Save it now.
Read it properly later.

How it works

• Paste a link. Lantern fetches the page and pulls out the article: the headline, the byline, the text and the pictures that belong to it.
• Everything else is dropped. Ads, newsletter interstitials, cookie walls, share rails, related-content grids and autoplaying video do not make it through.
• Read it whenever. One serif, one column, a comfortable line length, light or dark, and five steps of text size.
• Stop anywhere. Your place is kept, so a long piece started on a phone continues on a laptop where you left off.

Why not just leave the tab open

Because forty open tabs is not a reading list, it is a low hum of guilt that also eats your battery. And because a tab still contains the page as the publisher built it: the popup that appears at 30% scroll, the video that starts talking, the cookie banner you already dismissed on another device.

A saved article has neither problem. It is a finite list, and each item in it is just the words.

What Lantern deliberately does not do

There are no tags, no folders and no nested collections, because retrieval is what search and archive are for and every read later app that grew a taxonomy became a filing cabinet nobody opens. There is no RSS, because a feed is an infinite stream and this is meant to be a short list you can finish. There are no AI summaries, because a summary is a way of not reading something.

Where it came from

Pocket, the app most people meant when they said read later, shut down in 2025, and Omnivore closed before it. The tools left standing mostly answer with more features and a subscription. Lantern answers with a reading page.

If you are arriving from one of those, start with the Pocket page. If you are weighing the paid options, there is Readwise Reader and Instapaper.