Free plan · 60 days of Pro included · No credit card
Built for the agentic era — add and query your queue from your AI agent or the terminal:
grove add <url> · built-in MCP server
Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Guide to PARA
The PARA method stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives...
Zettelkasten: How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive
Niklas Luhmann published 70 books and over 400 scholarly articles...
The React Native New Architecture in 2026
The new architecture is now the default. Fabric, TurboModules...
From "I'll read this later"
to knowledge that sticks.
It's 8pm. You find a great article. You save it. By morning, it's in your Obsidian vault — highlighted, annotated, filed — ready for your AI to read alongside you. Here's how that happens.
One click from
anywhere you read.
The Chrome extension lives in your toolbar. When you hit something worth saving, one click queues it — Grove runs server-side extraction to strip ads, paywalls, and clutter, leaving you just the article.
On iPhone or iPad? Use the Share Sheet. Tap the share button, tap Grove, done. It's in your queue before you've closed the tab.
Your reading queue,
distraction-free.
The iOS and iPad app shows everything waiting for you. Clean typography designed for long reads — serif headings, Lora body text, generous margins. No notifications. No noise. Just the article.
Tap and hold to highlight a passage. Add a note in the margin. Tag it so future-you (and your AI) can find it. Archive or file it when you're done — that's when the real magic starts.
Morning. It's already
in Obsidian.
The Obsidian plugin syncs automatically in the background. New articles appear
in Grove/Queue/ as plain markdown files.
After you read and file them, they move to wherever they belong in your vault —
with your highlights, tags, and notes preserved.
Your AI assistant — Claude, Obsidian AI, whatever you use — can now read everything you've read. Your knowledge base grows every time you clear your queue.
Not just articles. Everything you read.
Grove cleans each source into a reader worth reading in — and files every one into your vault as markdown.
Articles
Any web page, stripped of ads and clutter into clean, distraction-free markdown.
YouTube
Watch alongside a synced transcript — tap any line to jump. The transcript saves to your vault too.
PDFs
Read in a built-in viewer, with the text extracted so it's searchable and highlightable.
Capture a thread — the post plus its top comments — as readable markdown.
X posts & threads
Save a post or a whole thread straight from the page as you read it.
More on the way
ePub and email newsletters are next. See the roadmap →
Your files. Your rules.
Your reading list shouldn't depend on a startup's runway. Grove lives where you work — your files, in your vault.
Vault-Native Storage
Articles saved as .md files in your Obsidian vault. No proprietary database. No lock-in. Just files on your disk.
AI Filing
Learns your folder structure and suggests where each article belongs. Your AI agents can read everything you've read.
Offline Reading
Read your queue without a connection, syncing when you're back online. In active development.
Yours to Keep
Delete your account and every article, highlight, and note is still in your vault. Plain markdown, no lock-in.
Browser Extension
One-click save from Chrome. Clean extraction, no clutter.
Tags & Metadata
Tags, notes, source, and reading status land in YAML frontmatter — the fields Obsidian indexes natively.
Built for humans and agents.
Your AI can clip, curate, and cross-reference — without leaving your vault. Grove is the first read-it-later app designed for the agentic era.
MCP Server
Works with Claude, GPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. Add articles, search your library, update status.
npx @grove/mcp-server Agent Tokens
Named, auditable, revocable tokens for each agent. See what clipped what. Revoke instantly. Trust without surprise.
grv_live_... Example — agent adds research to your queue
// In your agent's MCP config
"grove":
"command": "npx @grove/mcp-server",
"env": "GROVE_TOKEN": "grv_live_..."
// Agent prompt
"Research LLM inference optimization and add the best
5 articles to my Grove queue tagged #ai-infra"Simple, honest pricing.
Every account starts with 60 days of Pro. No credit card. When the trial ends, you keep everything — it's in your vault.
