Athenana vs mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog

Reading the tables

Yes
Partly, or on a paid tier
No
Not applicable by design
Not documented publicly

The Athenana column describes what is running today. The other six were checked against those products’ own public pages and documentation on 8 September 2026, and products change — check anything you are about to decide on against the source. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Capture

How something gets in, and from where.

Capture — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Browser extension	Yes. Safari and Chrome	Yes. Chrome, Safari, Edge	Yes. all major browsers	Yes.	Yes. Chrome, Firefox, Safari	Partly, or on a paid tier. bookmarklet, or a third-party client	Partly, or on a paid tier. bookmarklet
Saves the page as you saw it — a screenshot of the rendered, signed-in page	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. visual cards, not your rendered view	Partly, or on a paid tier. permanent copy on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. the rendered text, not a picture	Partly, or on a paid tier. archive and screenshot of a public fetch	Partly, or on a paid tier. archival copy on the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. archives the page, on the paid tier
Mobile capture	Yes. iOS share-sheet Shortcut	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	Partly, or on a paid tier. third-party clients	Yes. native apps
Select text on a page and keep it as a highlight	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Notes in Markdown	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. notes, not Markdown-first	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. notes and descriptions, not Markdown	Yes. posts are Markdown
Feed subscriptions (RSS and Atom)	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. collection feeds out only	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes. the timeline
Write API	Yes. a token per client, revocable	Partly, or on a paid tier. read and write, in beta	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
Micropub — the standard posting API, so existing clients just work	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Forward an email in, or take a newsletter	Yes. forward to a secret address of your own	No.	No.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	No.	Yes. newsletter features

Import and export

Arriving with what you already have, and leaving with all of it.

Import and export — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Browser bookmarks file	Yes.	No.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.
Pocket or Instapaper export	Yes.	No.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
mymind, including screenshots, PDFs and a live sync	Yes.	Not applicable by design.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.
OPML, so a feed list comes with you	Yes.	No.	No.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Yes.
Export everything out again	Yes. CSV and Markdown	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes. Markdown, Obsidian, Notion	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.

What happens to a save

The work you would otherwise do yourself, done for you.

What happens to a save — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
The full article text is kept, so it stays findable after the page changes	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier
Text inside an image is read and searchable	Yes.	Yes.	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	No.
A summary of each item	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	No.
Tags proposed automatically	Yes. held for you to approve	Partly, or on a paid tier. applied for you	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier. applied for you	No.	No.
Duplicates noticed	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
Dead links noticed	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes. on demand	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. with the archiving tier	Not documented publicly.

Finding it again

Half a remembered phrase, months later.

Finding it again — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Full-text search	Yes. including text read out of pictures	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Partly, or on a paid tier. highlights and archived pages
Searches you keep	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes. smart filters	Partly, or on a paid tier. filtered views	Yes. smart lists	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
Nothing to file — no folders anywhere	Yes.	Yes.	No. collections first	Partly, or on a paid tier.	No. lists	Yes. tags only	Partly, or on a paid tier.
Old saves resurfaced for you	Yes. and ninety days of it kept	Yes. serendipity	No.	Yes. a daily review	No.	No.	No.
Keyboard navigation	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.

Reading

Reading the copy you kept, not the page as it is today.

Reading — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
A reader over your own archived copy, so it survives a paywall or a dead link	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a reading mode	Partly, or on a paid tier. the paid tier	Yes.	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. a cached copy, no reader	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Highlighting inside the reader	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. on the paid tier
Text to speech	No.	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	No.	No.
Reading offline	Partly, or on a paid tier. the installable web app, not a native one	Not documented publicly.	No.	Yes. native apps	Yes. native apps	No.	Not documented publicly.

Publishing, and the open web

Off to begin with. On one item at a time, at three levels.

Publishing, and the open web — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Per-item visibility — private, published at its own address, or listed publicly	Yes.	No. private only	Partly, or on a paid tier. public collections	Partly, or on a paid tier. shareable links	Partly, or on a paid tier. a read-only link, per list	Partly, or on a paid tier. public or private	Partly, or on a paid tier. per post
A personal blog built in	Yes. at an address of your own	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes. the whole product
ActivityPub — followable from Mastodon	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Webmentions	Yes.	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Yes.
Private to begin with, and your screenshots and summaries are never published	Yes.	Yes. private only	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	Partly, or on a paid tier.	No. public first

Privacy, and the shape of the thing

Who it is for, and what it does with what you give it.

Privacy, and the shape of the thing — Athenana compared with mymind, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Karakeep, Pinboard and Micro.blog.
Feature	Athenana	mymind	Raindrop.io	Readwise Reader	Karakeep	Pinboard	Micro.blog
Privacy enforced in the queries, not just hidden in the interface	Yes.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.	Partly, or on a paid tier. your own server	Not documented publicly.	Not documented publicly.
No advertising, and no mining of who you know	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.	Yes.
One person, one private library	Yes. by invitation	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. sharing features	Yes.	Partly, or on a paid tier. multi-user options	Yes.	No. social by design
Run it on your own server	Not applicable by design. declined by design	No.	No.	No.	Yes.	No.	Partly, or on a paid tier. your domain, their hosting

Where the others win

Six reasons to close this tab.

mymind

Native apps on Mac, iPhone and Android. Recognition that goes past reading text — objects, colours, brands — and a visual canvas to work on.

Raindrop.io

Native apps on every platform, and a free tier with unlimited bookmarks and collections. Nested collections, if folders are how you think, and duplicate and broken-link cleanup built in.

Readwise Reader

The deepest reading pipeline of any of these: text to speech, spaced review of your highlights, Send to Kindle, EPUB, and a newsletter inbox.

Karakeep

Self-hosting, and bring your own model. If the server has to be yours, this is the right choice and none of the rest of this page changes that.

Pinboard

Fifteen years of running without drama, and a radical simplicity nothing here matches.

Micro.blog

Blogging first, with cross-posting, podcast hosting and newsletters. If publishing is the main event rather than remembering, start there.

And where this one does

One sentence, since the tables are forty rows long.

Athenana is the only one on this page that captures a page as you saw it — signed in, past the paywall — keeps it privately searchable down to the words inside your screenshots, and can still publish any single item to the open web, with a blog, ActivityPub and Webmentions, on the days you choose to.

The long version is on the features page, written the same way: from the code rather than from a roadmap.

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