Omnivore shut down at the end of 2024, when its team joined ElevenLabs. Exports were extended through November 30, 2024, after which the team planned to erase links, highlights and user data. If you did not export in time, the service is already closed; if you have the file, you can import it into wallabag or another app.
The dates and quotes come from ElevenLabs' announcement, Omnivore's two blog posts (now offline, read through Internet Archive copies) and wallabag's migration guide, all checked on October 6, 2026.
This guide is part of A guide to saving articles and reading them later, which organizes every guide on the topic.
What happened to Omnivore?
- On October 29, 2024, ElevenLabs announced that the Omnivore team had joined the company to work on its ElevenReader app, and that Omnivore's open-source codebase would remain publicly available to developers.
- The same day, on Omnivore's blog, the founders set November 15, 2024 as the export deadline, "after which all information will be deleted."
- In a second post, Omnivore extended exports through November 30, 2024. It said it was winding down quickly because of the rising costs of running the service and that it planned to erase user data afterwards, "including links, highlights, folders, and personal user data."
Can I recover what I had saved?
Not from Omnivore. wallabag's guide says the service is now closed and that its steps assume you downloaded your export "while it was still possible." If you have it, that file is your only copy: keep it somewhere backed up before you try any import.
What did Omnivore itself recommend?
In its shutdown post, the team mentioned these options. KeepAnalog has not tested or compared them, and their features may have changed:
- Reader by Readwise (a paid service) and wallabag (open source) as read-it-later apps; it added that Readwise had released an Omnivore importer.
- Self-hosting Omnivore, with the support its open-source community built.
- ElevenReader, ElevenLabs' app, which the same post says is not a dedicated read-it-later app but a text-to-speech reader.
How do I import my export into wallabag?
According to wallabag's guide, Omnivore import has been available since wallabag 2.6.10. Its suggested steps:
- Locate your Omnivore export and keep the original archive as a backup.
- Choose an instance: self-host wallabag or use the hosted wallabag.it.
- Import the export.
- Review the imported entries and organize them with tags.
- Set up the browser extension, mobile app or RSS workflow you want to use.
The guide notes that the first migration announcement did not expect highlights to be supported: check your library after importing.
What Omnivore and Pocket leave behind
These lessons are KeepAnalog's own reading of the sources above:
- Open code did not save the data: Omnivore's code is still public, but anything not exported was set to be erased.
- Deadlines can be short: Omnivore first gave a little over two weeks to export. Pocket gave three months.
- Export every so often, even while the app works well, and keep copies of what matters most: links break too, as covered in When links disappear.
- Moving the list is not reading it: before importing everything, see Saving is not returning.
And if you would rather read them on paper?
KeepAnalog takes eligible public links that one person chooses (HTML pages or PDFs) and turns them into a monthly printed issue. The preview shows each piece's title, byline when there is one, and source site, and nothing is printed or charged until the person approves the issue. It does not import Omnivore exports, and for now the pilot is in Argentina only, with no delivery in the United States.