You can sign up for a free account with Framabag, which is a hosted version of wallabag that has over 1,200 users. You have two choices for getting going with wallabag. The new logo adopted the wallaby motif, and it is one of the more distinctive logos around. It wasn't just the name that changed, it was also the logo. The concept of bag, handbag, beggar's bag, suitcase, etc. Its pocket allows you to take away anything you find interesting. Why wallabag? According to Lœuillet, "From poche, we came to the wallaby, via the kangaroo. Lœuillet turned to the community, and after batting around a few ideas come up with the name wallabag. You can read more about the situation in a post on the wallabagblog. The letter also requested that Lœuillet stop using the name and the logo. The letter claimed that the name Poche, and the application's logo, infringed on Pocket's trademarks. In January, 2014 Lœuillet received a letter from the law firm representing the developer of Pocket. But the project started to attract attention from users-so much so, that's it's been downloaded over 4,100 times since December 2013.īut not all the attention that Poche received was positive. Poche, which is French for "pocket," was originally created for Lœuillet's own use. The result: his own read-it-later service called Poche. In true open source fashion, Lœuillet decided in April 2013 to both scratch his own itch and to exercise his PHP skills. Lœuillet grew concerned about the possibility that Pocket could suffer the same fate. The brainchild of French web developer Nicolas Lœuillet, an avid user of Pocket, wallabag began when Google Reader was shuttered in 2013. If you want a read-it-later tool that you control, then you'll want to take a look at wallabag. But all isn't lost for those of us who live life on the open source side of the fence. You have little or no control of your data. To get around that, you can use services like Readability, Instapaper, and Pocket that allow you clip articles and read them when you do have the time.Īs you've probably guessed, those services are closed source. No matter how well organized you are, no matter how well you manage your time, you probably don't get the chance to read all of the interesting articles that you find when you find them.
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