, it's get's just the intial comment, if that. As is, this app is essentially not useable due to not being able to trust its results.

Good app but the highlight feature does not work in “reader” view in Safari on iphone or ipad. This means, if I want highlighted text, I have to remember to hide the reader view, then highlight the text, then use the share menu to save to this app. Maybe this has more to do with Apple’s interface and less how Omnivore does not perform. However, it’s unlikely that I’ll try to remember to do one more thing whenever I’m saving content. I do like the notes feature which is probably what I’ll use.

Updated: Omnivore was great. Now seems like all the articles get halfway though and then stop. Not sure the problem but I hope they can fix it

So great. Makes it a breeze to catch up on all the news. Especially while there is so much. The only thing I could wish for is an option to create a playlist so I can load multiple articles and have them play without having to pick up my phone to reload the next. Still, fantastic idea well executed

As others have said for over a year, limited functionality, a very scaled down app. Of course please remember that this is Open Source and free, so if you don't like it, please fix it. I know it's beyond my skill.

I'm a huge fan of this app, and have it installed on all my devices. Yet, for some inexplciable reason, the MacOS app is a different, scaled-down version of the real app. Why wouldn't they just mirror the web app?

I recently went on a quest to find a better bookmark / read it later app. I had been using Pocket and before upgrading to the paid version, I did a quick evaluation and am glad I did. I narrowed my selection to Pocket, Raindrop and this app and landed on this app - not because of cost but features and usability. I wanted to save references, add notes, search and easily find what I saved (not just the link but search the content of the link) and add tags. this app comes pretty close to nailing it and I only have two issues that I hope are resolved soon. First the rendering of saved pages is pretty bad and almost always have to click the original link to render in browser. Second and most important to me, the number of clicks (touches) is maddening. I want to save an item, type a note (maybe) and add a tag or two or many (they call them labels), save and move on. This is cumbersome at best. Hope this process is streamlined significantly in future release. But overall, on the right track.

This is my new favorite reading app. One request would be to make it easier to view and edit metadata like date published etc. These fields are available to save to Obsidian, but I can't see or edit them in this app.

Why are people using Pocket? Why are people using Instapaper?

I don't know. Because they should all be using Omnivore instead. Those apps deserve three, maybe four star apps tops. This fixes every problem they had, primarily: significantly improved web page to app conversion, far greater options for formatting, and more realistic reading voices.

It's the best. Just use it already.

I’ve been using free and paid services for saving and reading articles for many years now. Omnivore is doing everything right except one thing: please give us the option to support you monetarily. Add an option to tip please!

Thank you for the clean interface, and great customization options for article viewing. Keep up the great work.

I never write reviews for apps, but this app really impresses. The flexibility and ability to customize exceeded my expectations of what any read-it-later app may offer. Contrasted against Instapaper and others that charge monthly subscriptions to highlight with fewer features and worse UI, this is a standout from the pack. My only gripe is with web pages that cannot be parsed and imported. It would be great to have a workaround feature to import articles that can’t be parsed.

I’ve used every read it later app in the store and this app is the best for the way I want to use this type of app. Hands down!

I like to read through headlines in my RSS reader, Twitter, or Mastodon, and when I see something interesting, save it until the end of the day when I have more time to read. Omnivore handles that use case perfectly and renders the text more accurately than any I’ve used, without dropping large portions of the article or throwing annoying paywalls in your way constantly.

If you want to use this in the way I do, I highly recommend giving this app a look. It’s a great application and I’m loving it!

I've used a lot of read it later platforms. I used Notion for awhile, Pocket, and even saved a lot of stuff to Raindrop (which I love), but none have the fuctionality and ease of use of Omnivore. The ability to highlight text, add notes, tags, save PDFs, and the text to audio is also amazing. Support this app! Fantastic app.

I rely on “read it later” and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities for a variety of accessibility needs. This is a major way that I engage with content online, so a thoughtfully designed and well-supported reader app is essential to me on a daily basis

I’ve used just about every other reader app out there —paid and free— and gave up on *all* of them out of frustration for one reason or another. I even briefly started coding my own solution before I found out about this app.

While I’m still early days with Omnivore, it is already superior to everything else I’ve tried. It’s such a relief!

Reasons to use Omnivore:
- It’s free and open source!
- Easy to use but offers flexibility for power users like me
- TTS voices are the best quality I’ve experienced in any app so far, at any price. I’m using “Nova” right now.
- Active and ongoing development of Omnivore . This is so important!

My biggest and most urgent request is for a custom “playlist“ or “queue“ function for more continuous TTS playback. With that, this app would be pretty much perfect!

It fits my workflow very well. Grateful to the developers.

Some were too busy, some were too pricey, others were didn't support enough platforms.

This one is just right! Plus being open source means, you are free to extend it in any way you absolutely need.

I judge myself for not have found it soone in my life!

Love Omnivore. FOSS ftw. Exactly what I needed and syncs great with Obsidian. Thank you this app team!

Thank you very much

Marvelously written. I use this on all of my devices and it has fixed my huge number of open tabs and chaotic bookmarks.

Really great, especially the integration with Obsidian. The Mac app really isn't great, but the web app is. Instead of using the Mac app, I just have a shortcut that opens the web app. Honestly, a web wrapper might actually be better.

this app's open source development and non-commercial interests make this the most promising user-centered reader app I've come across. Excellent text-to-speech in the iOS version, with development plans to allow self hosted versions of the service, makes this a privacy no-brainer.

The desktop app is not as sophisticated as their web app, but this version includes the needed Safari extension for capturing content into your library.

Great app!