LOCAL-FIRST READER

ReadDeck

Your saved pages stay on this device unless you export or back them up.

Install userscript Chromium extension
PORTABLE LIBRARY

Backup & restore

Backups contain your locally saved articles and metadata. Keep them private if they include member-only content.

Browser capture

The userscript is the recommended capture method for Chrome and Firefox. The Chromium extension adds optional full-page MHTML archives.

Install userscript Download Chromium extension

Use the userscript with Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey, then choose Save this page to ReadDeck from the userscript manager menu.

Device storage

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Backup file

Download a portable .readdeck file or restore one from another device.

Google Drive

Back up to Drive's private appDataFolder. ReadDeck requests only the app-data scope and does not store a client secret or Google refresh token.

A GitHub Pages deployment can preconfigure this value from the GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID Actions variable. You can still override it locally for testing.

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