- ✶ Full app — read, annotate, triage, file
- ✶ Server extraction & vault sync
- ✶ AI filing suggestions
- — 10 articles/month
- — Single device
Everything you save is yours — markdown in your vault.
- ✶ Everything in Free — unlimited
- ✶ Unlimited articles & devices
- ✶ Articles, YouTube, PDF, Reddit & X
- ✶ Agent access — MCP server & tokens
- ✶ Priority support
Founding rate: subscribe during your trial and lock in $19/yr for as long as you stay subscribed.
Why we built
Grove.
Omnivore shut down overnight. Pocket got acquired, neglected, sunset. Every time, users scrambled to export their data before the lights went off.
We think that's broken.
Your reading list shouldn't depend on a startup's runway. Your annotations shouldn't vanish because a company pivoted.
Grove is different. Your data is markdown files on your computer. If we disappear tomorrow, every article, every highlight, every note is still right there in your vault — untouched.
Your files. Your knowledge. Yours to keep.
Every reading app should
pass this test.
Most don't. Pocket didn't. Omnivore didn't. Here's Grove's:
Delete your account.
Cancel everything. Walk away.
Uninstall Grove.
Extension, app, plugin — all of it.
Open your vault.
Every article, highlight, and note is still there. Plain markdown. Yours.
Yes, Grove has a server. Here's what it does — and doesn't — hold.
The server extracts articles (stripping ads, paywalls, and clutter) and syncs your queue between your phone, your browser, and your vault. That's plumbing, and we're honest about it — you can't land articles from a mobile reader into a local vault without something in the middle.
But your library's home is your vault. Everything you save lands as markdown on your disk, and that copy answers to no one's business model. If Grove disappears tomorrow, you lose a sync pipe — not a single word of your library.
Fair questions.
The ones we'd ask, too.
Why does Grove have a server if it's "local-first"? +
Two jobs: extracting clean article text (stripping ads and clutter), and syncing your queue between your browser, phone, and vault. You can't land articles from a mobile reader into a local vault without something in the middle. The key difference from other apps: the server is a pipe, not a home. Every article lands as markdown in your vault, and that copy is canonical.
What happens to my library if Grove shuts down? +
Nothing. That's the Exit Test — it's the reason Grove exists. Your articles, highlights, and notes are plain markdown files in your vault, on your disk. If our servers vanish, you lose the sync pipe and future clipping, not one word of what you've saved. Compare that to Pocket (shut down 2025) and Omnivore (shut down 2024), where the library was the server.
Do I need an account? +
Yes — an account is what ties your extension, phone, and vault together for sync. We'd love to need less; we won't pretend otherwise. What we can promise: the account is for plumbing, your data's home is your vault, and deleting your account never touches the files on your disk.
How is this different from Readwise Reader or Matter? +
They export highlights to your vault; Grove lives there. Full articles — not just highlights — land as markdown with your annotations, tags, and reading status, filed into your folder structure. Also: $29/yr vs Readwise's $96/yr. See the full comparison.
Can my AI agents read and add to my library? +
Yes — that's a core idea. Grove ships an MCP server and named agent tokens, so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent can add articles to your queue, search what you've saved, and read the markdown in your vault. You curate; your agents draw on what you've curated.
Does it work with Notion or Logseq? +
Grove is Obsidian-first today. A Notion backend and other markdown-vault targets (Logseq, plain folders) are on the roadmap. If your notes are files, we want to land there.
Is there an iPhone app? +
Yes — iOS and iPad, currently in TestFlight beta with share-sheet saving. The Chrome extension and web reader are available to everyone today; you'll get the TestFlight link after you sign up.
What happens when my 60-day trial ends? +
You drop to the Free plan — 10 articles a month, single device. Nothing is taken away: every article you saved is already markdown in your vault, and we couldn't claw it back if we wanted to. If you subscribe during the trial, you lock in the $19/yr founding rate for as long as you stay subscribed.
Plant your grove.
Your first article can be in your vault five minutes from now — and it'll still be there in twenty years.
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