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Bookmark.fm

Turns the articles you saved and never read into a podcast you'll actually listen to.

An abstract illustration to accompany a software project called “Bookmark.fm”. The project: Turns the articles you sa...

Bookmarks pile up. You save an article meaning to read it properly, and then you never have thirty uninterrupted minutes at a desk again. Bookmark.fm takes the article you saved and turns it into something you can listen to while commuting, walking, or washing up.

Paste a URL and you get back a podcast episode: not a robot reading the page aloud, but a conversation between a host and an expert working through the piece. The dialogue format is the whole point — a flat text-to-speech render of a long article is exhausting to listen to, while two voices trading questions holds attention the way a real podcast does.

Episodes land in a personal library with its own RSS feed, so they show up in whatever podcast app you already use rather than asking you to adopt another one. There's a bookmarklet for saving in one click, and processing takes minutes.

How it works

The pipeline is unglamorous and that's deliberate: fetch and extract the article, generate a two-voice script, synthesise the audio, publish it to a per-user feed. Each stage is a background job, so a slow fetch or a long article never blocks the request, and a failure retries the one stage that broke instead of the whole chain.

Free accounts get three episodes to try it. Paid plans run from an individual tier up to enterprise, with API access and webhook delivery for people who want to wire it into something else.