Lantern
A charcoal lantern with an amber light beside an open book.

Read the web
by lantern light.

A free read later app for articles and PDFs. For the moments you finally get to them.

Start reading See Lantern for yourself.

Close the tabs.
Keep the good stuff.

Save a link or a PDF. Lantern gives it a home, so you can come back when you have the time and the headspace.

Lantern library showing article images, titles, excerpts, search, and saved reading progress.
The Lantern web app, shown with sample articles.

Let a good story
have your attention.

The ads, popups, and cookie banners fall away. Set the type the way you like it. Keep a passage that stays with you. Come back to where you left off.

  • 01

    A page made for reading

    Comfortable type, adjustable size, and a light or dark reading space.

  • 02

    Hold on to a good thought

    Highlight a passage and find it again in your collection.

  • 03

    Pick up where you left off

    Your saved place follows you between web and iOS.

A sample article in Lantern’s reader, with its lead image, saved highlight, and reading controls.
A sample article in the Lantern reader.

Recently shipped.

New features and fixes, as they ship. The full history lives on the updates page.

  1. PDFs that read like articles

    • Headings, paragraphs and lists in PDFs
    • Sort and narrow your highlights
    • See what is being saved

  2. Highlights that come back for a reason

    • Passages worth seeing again
    • Passages that connect
    • Spaced out sensibly
    • Tell it what helps

  3. Video, audio and sharper pictures

    • Embedded video stays in the story
    • Podcasts and audio
    • Sharper pictures

See every update

Start reading with Lantern.

Save articles and PDFs. Read without distractions.

Get started

See how saving and reading works or explore Lantern as a Pocket alternative.