The latest articles on DEV Community by Rav (@ravi_sawhney_81de7e8a3dea). https://dev.to/ravi_sawhney_81de7e8a3dea https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3731366%2Fe524bf95-4207-4759-8c84-c7b79bc6b6b1.jpg https://dev.to/ravi_sawhney_81de7e8a3dea en Rav Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:42:14 +0000 https://dev.to/ravi_sawhney_81de7e8a3dea/rightread-finally-a-replacement-for-mozilla-pocket-5d5d https://dev.to/ravi_sawhney_81de7e8a3dea/rightread-finally-a-replacement-for-mozilla-pocket-5d5d <p>Been looking for a simple, offline ready web application to save things I want to read after Pocket shut down. Couldnt find anything that I liked so created one - hopefully others might like. </p> <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://assets.dev.to/assets/github-logo-5a155e1f9a670af7944dd5e12375bc76ed542ea80224905ecaf878b9157cdefc.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/monkeydust" rel="noopener noreferrer"> monkeydust </a> / <a href="https://github.com/monkeydust/rightread" rel="noopener noreferrer"> rightread </a> </h2> <h3> Read-later: capture links from anywhere, read them clean and offline </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"><div> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h1 class="heading-element">rightread</h1> </div> <p><strong>Capture links from anywhere. Read them clean, later, offline.</strong></p> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/monkeydust/rightread/docs/demo.gif"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fmonkeydust%2Frightread%2FHEAD%2Fdocs%2Fdemo.gif" alt="Pasting a link into rightread and watching it save and extract" width="360"></a> <p><em>Paste a link. It gets extracted and it's ready to read, clean and offline.</em></p> </div> <p>Save a link from your phone's share sheet or your browser toolbar. rightread strips the page down to the article, with no ads, no cookie banners and no newsletter popups, and keeps it readable offline in typography built for long reading.</p> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">Why this exists</h2> </div> <p>On 22 May 2025, Mozilla <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">announced it was winding Pocket down</a>. I'd used it for years for one thing: saving something on my phone and reading it properly later, usually when I was on the tube.</p> <p>The alternatives were mostly 'meh' so I built the small thing I missed. One queue, clean text, works on a plane, running on a server I control with the whole library in a single SQLite file I can copy.</p> <p>The reading list lives on your…</p></div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/monkeydust/rightread" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> opensource showdev tools webdev