Read, highlight, and actually think about what you read — no account, no tracking, your data stays on your device. PDF and EPUB, completely free.
The best readers annotate as they go. A highlight nobody revisits might as well not exist. Marginalia turns a highlight into something you actually use again.
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Real highlighting in four colours and styles, chapters and outline navigation, typography controls, and a reading position that's remembered per book — not bolted on after the fact for one format and half-working on the other.
Save any page from the browser extension with one click, sort it into collections and tags, and it's waiting in your Saved tab — clean, readable, and still there next week.
Subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed, organise them into folders, and read in a proper three-pane view — with full-text fetch for feeds that only publish summaries.
Notebooks with real covers and paper types, rich text and handwriting fonts, mood and weather, streaks without the guilt — and a highlight you liked, dragged straight into today's entry as a linked quote.
Drag highlights, articles, and books onto an infinite canvas and draw the lines between them yourself — or let a per-book map surface the connections for you.
Everything lives in this browser by default — no account, nothing sent anywhere. Turn on sync only if you want your library on another device or in the extension; self-host the whole thing with Docker if you'd rather not trust anyone's server, including ours.
| Marginalia | Readwise | Raindrop.io | Day One | LiquidText | |
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| Price | Free | Subscription | Free / paid tiers | Subscription | Free / paid tiers |
| Account required | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PDF + EPUB reader | ✓ | Import only | — | — | ✓ |
| Read-later + browser extension | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — |
| RSS reader | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Journal & open loops | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Kindle / Pocket import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |