One person, paid for by the people who use it
Reservoir is built by Daksh Patel. There is no investor to satisfy, no advertising business underneath it, and no parent company that might decide read-it-later is not strategic this year.
That matters because of what happened to everyone else. Pocket had ten million libraries and was closed in 2025 because it did not fit its owner’s plans. Omnivore was acquired and shut. The most durable product in this category is a bootstrapped one that has been running for over a decade on subscriptions alone.
So Reservoir is deliberately small, and deliberately sold. Four dollars a month from people who find it useful is a business that can keep its promises about a library you intend to keep for years.
What that means in practice
Commitments that are easy to write and hard to walk back, so they are worth writing.
- Your library leaves whenever you want
- Export is one button and the format is plain. Being easy to leave is what makes asking for your library fair.
- It works without us
- The app is local-first: your saves, the search and the on-device AI keep working with no network, and would keep working if the servers went away tomorrow.
- No advertising, ever
- There is no ad SDK in the app and no analytics service. The privacy policy lists exactly what is sent, and it is short.
- Bugs are answered by the person who wrote them
- Contact us in the app or on the web, and the reply comes from the one person here.
Curious about the details? The privacy policy says what leaves your device and why, in plain words.