PagewingThe best read-later apps and extensions for Chrome
Pick Readwise Reader if you want one inbox for articles, PDFs, newsletters, RSS and YouTube with the best highlighting tools, and you'll pay for it after the trial. Pick Instapaper if you want a simple, inexpensive queue that works on your phone and Kindle. Pick Pagewing if you mostly save web articles in Chrome, want highlights, listening and AI summaries free, and prefer one subscription that also covers a PDF editor, screenshots and short links. Matter suits iPhone readers who listen a lot; Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager first; Chrome's Reading list holds a handful of links. Pocket shut down in 2025, and its export imports into Pagewing or Readwise.
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Readwise Reader
Best for: heavy readers who want every format in one queue and will pay for it
A read-later app that takes articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube videos and X threads into one inbox, with highlighting on any web page, text-to-speech and Ghostreader AI. It pairs with Readwise Highlights, which reviews what you marked in Kindle and other apps.
- Price
- No free plan; 30-day trial, then Full Readwise (Reader and Highlights) $12.99 a month billed monthly or $9.99 a month billed yearly; Reader only $7.99 a month billed yearly
- Free plan
- 30-day trial only
- Runs on
- Browser extension, web app, iOS and Android
- Every format in one place
- Excellent highlighting, keyboard-driven reading and full-text search
- Exports highlights to Notion, Obsidian and more
- No free plan
- Among the most expensive options here
- More than many people need for saving articles
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Instapaper
Best for: readers who want a quiet, inexpensive queue on their phone and Kindle
The long-running minimal read-later app: save from the browser, read in a clean view on the web, iPhone, iPad or Android, send to Kindle, and file articles into folders.
- Price
- Free plan; Premium $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year
- Free plan
- Saving with no cap, sync and folders; notes capped at 5 a month
- Runs on
- Web, iOS and Android, with Kindle delivery and a browser button
- Simple and fast
- Folders and sync free
- Inexpensive Premium with full-text search, Kindle delivery and text-to-speech
- Full-text search, the permanent archive and unlimited notes need Premium
- Fewer highlighting and AI tools than Readwise or Pagewing
- Its export has no highlights
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Pagewing
Best for: Chrome readers who save web articles and want highlights, listening and summaries in one subscription with their other browser tools
Save any page or link in one click from the Chrome side panel, highlight text on any web page in five colors, and read later in a clean reader that remembers where you stopped, reads aloud with your browser's voices and summarizes or answers questions from the article's own text. Imports Pocket, Omnivore and Instapaper exports free.
- Price
- Free plan; Premium and Pro remove the limits for every tool at once
- Free plan
- 250 saved articles, with highlights, the reader, listening, summaries and imports
- Runs on
- Chrome, with the reading list and reader on the Pagewing website
- Highlights in five colors on the live page and the saved copy
- Listening, summaries and imports free
- One subscription also covers a PDF editor, screenshots and short links
- Chrome only, no mobile app
- Web pages only: no PDFs, newsletters or RSS
- A young product; tags, notes on highlights and search inside articles need Premium
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Matter
Best for: iPhone and iPad readers who listen to articles as much as they read them
A reading app built around the iPhone: articles, newsletters and PDFs in one queue, with text-to-speech, highlights and notes that sync to Notion and Readwise, and an AI co-reader on Premium.
- Price
- Free plan; Premium $79.99 a year through the App Store, with monthly plans listed there too
- Free plan
- Saving and reading, with limits on highlights and integrations
- Runs on
- iOS, iPad, Mac and the web, with browser extensions for saving
- A polished reading and listening experience
- Highlights sync to Notion and Readwise
- Newsletters and RSS on Premium
- No Android app
- Premium is sold through the App Store, with prices that differ by plan and region
- Saving from Chrome is the extension's only job
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Raindrop.io
Best for: people who want one home for bookmarks and the occasional article
A bookmark manager with collections, tags and highlights on any page; its Pro plan adds permanent copies of saved pages, full-text search and annotations. Good for keeping links, less so for reading them.
- Price
- Free plan; Pro billed monthly or yearly, with the price shown on its pricing page
- Free plan
- Bookmarks and highlights with no cap, 100 MB of uploads a month
- Runs on
- Browser extensions, web, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps
- Highlights on the free plan
- Permanent copies and full-text search on Pro
- Apps everywhere
- No reading view or listening
- Annotations and search need Pro
- A bookmark manager first, not a reading queue
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Chrome's Reading list
Best for: a few links to come back to this week
The list built into Chrome: add the open tab and find it in the side panel or on your phone, marked read or unread. No reader, highlights or search inside articles.
- Price
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs on
- Chrome on every platform
- Already installed and free
- In the side panel and on your phone
- Marks pages read or unread
- No highlights, notes or tags
- No clean copy of the article
- No export
Prices and features as read on each app's own site in October 2026, billed monthly in US dollars unless said otherwise. They change: check there before you decide.
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Questions
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What happened to Pocket, and where can I take my list?
Pocket shut down in 2025 and its apps and extension stopped working. If you exported your list before your account closed, Pagewing imports the CSV or HTML file free, with tags and archive, and so does Readwise Reader.
Is Readwise Reader free?
No. Readwise has a 30-day trial and then costs $12.99 a month billed monthly for the Full plan, or $9.99 a month billed yearly; Reader on its own is $7.99 a month billed yearly. Instapaper, Pagewing, Matter and Raindrop.io have free plans.
Which read-later app highlights web pages?
Readwise Reader, Pagewing and Raindrop.io highlight text on the live page in the browser. Instapaper and Matter highlight inside their own readers. Chrome's Reading list doesn't highlight.
Which one reads articles aloud?
Readwise Reader and Matter have their own voices, Instapaper adds text-to-speech on Premium, and Pagewing reads any saved article with your browser's voices for free.
Can I import my Instapaper or Pocket export into Pagewing?
Yes, free. Pagewing reads Pocket's CSV or HTML export, Instapaper's CSV or HTML export and Omnivore's .zip. Archived items stay archived and Pocket's tags come along; from Instapaper, Starred items become favorites and folders become tags. On the free plan the first 250 articles come in.
Is Pagewing free?
Yes. Every tool works on the free plan, with a few limits. Premium removes the limits and adds features like share links, PDF signatures and cloud storage, for every tool at once. Pro adds Office conversions, bookmark cleanups and AI summaries and branding for recordings on top. You only add a card if you decide to upgrade.
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