OpenDMG
Reading List Export icon

Reading List Export for Mac

Exports your Safari Reading List as Markdown, a bookmarks file for read-later apps and an Instapaper-style CSV.

By stanczykwyatt. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Reading List Export at a glance

Version
0.1.0
Released
3 November 2026
Download size
1.0 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
stanczykwyatt
GitHub stars
0

About Reading List Export

Export your Safari Reading List on your Mac as Markdown, a bookmarks file for Linkding and Karakeep, and an Instapaper-style CSV for Wallabag and Readwise Reader. Free, read-only, no internet access.

Screenshots

Reading List Export screenshot 1Reading List Export screenshot 2Reading List Export screenshot 3

How to install Reading List Export on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Reading List Export and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.1.0 from stanczykwyatt's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Reading List Export show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Reading-List-Export.zip (1.0 MB).

What is new in Reading List Export 0.1.0

First release of Reading List Export, a free, open-source menu bar app that exports your Safari Reading List as Markdown, bookmarks and CSV.

**Early release:** the reader was checked against Safari's real Reading List file from the command line tool and a sandboxed test build, but the signed app hasn't been tried with Full Disk Access turned on yet. If anything's off, please open an issue.

- **Every page in your Reading List,** read or unread, with its title, address, site, the date you added it and the preview Safari saved.
- **A bookmarks file** that Linkding, Karakeep, Raindrop.io and browsers import. Linkding keeps your unread pages unread.
- **An Instapaper-style CSV** for Wallabag's and Readwise Reader's Instapaper import, with read pages archived.
- **A Markdown checklist:** unread pages as open tasks, read ones checked off, Obsidian-friendly. JSON and a note for each page too, if you want them.
- **Only what's new on each run,** and pages stay in the export even after you clear them from Safari.
- **Never overwrites your edits,** and never touches files that were already in the folder.
- **Search your Reading List** by any word, filter to unread or read, and copy links.
- **Automatic export,** off until you turn it on, and the `reading-list-export` command line tool.
…

More Menu Bar and Notch apps

All Menu Bar and Notch apps