In testingRead it like Pocket.Browse it like Pinterest.Own it forever.
Amber saves every article you send it as plain files on your own device — the text as markdown, a full copy of the original page, and the images. No account. No cloud in the middle. Nothing anyone can switch off.
Know when it ships
Amber is built and in testing, Android first. Leave your email and you’ll hear from us once — when there’s something real to install.
Check your inbox
We’ve sent you a link to confirm your address. It expires in 48 hours. If it doesn’t arrive in a few minutes, look in spam — then tell us at hello@amber.ink.
Save anything
Share a link from any app on your phone, or click once in Chrome, Firefox or Safari — the extension saves the page exactly as you see it, including articles you’re logged in to read. Amber keeps the text, the images and a complete snapshot of the original, so it still opens offline or after the page is gone.
Read it properly
A clean reader view that remembers your text size, your light or dark, and where you stopped. Highlight a passage and add a note, tag it, search the full text, archive it when you’re done.
Pin it to a board
Things that are more picture than prose — a recipe, a chair, a room you like — save as pins. Gather them on private boards and browse your library as a wall of pictures.
It’s just files
Every save is a folder you can open in any file manager, holding markdown any editor can read. Export it all, or just your highlights, straight into an Obsidian vault. Amber could vanish tomorrow and your library would still open.
This is the whole format
Not an export you have to trust — the way Amber stores your library, all the time. Point any file manager at the folder and it’s all right there.
Library/ saves/ 2026-03-14-a-city-of-glass/ item.md # the article, as markdown original.html # the page itself, kept offline assets/ # every image, stored locally boards.json # your boards, in order meta/ # sync bookkeepingYour phone, your computer and the browser extension all read and write this same layout. Point them at one synced folder and they share one library. The format is settled, so nothing you save on day one will ever need migrating.
What Amber will never do
These five rules were written before any code was, and they outrank any feature idea — including the profitable ones.
Files are the product
Every save is a human-readable file on your device. If a feature only works on data that isn’t in those files, it doesn’t ship.
The free tier never shrinks
Saving, reading, boards, tags, search, offline copies, import, export and syncing through your own cloud folder are free forever, and need no account.
Your sync, your choice
iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox all plug into the same interface. If we ever run our own sync, it gets no special privileges in the app.
No phone-home
The app makes no network calls except fetching the pages you asked for. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash pings. The F-Droid build will be verifiably clean.
Leaving is easy
A full export of everything, in one tap, whenever you want. We advertise this rather than bury it.
Where it’s at
Amber is built and in testing: an Android app, an iPhone app, a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, and a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Android is released first, and the rest follow it. Until then there is nothing to install — which is what the list above is for.
Amber will be open source under the GPL. The repository goes public alongside the first build.
One day there will be an optional paid sync service for people who don’t want to wire up a cloud folder themselves. Everything listed above stays free when it arrives. That’s the whole business model, and you’re reading all of it.
Questions
Is Amber a Pocket alternative?
Yes. Pocket shut down in 2025, and anyone who missed the export window lost their library. Amber is built so that can’t happen again: your library is files you already have. The first Android release will import a Pocket export, along with Instapaper, Omnivore and Raindrop exports and ordinary browser bookmarks.
Is it free?
Yes. Saving, reading, boards, tags, search, offline copies, import, export and syncing through your own cloud folder are free forever and need no account. The only thing that will ever cost money is an optional sync service, for people who’d rather not set up a cloud folder themselves.
Does it work offline?
Yes. When you save an article, Amber downloads the text, the images and a complete copy of the original page to your device, so it reads the same on a plane — or after the site that published it has gone.
Where is my library stored?
In an ordinary folder on your device, as markdown and the pages’ own HTML — the layout is shown above. To use it on more than one device, you pick a folder in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or Syncthing, and every copy of Amber syncs through it. There is no Amber server in between.
Does it work with Obsidian?
Yes. Amber exports your library, or only the articles you’ve highlighted, as clean markdown straight into an Obsidian vault or any folder you choose — images, tags, highlights and notes included, with filenames in a pattern you pick.
Is it open source?
It will be, under the GPL. The repository goes public alongside the first build.
When can I install it?
Not yet. Amber is built and in testing, and there is nothing to download until it’s released. Android comes first, then the iPhone app, the desktop app and the browser extension. Leave your email at the top of this page and you’ll get one message when it’s ready.