Read the web. Not the slop.
Paste any article link. Get a clean reader view with a TL;DR summary — articles or PDFs, in seconds. No signup. No download. Try it with that one article you've been meaning to read.
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Pocket is gone. Omnivore is gone. I built Readplace from a personal system I've maintained for 10 years. Save articles with one click, read them when you're ready.
Firefox & Chrome
I believe we can fix the web
Hi, I'm Fayner Brack. You might know me as the creator of js-cookie, a JavaScript library with over 22 billion downloads per year on jsDelivr (the tiniest most consumed browser library in the entire world).
Yes, I've been building for the web for a long time. I also read and share a lot of writing across the web[1].
For ten years I ran my own reading on Gmail filters, DynamoDB tables, and a stack of Reddit automations. That pipeline taught me the bottleneck was never saving. It was deciding what NOT to read.
1: As of June 2026, around 350k Reddit karma over 11,850 submissions, and 15k on HN over 2,700, all within the decade since 2016. On average I read 40% of what I find, and I share 60% to 70% of what I read. That figure has changed over time, with more links coming in and better curation.
Last year, when Pocket was acquired and then abandoned, and Omnivore shut down overnight, I realised the tool I needed didn't exist as a product anyone could use. So I'm turning my personal system into Readplace — built in Australia, one feature at a time.
This is a solo project. I'm building it in public, and I'd rather be honest about what works today than promise features that don't exist yet.
I am the only person working on Readplace, using my 20 years of engineering experience to push AI-assisted coding to its limits while keeping readplace a place where you read the web, not the slop. The code is on GitHub. The infrastructure is in Sydney under Australian privacy law. If Readplace ever shuts down, your data exports to JSON, and the codebase is forkable — you can self-host the same software the day after. I cannot promise I’ll succeed, but I can promise that if I don’t, you won’t lose your data.
Save an article. Read it later.
Desktop
Browser Extension
What works today.
These features are shipped and working right now. Install the extension and try them.
TL;DR Summaries
Every saved article gets a TL;DR outlining the most important points. Built on the same AI that powers the reading experience.
PDF Extraction with Real OCR
Save any PDF link. Real Tesseract OCR turns it into a clean, readable article with a TL;DR — scanned pages included.
Browser Extensions
Save any page with one click, Ctrl/Cmd+D, or right-click. The extension captures the full rendered page — picking the most complete version of the content over what a URL-only crawl would see. Available for Firefox and Chrome.
Connect Your AI Assistant
Readplace runs an MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI assistants can save links to your queue and read your list back — right inside the conversation. One OAuth login and your assistant does the rest.
How to connect →Links Import
Upload bookmarks, notes, newsletters — any text-shaped export — and Readplace pulls every URL out for you to review before saving.
Privacy First
Hosted in Sydney. Australian Privacy Act compliant. No third-party tracking, no ads.
Same article, different versions?
When you save from the browser extension, Readplace captures the rendered page you’re looking at. When you paste a link on the homepage, Readplace fetches it server-side. DeepSeek does the canonical disambiguation so both paths converge on the same article — even when the source URL is wrapped in a tracker (utm_*, gclid).
The extension-captured version wins when both exist, as long as it’s the most complete version of the content. If you saved from the extension while logged in to a site, you captured the full article — saving again when logged out won’t overwrite it with the paywalled version. Most read-later apps replace the captured version with whatever the canonical URL returns; Readplace keeps the most complete one.
What's Next
Share to Save on Mobile Save to Readplace from any app with one tap from the share sheet — no copy-paste.
What to Read Next Sort and filter your unread pile by recently saved, reading time, and tags, so the time you have goes to what matters most.
Listen to Articles Play any saved article as audio — for the commute, the walk, or doing chores.
Readplace vs the Read-It-Later Alternatives
| Readplace | Readwise Reader | Instapaper | Raindrop.io | Karakeep | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $49/yr | $119.88/yr | Free / $59.99/yr | Free / $28/yr | Free self-host / $40/yr |
| AI Features | TL;DR summary + page capture | Ghostreader AI | Summaries | AI assistant (Pro) | Tagging + summaries |
| PDF Text Extraction | 300 pages / 500 MB — Tesseract OCR | No OCR — needs text layer | Premium only — no OCR | Pro upload — no OCR | 50 MB — no PDF OCR |
| Open Source | Source-available | ✗ | ✗ | Clients only (MIT) | ✓ |
| Platforms | Web, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox | Web, iOS, Android, Desktop, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Kindle/Kobo, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox | Web, iOS, Android, Desktop, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Web, iOS, Android, Extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari |
What Readplace will NOT become.
Readplace will not add:
- Nested folder hierarchies
- Social feeds or public collections
- Secret browsing-history capture
- Recommendation algorithms to simulate social media
Those features grow daily active users by encouraging saving. Readplace is to encourage reading what matters to you.
And that's why I need your help!
What $49 a year pays for.
Every saved article runs through this pipeline:
- Mozilla Readability — parses the page.
- Real Tesseract OCR — up to 300 pages / 500 MB. Pixel-level recognition, not an LLM guessing at an image.
- DeepSeek V3.2 — writes the TL;DR and restores OCR structure. A document-diff blocks any word it tries to add or remove.
No AI generated slop — correctness over hallucination. Tesseract reads the page character by character; the LLM only restores structure, gated by a document-diff. What you read is what was on the page.
$49/year covers infrastructure and crawler maintenance. No ads, no data resale, no VC bridge. This is the whole business.
Price-check the providers: DeepSeek pricing. Tesseract runs in AWS Lambda on a per-request basis.
Free for the first 5 members.
Founding Member
$0 forever
Be one of the first 5 users. Get full access free, forever. Help shape the product. $49/year for everyone else — includes TL;DR summaries.
- Save unlimited articles
- Firefox and Chrome extensions
- TL;DR summaries included
- PDF extraction with Tesseract OCR
- All features as they ship
- Direct access to the developer
Don’t miss out!
- Save unlimited articles
- Firefox and Chrome extensions
- TL;DR summaries included
- PDF extraction with Tesseract OCR
- All features as they ship
- Direct access to the developer
A Pocket alternative that respects your privacy.
Every read-it-later app that shut down left users scrambling. Readplace is built differently — starting with your right to leave.
"Even If You Cancel" Promise
Export everything, anytime. Your data is yours. Cancel and your saved articles stay available for export as JSON.
Source-available on GitHub
The whole codebase is on GitHub. If I ever shut Readplace down, you can fork the repo and self-host the same software the day after.
Hosted in Sydney, Australia
Infrastructure sits under the Australian Privacy Act. No third-party tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics inside the app.
I'm building this in public.
Try the extension, tell me what to build next. Readplace gets better with every user who shows up and says what they need.