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Read It Later, yet an other GTK & Rust application

2020-02-04

Late last year, I wanted to find an application that I can try the Rust async features with it. I started looking for a service that had a nice Rust API wrapper already and I started prototyping Read It Later on top of wallabag-rs.

Read It Later, is a well designed Wallabag client.  It’s built with Rust, GTK & libhandy on the UI side. It’s fully adaptive which makes it Linux on pocket ready and also comes with a beautiful icon designed by Tobias Bernard.

App Icon Preview

Screenshot taken using App Icon Preview

It allows you to do the basic things:

  • Login/Logout/Sync
  • Add/Favorite/Archive/Delete an article
  • Dark Mode Reader
  • Adaptive UI

Login View

Articles View

Article View

Adaptive View

You can grab it already from Flathub at https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.belmoussaoui.ReadItLater. If you would like to contribute, the source code is available at https://gitlab.gnome.org/bilelmoussaoui/read-it-later

So far, writing apps with GTK & Rust have been a fun experience. GNOME Builder & Flatpak made the developer experience smooth 🙂