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Every app makes a trade-off.
Here’s ours, honestly.

Some tools optimize for folders, highlights or a beautiful reader. My Minute Mix optimizes for one thing: finishing what you saved in the minutes you actually have.

Pocket

Raindrop.io

Instapaper

Marqly

Readwise Reader

Matter

GoodLinks

Omnivore

Notion Web Clipper

Fit check

Which tool fits how you read? Tick what matters.

Pick an app, tick the habits you care about, and we’ll tell you straight whether My Minute Mix or the other tool is the better fit — including when it isn’t us.

Fit check3 quick questions

01 Which app are you weighing up?

02 What matters to you?

Tick as many as you like

03 Count the cost over…

04 Here’s how they stack up

My Minute MixBest match

$0over 3 years

Free, no card, unlimited saves, automatic minute-sized mixes.

Readwise Reader

$360over 3 years

$9.99/mo billed annually ($12.99/mo monthly) after 30-day trial

Based on what you ticked, My Minute Mix gives you time-boxed sessions without the $360 bill.

Full comparison: My Minute Mix vs Readwise Reader Try My Minute Mix free

Side by side

Ten tools, one table. We never filter ourselves out.

Filter by kind of tool. We stay in the table so you can always see what we don’t do, too.

Read-it-later and bookmark tools compared with My Minute Mix
Tool	Approach	Price	Minute-sized mixes	YouTube length in the mix	Folders & tags	Link
My Minute MixYou’re here	Time-first session builder	$0 (free, no card)	Yes	Yes	No, by design	Start free
Pocket	Classic read-it-later (shut down)	Shut down (2025)	No	No	Yes	vs Pocket
Raindrop.io	Visual bookmark & folder cabinet	Free / $28 yr Pro	No	No	Yes	vs Raindrop.io
Instapaper	Minimalist text parser	Free / $60 yr Premium	No	No	Yes	vs Instapaper
Marqly	AI-tagged bookmark workspace	100 free / $49–$72 yr	No	No	Yes	vs Marqly
Readwise Reader	Power-user annotator & RSS inbox	$120 / yr	No	No	Yes	vs Readwise Reader
Matter	iOS-first reader, discovery feed & audio TTS	Free / $80 yr Premium	No	No	Yes	vs Matter
GoodLinks	Local-first Apple reader	$9.99 one-time	No	No	Yes	vs GoodLinks
Omnivore	Open-source reader (shut down)	Shut down (2024)	No	No	Yes	vs Omnivore
Notion Web Clipper	Workspace database clipper	Free with Notion	No	No	Yes	vs Notion Web Clipper

No spin

Where we’re different. Where they’re better.

A comparison where we win every row would be an ad. Here’s both columns.

What we do differently

Built around your minutes

Minutes first. Pick 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes (or Custom) and get a mix that fits, built from what you already saved.
Length measured on save. Reading time for articles, runtime for YouTube videos — so the mix knows what fits. Long videos split into creator chapters or 5-minute parts, with resume.
One budget for every format. Articles, YouTube videos and threads share the same time budget. Podcast episodes are timed from the length Spotify, Apple or SoundCloud publish, when they publish one.
Free, no paid tier. No trial clock, no card, and no AI running over your saves.
No folders, on purpose. Nothing to file when you save. A library with All · Videos · Articles · Audio · Completed tabs and ⌘K search is the whole system.

Where others are ahead

What we don’t do (yet)

A reader view. We have none — saved items open on the original site. Instapaper, Matter, Readwise Reader and GoodLinks all strip the clutter.
Offline reading. We need a connection. Several readers cache the full text for planes and tunnels.
Highlights and notes. We have no highlights, so nothing to export to Obsidian or Notion. Readwise Reader is built around it.
Native mobile apps. We’re a web app plus a Chrome extension. There’s no iOS app, and Android share-sheet saving is coming soon.
Export and tags. Neither exists here yet. You can import a Pocket, Instapaper, Raindrop or browser-bookmarks export, but you can’t download your library or tag what’s in it.