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Wallabag Hosting

Save articles for distraction-free reading with tagging, highlights, and mobile synchronization.

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  • One click deploy
  • 1 GB RAM Memory needed
  • 15 GB Disk Space Needed
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Docker image
wallabag/wallabag:latest
Default port
80
Database
mariadb

How Wallabag works

Wallabag receives an article URL, extracts the main readable content, and stores a clean copy in the user’s library. Saved entries can be marked unread, archived after reading, favourited, tagged, searched, and filtered. The original source link remains available when a reader needs to return to the live page.

Compatible browser extensions, mobile applications, and API clients can add or retrieve entries from the same server account. Highlights and annotations preserve useful passages, while imports and exports provide routes between Wallabag and supported reading or bookmark formats.

Key Wallabag features

Article extraction removes much of the surrounding navigation and advertising so the saved copy focuses on the text. Tags organise entries across subjects, and filters help users find unread, archived, starred, dated, or domain-specific material.

Annotations attach notes to selected passages. Search covers the stored library, and synchronisation lets supported clients maintain reading state around the central server. Public sharing can expose an individual article without opening the full account when the relevant option is enabled.

Wallabag vs Instapaper

Wallabag is a self-hosted read-later service that stores extracted articles, tags, annotations, and account data on infrastructure selected by the operator. Instapaper is a provider-hosted reading platform with official applications, managed synchronisation, folders, highlights, notes, text-to-speech, and speed-reading features.

Instapaper may suit readers who want a polished commercial account and vendor-maintained mobile experience without operating a server. Wallabag is a better match when control over the saved library and hosting environment matters more than access to a broader managed reading product.

Who uses Wallabag

Readers save essays and news for later, researchers tag source material by project, and students annotate passages during review. Professionals use Wallabag to create a personal queue of reports and technical articles without leaving every tab open in a browser.

Extraction quality depends on the source website. Pages behind authentication, complex paywalls, or unusual client-side rendering may save incompletely, so important entries should be checked and the original source retained when needed.

Self-hosting Wallabag: requirements and cost

Resource use grows with stored article count, extraction jobs, annotations, full-text search, imports, exports, and synchronised clients. MariaDB stores users, entries, tags, reading state, and annotations, while Redis supports the application stack. AvaHost includes MariaDB with Wallabag, but the database remains unmanaged.

Wallabag has no separate software charge for the hosted application, and the database-adjusted recommendation is Plan 2 at €5. Wallabag hosting comes with one-click setup, a reading domain, automated HTTPS, automatic application updates, and scheduled backups. Readers with a large long-term archive should watch database and stored-content growth after launch.

F.A.Q

  • Wallabag starts at €5 on Plan 2 after its MariaDB service is included in the resource recommendation. The Wallabag plan covers one-click setup, a custom domain, automated HTTPS, application updates, and scheduled backups. Saved-article volume, extraction activity, search, annotations, imports, and synchronised clients influence whether more capacity is needed.

  • AvaHost deploys MariaDB with Wallabag and connects the application automatically. Users, saved entries, tags, annotations, reading state, and configuration depend on that database, while extracted content uses persistent storage. MariaDB is included but unmanaged, so both data areas should remain consistent during updates, exports, or recovery.

  • A custom domain can be assigned to the Wallabag installation, with automated HTTPS applied after DNS points to AvaHost. Enter the final address in browser extensions and mobile clients, then verify sign-in, article saving, synchronisation, public shares, and any API tokens associated with the previous hostname.

  • Article extraction depends on the structure and access rules of the source page. Authentication walls, paywalls, automation controls, or complex client-side rendering can produce partial results. Review important saved entries, retain original links, and do not assume that a cleaned reading copy reproduces every interactive element, attachment, or later correction from the publisher.