A reader built for reading
Serif, sans-serif or a dyslexia-friendly typeface. Light, sepia, dark or follow-the-system themes. A progress bar, and it remembers your scroll position.
Private read-it-later for Chrome & Firefox
Save now. Read later. Keep it yours.
Savely saves any article in one click, strips it down to clean text, and lets you read it offline in a calm, adjustable reader. No account, no server, no tracking. Your reading list never leaves your device.
See what it does
Coming soon to Chrome & Firefox
- Free
- Works offline
- Imports your Pocket export
- No account. Nothing to sign up for.
- No server. There is no Savely cloud to leak.
- No telemetry. Zero analytics, zero trackers.
- Your data, portable. Export to JSON or bookmarks anytime.
How it works
Three moves, and the internet waits for you
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1
Save
Click the toolbar button, right-click a page or link, or press Ctrl+Shift+S. Savely pulls out the article and leaves the ads, pop-ups and cookie banners behind.
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2
Read
Open it later, even with no connection. Pick your text size, typeface, column width and theme. Savely remembers where you stopped.
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3
Keep
Highlight passages, add notes, tag, favorite and archive. Search every word you’ve saved, instantly.
Features
Everything a reading list needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
Highlights & notes
Select text to highlight it, then attach a note. Highlights stay anchored to the right sentence, even when you come back weeks later.
Full-text search
Search inside every article, not just titles. Type tag:recipes to filter by tag right from the search box.
Keyboard-first
Arrow through your list, Enter to read, a to archive, f to favorite, t to tag, / to search. Deleted by mistake? Undo.
Coming from Pocket
Import the CSV you exported from Pocket. Titles, links, tags, archive state and save dates come along. See how.
Export anytime
A full JSON backup with articles, tags and highlights, or a bookmarks file any browser can import. Savely also keeps daily snapshots of your list.
Optional sync, on your terms
Off by default. Turn it on and your list syncs through a private GitHub Gist you own, never through us. How it works.
On your phone, too
Works in Firefox for Android with the same list and the same reader, laid out for small screens.
A reader that goes fully quiet
Flip one switch and the reader stops loading images from the original site, so opening an article sends nothing anywhere.
Privacy
Your reading list is none of our business
What you save says a lot about you: your health worries, your job hunt, your politics, the thing you’re quietly learning. So Savely was built without a place to send it.
Articles, tags, highlights and notes live in your browser’s own storage. Savely only touches the network when you ask it to: fetching the page you’re saving, showing that page’s images (which you can turn off), or syncing to a location you choose.
- Accounts
- None
- Savely servers
- None
- Analytics & telemetry
- None
- Where your articles live
- Your browser (IndexedDB)
- Sync
- Off, unless you turn it on
- Leaving
- One-click export
Compatibility
Runs where you read
- ChromeDesktop
- FirefoxDesktop & Android
- EdgeDesktop
- BraveDesktop
- VivaldiDesktop
- OperaDesktop
Safari and Chrome for Android are not supported. Chrome on Android doesn’t run extensions; Firefox for Android does.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is Savely really free?
Yes. There’s no paid tier, and because there’s no server to run, there’s nothing to charge a subscription for.
Can I read saved articles offline?
Yes. When you save a page, Savely stores the article’s text in your browser. Opening it later needs no connection. Images still load from the original site unless you’ve turned remote images off.
Is Savely a good Pocket alternative?
If you liked Pocket for saving and reading articles, Savely covers the core of it: one-click saving, a clean reader, tags, favorites, archive and search. It also imports your Pocket CSV export. The difference is that nothing is stored on anyone’s server. Here’s how to move over.
What happens to my list if I switch computers?
Export a full backup from the options page and import it on the new machine, or turn on sync. Sync uses a private GitHub Gist on your own GitHub account, so your list moves without passing through us.
Is synced data encrypted?
A private Gist isn’t publicly listed, but it isn’t end-to-end encrypted either. Anyone with your GitHub token or access to your GitHub account could read it. Sync is off by default for exactly that reason. Only turn it on if you’re comfortable with that trade-off.
Why does Savely ask for permission to “access all websites”?
Only when you save a link without opening it, Savely has to download that page to extract the article. It asks at that moment rather than at install, and you can decline. Saving the page you’re on uses the browser’s one-time “active tab” permission instead.
Does it work on my phone?
On Android, yes, in Firefox. Chrome for Android and Safari on iOS don’t support this kind of extension.
Start a reading list that’s actually yours
Savely is on its way to the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. Store links will appear right here as soon as they’re live.
Chrome Coming soon
Firefox Coming soon