ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app

BlogKyle WiggersJul 4, 2026

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TechCrunch reports that AI voice company ElevenLabs hired the founders of Omnivore, an open-source read-it-later app, in an acquihire announced via Omnivore's own blog post. Omnivore's codebase was to remain open-source, but the hosted service's user data would be deleted after a November 16, 2024 export deadline, with the founders moving on to build ElevenLabs' ElevenReader product instead.

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