Finally read the things you saved.
Texthyper keeps everything you meant to read: saved from any browser, stripped to the words, archived for good. Highlight as you go and pick up where you left off, on every device.
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What Happened to the Long Afternoon
An argument for boredom, for the hours that belong to nobody, and for the kind of attention you can only grow slowly.
How to Do Great Work
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?
A Brief History of the Deep Space Network
Three stations, placed a third of the planet apart, so that something is always listening.
Three steps, and the third one is the whole point.
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Save
One click in the browser, a share from your phone, or paste a link with ⌘K. The extension sends the page as you see it, so what you can read, we can save.
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Keep
The article, its images and the original page are archived the moment you save. If the source disappears, yours doesn't. Full text search over all of it.
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Read
Only the words, set in type made for reading. Chrome that gets out of the way, four themes, your fonts. Highlights and progress follow you everywhere.
Read like it's paper. Mark it up like it's yours.
Select a sentence and it's a highlight. Add a thought and it's a note. Everything collects on one Notes page, searchable, and stays anchored to the text even when the article changes underneath it.
- Light, sepia, dark and black themes with auto dark
- Literata, Charter, Georgia, Atkinson Hyperlegible and more
- Reading position synced to the paragraph
- Keyboard for everything; ? shows the map
The Atlantic · 14 min read
What Happened to the Long Afternoon
There used to be a kind of time that belonged to nobody. It arrived after lunch and before anything else was required of you, and it had no shape. You could lie on the floor and watch the ceiling, and the ceiling was enough.
Boredom, it turns out, was doing work. It was the compost in which the slow things grew: a long book, a friendship that didn't need a reason, an idea that took a decade to be interesting to anyone but you.
"interesting to anyone but you" — this is the whole essay.
Your reading list, on iPhone and iPad.
A native app that keeps every article on the device, so a train tunnel doesn't end the chapter. Save from Safari or any app through the share sheet. Highlights, notes and your place in the text are waiting on the web.
Save from anywhere. Read where you like.
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Chrome
Your browser
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Safari
Your browser
Coming soon
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Firefox
Your browser
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Edge
Your browser
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Brave
Your browser
Arc, Vivaldi and Opera install from the Chrome Web Store. Any other browser: drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar (how it works).
Save to TexthyperBrowser extension
Chrome, Edge, Firefox and friends. Saves the page as rendered, including what's behind a login.
Bookmarklet
A one-line bookmark for any browser we don't have an extension for yet.
Paste a link
⌘K on the web, type or paste a URL, done. It extracts in the background.
iPhone and iPad
A native app with the share sheet, offline reading and highlights. In public beta, built on the same API.
Join the TestFlight beta →-
Pocket
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Instapaper
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Readwise Reader
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Matter
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Omnivore
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GoodLinks
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wallabag
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Raindrop.io
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Safari Reading List
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Chrome
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Firefox
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Kindle
Or any CSV with a URL column, or a plain list of links. Highlights come along where the export has them, and pages you already saved are skipped.
Built on a few stubborn ideas.
- Your archive is the product.
- Every article is kept in full the day you save it, not as a premium feature but as the point. It's yours, and the API hands it back in plain JSON.
- Quiet by default.
- No feeds, no recommendations, no badges begging for attention. The interface is type on a page; the list is yours alone.
- Open API.
- Everything the apps do goes through a documented JSON API with tokens you control. Build your own thing on top; we'll keep the sync cursor honest.
- Works with Claude, Cursor and any MCP client.
- A built-in MCP server lets your AI assistant search your library, read what you saved and highlight passages, with a token you can revoke in Settings. Set it up →
Made by Marc.
Hi, I'm Marc Köhlbrugge, and I make Texthyper on my own. The read-it-later apps I used lost articles when their sites went away, and made the long ones too easy to put off. So Texthyper keeps a full copy of everything the moment you save it, and gives the long pieces a quiet page worth sitting down with.
Start a quieter reading list.
Free for the first 1,000 accounts, for good. Everything that's free today stays free for them.
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