Omnivore Service Termination
Read it later app
In times like these when there's an overflow of reading material, "Read it Later" apps are essential services. Many people use them because it's very efficient for time management to save interests or reading materials in advance and then read them all at once later.
In my case, to mention just the most famous ones, for English content I've registered TLDR, Hackernews newsletters, Javascript community or Frontend-related feeds, PARA method's Tiego Forte's newsletter, and I've also added dev blog RSS feeds like Netflix and Spotify. For Korean content, I'm using Geeknews and dev blogs from big companies like Kakao, Naver, Toss, and RSS from Outsider's blog.
Read it later apps that manage these flood-like sources are truly like refreshing rain.
Until last year, I was using the most famous Pocket, but in January this year, I discovered a new app called Omnivore and have been using it. Omnivore not only allowed me to save and read articles I wanted to read, but also enabled RSS registration and receiving various newsletters in one place through email. It was a very convenient service that allowed me to organize personal emails cleanly and collect, highlight, and archive newsletters or RSS feeds.
However, I recently received a shocking email.
Omnivore Service Termination
It was news that Omnivore was terminating its service after being acquired by ElevenLabs. Initially, the development speed was fast and I was using it well, but updates became infrequent, and I eventually received the termination message below.
It was also disappointing that they only gave 2 weeks until data deletion and told us to back up ourselves. There was controversy on Reddit and such, so now the backup period has been extended to a month, but anyway, there was an urgent need to migrate data.
ElevenLabs, which acquired Omnivore, is a company famous for AI-powered voice generation services, and their ElevenReader is far from being a "Read it Later" app, so I started looking for other services.
Alternative Services
I tried Instapaper, Readwise, Wallabag, Raindrop, etc., and I newly realized how excellent Omnivore's feature support was despite being free. Most alternative services weren't as satisfying as Omnivore. Below are brief usage impressions of each service.
I tried using Pocket again. It was the most simple and convenient, but there was one inconvenient point. You couldn't distinguish between deletion and archiving through slides. Personally, I prefer to archive articles I want to see again or collect, and delete the rest, but this part was very inconvenient. In Omnivore, you could delete with left slide and archive with right slide, which was convenient, but Pocket doesn't have such distinction, which is disappointing. Also, you need to use Zapier for RSS registration, and it supports offline reading.
Instapaper
It was good because it was simple, but the service's features were too basic compared to Omnivore. Still, it was good that it provided email for newsletter registration. However, for RSS, you need to use Zapier, and it supports offline reading.
Readwise Reader
This was the most satisfying. It supports almost the same features that Omnivore provided, and it's convenient to use with just the keyboard due to good accessibility. When using Omnivore, I used to save work like opening windows to Original addresses to a personally created Gist, but Readwise Reader provides various features flexibly, so there's no such inconvenience. It also provides summaries for each article through an AI service called Ghostreader. However, it's a paid service, and the monthly cost of $9 is expensive. It also supports offline reading.
Raindrop
Raindrop can manage bookmarks elegantly, but it was somewhat inconvenient as a "Read it Later" app. Some people recommend it occasionally, but it's an app more focused on bookmark management.
Moving to Readwise Reader
Although expensive, since it provides a free trial period, I decided to try Readwise Reader. After using it for a few days, I felt that being a paid service, it supports more features better than Omnivore. Interestingly, after looking through about 10 services, there wasn't a single service among those supporting free tiers that was as good as Omnivore.
With Readwise Reader, there's less fatigue thanks to its keyboard-centric usage, and the UI itself is well designed to focus on reading articles. I also liked Readwise's philosophy about "read it later" apps.
Also, it was the app that supported integration most quickly as soon as Omnivore announced service termination. Reddit link 
While other services were quiet or users directly shared Integration scripts, Readwise seems to have deployed quickly simultaneously with Omnivore's service shutdown announcement.
If you haven't used a read it later app before, I recommend trying Pocket first. Because it's basically free, and just like people who use Superhuman for email management have mixed opinions (expensive vs worth the cost), this too can have different perceived value for different people, so I don't particularly recommend it.
However, if you have a lot of content and resources to read and want to optimize management or reading methods more productively, I strongly recommend trying Readwise Reader once.
If anyone is interested, you can get an additional month of free trial by signing up through the link below. Referral Link
Conclusion
Before using Omnivore, I subscribed to and used Pocket annually, so I thought if Omnivore became paid, I would pay to use it too, but completely terminating the service - I really never imagined that. Actually, if you go to github issues, there were quite a few people like me who were disappointed or surprised.
Still, since I used it so well for free until now, I'm grateful to the Omnivore team for operating such a good service.