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Read it like Pocket.Browse it like Pinterest.Own it forever.

Amber saves every article you send it as plain files on your own device — the text as markdown, a full copy of the original page, and the images. No account. No cloud in the middle. Nothing anyone can switch off.

Know when it ships

Amber is being built now, Android first. Leave your email and you’ll hear from us once — when there’s something real to install.

One email when it ships. No newsletter, no drip campaign, no sharing your address. Unsubscribe in one click.

Save anything

Share a link from any app. Amber fetches the article, the images and a complete snapshot of the original page, then keeps working when you’re offline or the page goes down.

Read it properly

A clean reader view that remembers your text size, your light or dark, and where you stopped. Tag it, search the full text, archive it when you’re done.

It’s just files

Every save is a folder you can open in any file manager, holding markdown any editor can read. Amber could vanish tomorrow and your library would still open.

This is the whole format

Not an export you have to trust — the way Amber stores your library, all the time. Point any file manager at the folder and it’s all right there.

Library/  saves/    2026-03-14-a-city-of-glass/      item.md                    # the article, as markdown      original.html              # the page itself, kept offline      assets/                    # every image, stored locally  boards.json                    # your boards and their covers  meta/                          # sync bookkeeping

Boards and folder sync arrive after the first Android release. The file layout is settled now so that nothing you save early has to be migrated later.

What Amber will never do

These five rules were written before any code was, and they outrank any feature idea — including the profitable ones.

  1. Files are the product

    Every save is a human-readable file on your device. If a feature only works on data that isn’t in those files, it doesn’t ship.

  2. The free tier never shrinks

    Saving, reading, boards, tags, search, offline copies, import, export and syncing through your own cloud folder are free forever, and need no account.

  3. Your sync, your choice

    iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox all plug into the same interface. If we ever run our own sync, it gets no special privileges in the app.

  4. No phone-home

    The app makes no network calls except fetching the pages you asked for. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash pings. The F-Droid build will be verifiably clean.

  5. Leaving is easy

    A full export of everything, in one tap, whenever you want. We advertise this rather than bury it.

Where it’s at

Phase 1 is the reader, on Android: save from the share sheet, bring your old library in, read it offline. That’s what’s being built right now, and there is nothing to install yet — which is what the list above is for. iOS, a desktop app and a browser extension come after it.

Amber will be open source under the GPL. The repository goes public alongside the first build.

One day there will be an optional paid sync service for people who don’t want to wire up a cloud folder themselves. Everything listed above stays free when it arrives. That’s the whole business model, and you’re reading all of it.

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