Omphalis

Omphalis is a reading and listening app for people who save things because they matter. Articles, PDFs, EPUBs, YouTube talks, podcasts, newsletters, and your own voice notes go into one library, where each item is cleaned up, structured, and kept returnable, so what you read and hear stays useful months later. What it does. Clean reading: every source becomes the same calm, readable page. Web boilerplate is stripped, PDF layouts (including two-column academic papers) are untangled, and podcasts and videos are transcribed. Structure: each item gets a map of its 8 to 12 key moments, so you can see the shape of a long piece before you commit to it, and jump straight back to the part that mattered. Annotations: hard terms and load-bearing claims get quiet inline notes (definitions, sources, context) so you do not have to leave the page to look something up. They appear as dotted underlines, only when the system is confident, and never interrupt the reading. Listen: any saved item can be played as natural-sounding audio, true to the text, so a long read can become your commute listening. Connections: as your library grows, related items surface on their own. The paper you read last spring meets the book you are reading now, and a voice note lands next to the article it belongs with. Courses: build a structured course on a topic from openly licensed material, credited to the sources it came from. Works with what you already use: save from the browser extension or by pasting a link, import your Pocket or read-later export (up to 50,000 items), subscribe to RSS feeds and newsletters, and export your whole library as portable Markdown at any time. Assistants and agents can connect over MCP. What it is not. It is not a summarizer built to help you skip what you saved: structure and annotations exist to help you read more deeply, not less. It is not a chat box over your files: the content itself is the surface. And it is not a bookmarking graveyard: the whole design is aimed at returning, not accumulating. Who it is for. Researchers and students working through dense papers. People with years of read-later backlog who want it to become useful instead of guilt-inducing. Podcast and lecture listeners who want more than a play history. Anyone who reads seriously and wants a library that gets clearer as it grows, not heavier. Pricing. Free plan to start. Paid plans (Pro, Premium, Scholar) scale up reading volume, audio, and library size; Scholar is built for research volume, hundreds of papers and long PDFs a month. The name. Omphalis comes from the Greek omphalos, the stone at Delphi the ancients held to mark the center of the world, the place where scattered fragments were brought and carried home as something coherent. Omphalis is that idea in modern form: not a stone, a place where what you read, hear, and note comes together.