What it is

wallabag is a self-hosted web application for saving web pages and reading them later. It lives in the PHP and Symfony ecosystem, is released under the MIT license, and presents itself as a read-it-later tool for users who want to keep their saved articles on their own server. The project also points to wallabag.it as a hosted account option for people who do not want to run the application themselves.

The problem it solves is the gap between finding an article to read later and actually reading it in a clean, manageable form. wallabag saves a page, extracts the content, and lets the user classify articles so the saved material can be revisited without the original page's pop-ups and other distractions. The repository describes the basic workflow as click, save, and read later, with companion clients and browser tools listed around the main application.

Key capabilities

• wallabag saves web pages for later reading by extracting article content from the saved page.
• The application runs as a self-hosted PHP program built with the Symfony framework.
• It supports saving and classifying articles, as stated in the repository description.
• The project provides companion clients for Android and iOS, plus a browser extension named wallabagger.
• wallabag offers a hosted option through wallabag.it for users who prefer not to operate their own server.
• Content extraction relies on Graby, php-readability, and ftr-site-config.
• Translation work is handled through Weblate.

Who uses it and how

• Readers save pages from a browser and return to them later in an extracted reading view.
• Self-hosters install wallabag on their own server and configure a virtual host for access.
• Mobile users can access saved pages through the Android or iOS apps listed in the README.
• Browser users can save pages with the wallabagger extension.
• Linux desktop users can connect through the GNOME read-it-later application, which the README notes is not maintained by the project.

Getting started

Install from source by cloning the repository, running make install, and configuring a virtual host; use gmake install when the default make is not GNU make. The documentation lists other installation methods, and users may instead create an account on wallabag.it.

When to use it — and when not to

wallabag fits users who want a self-hosted, MIT-licensed read-it-later application in the PHP and Symfony ecosystem and who are willing to operate the server, virtual host, and installation requirements. It is less suitable for users who want a service with no administrative responsibility, because the self-hosted path requires server setup and maintenance. The repository shows 764 open issues, so a new user should review the issue tracker and documentation before relying on it for saved reading.

git clone https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag.git
cd wallabag && make install