Laytr’s new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read

After Mozilla’s read-it-later app Pocket unopen down successful August, a number of alternatives popped up to instrumentality its place. But 1 newcomer, Laytr, is taking things further than offering a mode to prevention things to read. The app lets you prevention thing connected the web for aboriginal consumption, whether that’s an article, recipe, screenshot, video, PDF, bookmark, oregon tab.

The app besides automatically sorts those antithetic record types and lets you signifier them into collections it calls “cases.” It tin besides punctual you astir a saved point connected a day you choose, which could assistance you retrieve section events oregon places you privation to sojourn connected definite days, for instance. (Or possibly arsenic a mode to unit you to get done your speechmaking list!)

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What’s absorbing astir however the app works is that everything you prevention becomes a backstage archive that’s lone accessible connected your ain device. That means you don’t person to make an relationship to usage Laytr, and the developer can’t spot thing you’ve saved either. Still, you tin entree your contented crossed aggregate Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac, due to the fact that the contented syncs implicit iCloud.

The thought for Laytr comes from Ontario-area indie developer Mostafa Talaat, and is published nether his company’s name, Waitery Inc. Talaat told TechCrunch helium was inspired to physique his ain read-it-later app aft proceeding astir Pocket’s shutdown. Creating an app without a server was a privateness prime connected his part.

“What you prevention says a batch astir you, and I didn’t privation to beryllium holding it. Everything stays connected your instrumentality and successful your ain iCloud,” Talaat explained. “When you prevention something, Laytr asks erstwhile you privation it backmost and reminds you connected that day. It besides imports your aged Pocket export, truthful cipher has to commencement over,” helium added.

Because the app is privacy-focused, determination are things it won’t do, including personalizing a provender oregon utilizing AI to summarize oregon automatically tag items.

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The app is escaped to try, but limits you to 30 saved items. For afloat access, the app’s Premium tier costs either $1.99 a month, $14.99 a year, oregon a one-time $39.99 for a beingness plan. (The beingness offering is connected merchantability for $24.99 until the extremity of December.) Talaat said the the app volition absorption connected adding much languages implicit time.

If your subscription lapses, you besides won’t suffer your saves — you conscionable won’t beryllium capable to adhd much until you rejoin a program oregon get your archive backmost nether the 30-item bounds for escaped plans. You tin besides permission Laytr astatine immoderate time, arsenic the full archive tin beryllium exported arsenic a ZIP file, with readable Markdown and HTML for each item, note, tag, date, and postulation (aka “case”).