Focused Tool · Apache 2.0 · Single Binary · Personal & Lifestyle

Self-hosted reading list and learning tracker

Save articles, books, and courses. Mark progress, take notes, track completion. The thing you mean to build in Notion but never actually use.

Install Quiver Free Complete — all 150 tools $29/mo

Full REST API

Every operation in Quiver is available through a JSON REST API. No SDK required — use curl, fetch, or any HTTP client.

Why self-host your reading list and learning tracker

Privacy-conscious teams often build internal reading items workflows in Notion or Google Sheets because the alternative is a $200/month SaaS contract. Quiver gives you a purpose-built tool at a fraction of the cost, running on infrastructure you already control.

A solo developer built a weekend project that needed reading items tracking. Instead of spinning up Postgres and writing an admin panel, they added Quiver as a sidecar process. The REST API covered every operation the project needed. Development time saved: roughly a full day.

Architecture

The data model stores each readingitem with 9 fields: title, author, url, type, status. All fields are queryable through the search API. The dashboard renders reading items as cards with color-coded status indicators and inline metadata. Creating, editing, and deleting records is immediate — no save-and-deploy cycle.

Endpoints

Readwise at $7.99/mo.

Self-hosted reading list and learning tracker. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your server.

Quickstart

Running in under a minute.

Download
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool quiver
Run
PORT=9910 ./quiver
Open
http://localhost:9910

Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.

Pricing

Free to start. Pro when you need it.

Free
$0
forever
  • 25 items
  • Single binary, embedded SQLite
  • Apache 2.0 — modify freely
Pro
$0.99
per month
  • Unlimited items, highlights sync, spaced repetition reminders, export
  • License key, no cloud dependency
  • Email support

License key by email. One env var.

Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.

export QUIVER_LICENSE_KEY=stockyard_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
./quiver

No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.

Part of the Stockyard family — 150 focused self-hosted tools · Complete bundle $29/mo · stockyard.dev