- You don't have to pay, you can self host.

- You may want to access your bookmarks outside of chrome.

- You may want to access your bookmarks when you are not in a safe machine.

- You may want an API for your bookmarks.

- You may not be using chrome.

- You may care about your privacy and want to split the data stack about you among as many providers as possible.

> Self host

That's more expensive than the 12 Euro when you factor in the time I would have to spend to do that.

> Outside of Chrome

Ok, substitute Chrome for any browser. How is this better than reading the saved webpage off of a hard disk?

> Not in a safe machine

If the machine is not safe, why am I using it at all?

> API

To do what, exactly?

> may not be using Chrome

Every browser now has a "Save webpage, complete" feature. It's not a Chrome thing.

> privacy

There's nothing more private than my hard disk.

You might have missed the point. This allows you to share saved webpages accross machines. The save webpage, complete feature saves it to your hard drive, locally. What I want is to be able to save pages from my desktop, and read them from my android phone.

I definitely missed the point; that's why I asked what the point is.

Thank you for clarifying that the thing you want that this software provides is the ability to synchronize saved content across multiple devices of different platforms.

> There's nothing more private than my hard disk. > Uploads bookmarks to cloud

I don't upload my bookmarks to cloud.

Ok, so you disabled that in Chrome?

But you have to admit those are all valid use-cases for Wallabag.

One reason: portability. If you use multiple devices but aren’t using Chrome on all of them then you can still access your data through the web front-end.

I'm not sure you have RSS reader in chrome or an API to access your bookmarks for example ...

Ok, let me rephrase the question: if the service provided is to save a complete webpage, why would I want to muck around with an RSS reader and an API and all of that extra effort as opposed to just saving in my browser, whichever it happens to be?

I don't just mean Chrome, either. Mobile Safari seems to have a pretty good offline pages functionality included with it.

If you are happy with Chrome, then there is no reason to change. Nevertheless being able to access his bookmarks from any computers is already a good thing to have for some people