Everything you meant to read, in one place.

Read It Later is a reading library. Send it links from anywhere and find them again on every device. Anything unread keeps its corner folded down until you read it.

Open Read It Later How it works

Free. Make an account with your email, Google or GitHub.

A watercolour of a desk corner: a pile of papers with their corners folded down, a cup of tea, a pencil and a ranunculus.

Wherever you read

Read It Later runs in the browser, as a Mac app, and on iPhone and Android, with the same library on each. It opens in light, and each device can switch to dark or follow the system.

The Read It Later Mac app: a sidebar with Unread, Favorites, Read and Everything, and the Unread view listing saved articles and posts, each with its corner folded down. — The Mac app, with everything unread waiting in one list.

The same library on an iPhone: the Unread tab, with Unread, Favorites and Read in the tab bar at the bottom. — The same pile on the phone.

Save a link from wherever you found it

Paste it, drop it, or send it from another app. Read It Later fetches the title, description, image and reading time, so the card is ready by the time you look.

In the app

Paste a link into Read It Later on any device, or anywhere on the page on the web and the Mac.
Drag a link onto the window.
On the Mac, copy a link and press ⌥⌘S from any app.

From your browser and phone

The bookmarklet, a bookmark you click in your browser, saves the page you are on.
On iPhone and Android, Share → Read It Later saves from Safari, Chrome or any other app.

For developers

The save API takes a link and your key.
Coming soon: a command line (read-it-later add and a link) and an agent skill that lets a coding agent save links for you.

Later, with Plus: your bookmarks from X

Plus will be a paid subscription. It connects your account on X (formerly Twitter): Read It Later then checks your X bookmarks every 15 minutes, and new ones appear beside your links, with the post, its author and its images.

Once you have read a bookmark, it is removed from X after a delay you set, or never. Everything else in Read It Later is free, and stays free.

Unread things keep their corner folded

Every unread item has its corner turned down, the way you would mark a page. Read it and the corner unfolds. Nothing else in the library asks for your attention.

Deleting moves an item to Trash, where you can still restore it. Trash empties itself after the time you choose: 1, 7, 30 or 90 days, or never.

Why we save more than we read

Saving a link feels like reading it. A short history of the unread pile, from commonplace books to browser tabs.

kestrelreview.com·18 min·2h ago

Ines Varga@inesvarga

A reading list rule I keep coming back to: if it’s still unread in a month, it wasn’t for me. Deleting is reading too.

x.com·4h ago

Cold-press, hot-press and rough: choosing watercolour paper

What the three surfaces do to a wash, and why most painters start on cold-press.

paperandpigment.net·9 min·Yesterday

Keyboard first, on the web and the Mac

Move through the pile with j and k, mark what you have read with e, and search with /. Press ? in the app for the full list.

jk: Next and previous item
e: Mark as read or unread
s: Favorite
#: Delete
/: Search
n: Save a link
?: Every shortcut

Four cards in the Mac app's Everything view: three unread with their corners folded, one read and flat, and the keyboard's pencil ring round the second. — Press j to move the outline to the next card. The read card lies flat: its corner is no longer folded.

jk: Next and previous item
e: Mark as read or unread
s: Favorite
#: Delete
/: Search
n: Save a link
?: Every shortcut

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