About Reading Rewind

Reading Rewind is a free read-later app for desktop Chrome, with Firefox in beta. It saves the article itself, not just the link, so what you save is still there when you come back to read it. It is built and run by an independent developer.

Why Reading Rewind exists

Saving an article shouldn't mean losing it.

Most of us keep a reading list somewhere it can't survive. Tabs pile up, slow the browser down, and vanish when a window closes. Bookmarks keep the link, but links rot: when the Pew Research Center checked pages that existed in 2013, 38% of them could no longer be reached a decade later (Pew Research Center, 2024). Even a whole reading list can go. Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025, and its users had a few months to export their saves before they were deleted.

Reading Rewind keeps the text of every article you save, in your own library, so a moved, changed, or deleted page doesn't take your reading with it.

What Reading Rewind is today

A read-later app first. Click the button in your browser toolbar and the page goes to the top of Read Later, your reading list. In the background, Reading Rewind strips out ads and clutter, stores the article text, and serves it in a clean reader view at the text size you like. After you sign in, Today shows the newest save that's ready to read. Tag as you save, filter by tag, and find anything by its title or address.

Bookmark sync as a bonus. The same extension syncs your Chrome and Firefox bookmarks, one source per browser profile, and can send all your open tabs to your library. A bookmarks.html file you import becomes a source of its own, next to the rest. Saves, tabs and bookmarks all open in the same reader, with the list on the left and the article on the right. The Cleanup Center helps you clear out duplicates, untagged links, empty folders, stale tabs, and bookmarks you deleted in the browser. If you only want to look through a bookmarks file, the bookmark explorer opens any browser's bookmarks.html without an account.

What it doesn't do. There are no mobile apps, no highlights, no offline reading, and no full-text search. If you're coming from Pocket, the Pocket alternative page sets out what carries over and what doesn't. Everything that ships is listed in the changelog.

Who builds Reading Rewind

Reading Rewind is built and run by an independent developer: one person designs it, writes the code, and runs it.

How Reading Rewind is funded

Reading Rewind is free to use today, and you don't need a credit card. There are no ads, your data isn't sold, and for now the developer covers the running costs. Paid features may come later; pricing hasn't been decided.

The privacy policy explains what is stored and why, and the terms cover the rest.

Ready to try it? Start your free reading list.