Burn 451 vs wallabag
Burn 451
burn451.cloud
wallabag
wallabag.orgSide by side
| Figure | Burn 451 | wallabag |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4/mo | €0.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 4 |
| Spec score · Read-It-Later Apps | 9.0 (#3) | 8.6 (#9) |
| Spec score · Read-later apps | 8.6 (#9) | 9.4 (#1) |
| API | The site says Burn 451 also provides a REST API. | wallabag exposes a documented API and provides OAuth-based client creation for applications and extensions. |
| Browser extension | Yes | Yes |
| Full-text search | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile apps | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The site links to an FAQ and a GitHub project, but the opened pages do not state a support channel or support hours. | The hosted service includes professional support, and its subscription page says updates, backups, and monitoring are covered. |
| What it does | Burn 451 is a read-later app that gives each saved link a 24-hour deadline and makes retained links an AI-searchable knowledge base. | wallabag saves web pages, extracts the article content, removes distracting elements and stores the result for later reading. |
Plans
wallabag
- wallabag self-hostedFree
- 3 months€4, paid once
- 1 year€11 a year
- The ❤️ subscription€30 a year
In their own words
Burn 451
Burn 451 is a read-later app that puts saved links on a schedule and turns retained items into a searchable knowledge base. A link begins in Flame for 24 hours; opening it moves it to Spark for 30 days, and users can move it to Vault for permanent retention. The free tier permits five Flame saves per day, 30 Spark items, 100 Vault items and 30 MCP requests per day. Pro costs $4.99 a month and removes limits on Spark items, Vault items and MCP requests. Pro also includes AI summaries and decision cards, voice notes, YouTube transcripts, automatic Vault tagging, full-text search and Markdown export. A 26-tool MCP server can search saved content and manage the queue in Claude, Cursor and Windsurf; the service also offers a REST API. Users can save links through the web app, Chrome extension, iOS share sheet or Safari extension for Mac. The maker describes Burn 451 as a personal tool for triaging unread links rather than maintaining an enduring bookmark archive. The Web Clipper requires a free account to sync saves across devices.