Pull Read saves articles from your bookmark services as clean markdown files. Your reading archive, in a folder you control.
Self-contained menu bar app. Nothing else to install.
Add RSS feeds from Instapaper, Pinboard, Raindrop, or any bookmark service. Paste a blog URL and Pull Read auto-discovers the feed.
Articles are fetched, cleaned with Mozilla's Readability algorithm, and converted to markdown with rich metadata.
Browse in the built-in reader with highlights, notes, and AI summaries. Or open files in Obsidian, VS Code, or any editor.
Pull Read handles articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, PDFs, and tweets with specialized extractors for each.
Mozilla's Readability strips ads, nav, and clutter. What's left is the article, converted to beautiful markdown.
Select text to highlight in four colors. Add inline annotations, article-level notes, and tags to organize your thinking.
Summarize articles on demand or in batch with Claude, GPT, Gemini, or Apple Intelligence. Summaries live in the file.
Save videos with full transcripts when available. Search your video notes alongside articles.
Episode metadata, show notes, and audio links are preserved. Perfect for referencing past episodes.
AI-generated digests of your recent reading. See themes and connections across what you've saved.
Pull Read remembers what it's already processed. Failed extractions are tracked for easy retry.
Native macOS menu bar app with sync, notifications, and scheduled reviews. Self-contained binary, no dependencies.
Output to Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, or any folder. Your archive goes wherever your files go.
Pull Read works with any service that offers an RSS feed, plus direct bookmark import from browsers and services.
Light, dark, and sepia themes. Multiple fonts. Keyboard shortcuts. Highlights in four colors. Notes and tags.
Every article is a .md file with YAML frontmatter. Open them in Obsidian, Logseq, VS Code, or any text editor. No database, no vendor lock-in.
--- title: "The Case for Local-First" url: https://inkandswitch.com/local-first bookmarked: 2026-02-05T14:30:00Z domain: inkandswitch.com author: "Martin Kleppmann" feed: instapaper summary: "Explores the benefits of..." --- Cloud apps have become the default, but they come with trade-offs...
~/Dropbox/Articles/ 2026-02-06-how-to-write-better-code.md 2026-02-05-the-case-for-local-first.md 2026-02-04-understanding-webassembly.md 2026-02-03-why-rss-still-matters.md 2026-02-02-building-cli-tools-in-bun.md 2026-02-01-episode-42-the-answer.md 2026-01-31-react-server-components.md ... Date-prefixed, slugified filenames. Sorted chronologically by default. Compatible with any tool.
Free and open source. Download the macOS app or clone the repo to get started in minutes.