Stash
The plain answer: your saved reading was never trapped here to begin with. Two exports make that true, not just promised.
Read-it-later apps have a real history of disappearing or changing terms with short notice: Pocket shut down in July 2025, Omnivore shut down in November 2024. It's a fair question to ask before you trust a third one with years of saved reading. Here's exactly what Stash does about it.
Stash saves everything to your browser's local storage by default (no server round-trip required to read, search, or open anything you've saved). If Stash the company vanished tomorrow, the extension keeps working exactly as it does today: nothing phones home to function.
JSON backup: every field of every saved item (Settings → Back up & restore → Export backup). Built to re-import into Stash, or into whatever you migrate to next; it's a documented, readable format, not an opaque blob.
Readable HTML file: one self-contained file with an index and the full text of every saved article, openable in any browser forever, no app, no import step, no internet connection (Settings → Back up & restore → Export readable copy). This is the format built for the worst case: if you never touch Stash again, this file still opens.
If you paired a second device, your article bodies and highlights are end-to-end encrypted before they ever reach our server: we hold ciphertext we cannot read, so there's nothing sensitive of yours for a shutdown to expose. The metadata index (titles, URLs, tags) that makes search and instant-load possible is stored in plaintext on our server by design; if Stash's servers ever went dark, that index would go with them, but your on-device library and both exports above would not depend on it for a single byte.
Some competitors also let you export your data, that's not unique to Stash, and we won't claim otherwise. What we can say plainly: export here is one click, produces a format you can actually re-read without any tool, and never requires you to have paid first.
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