Meet Linger — Save articles. Listen offline. Always free

Productivity

Linger

Save articles. Listen offline. Always free.

Free. All features included.

No subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this post works the moment you install it.

What Linger does

Free. All features included. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers — everything works the moment you install it.

Pocket is gone. Linger is the calm replacement.

Save any article from Safari, Mail, Messages, or X with the share sheet. Linger strips out the ads, popups, and clutter — leaving just the words. Then it reads them to you, out loud, in a clear natural voice — entirely on your device, with no subscription, no account, and no internet connection required for playback.

— Save from anywhere: iOS share-sheet extension. Share a URL → it lands in your Linger queue. — Clean reader view: Mercury-style article extraction renders any web page as beautiful, distraction-free text. Sans or serif, light, dark, or sepia, your line-height and width. — Listen offline: Apple's neural voices (Ava, Zoe, and others) read articles to you. Background playback. Lock-screen controls. Variable speed 0.5x–2x. Resume where you left off. — Highlight + notes: tap-hold to highlight a passage. Add a note. All stored on your device. — Search your library: full-text search across every saved article. — Privacy by default: no account, no email, no analytics SDK, no third-party tracker. Articles are fetched once via your network, parsed on-device, and never uploaded. We don't have a server. — iCloud sync (optional): private CloudKit container if you turn it on. Your library follows your iCloud, never us.

Linger is free. Forever. No subscription. Built by All Things AI to give Pocket users somewhere calm to land.

A look inside

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What's in it

Save with the share sheet — Linger registers an iOS share extension. From Safari, Mail, Messages, X, or any app, tap Share → Linger. The URL is queued; the article is fetched and parsed in the background.
Distraction-free reader — WKWebView renders article content with reader-mode JavaScript extraction. Strip nav, sidebars, ads. Customize font (sans/serif), size, line-height, width, and theme (light/dark/sepia).
Listen offline — AVSpeechSynthesizer plays any saved article aloud using Apple's neural voices. Works offline once the voice is downloaded. Background playback. Lock-screen controls. Speed 0.5x–2x. Resume from where you stopped.
Highlight + notes — Tap-hold a passage → highlight it. Optionally attach a note. All highlights are searchable and stored on-device.
Library — Chronological list of saved articles with thumbnail, title, source, reading-time estimate, and progress indicator. Filter to unread / archived / favorited. Search across titles + body.
Privacy by default — No account, no email, no analytics SDK, no third-party tracker. Articles are fetched via your network, parsed on-device. Optional iCloud sync uses your private CloudKit container; we don't have access.

Why we built it

Mozilla shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Raindrop and GoodLinks are bookmark-first, not reading-first, and don't read articles aloud. Apple's Safari has 'Listen to Page' but no queue, library, or curation. There is no free, beaut…

What makes it different

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Who it's for

People who have tried every productivity app and bounced off the noise. If you want something calm, fast, and free, this is for you.

In one line: Save articles. Listen offline. Always free.

Try it

Head to the Linger app page for the full feature list, info table, and support links.

Found a bug, have a feature request, or want to share how you use Linger? Comments are open below — anonymous is fine.