In May 2025, Mozilla announced the impending shutdown of its popular read-it-later app, Pocket, which it had acquired in 2017 for an undisclosed sum. Pocket has played a crucial role in helping users save and discover millions of articles, but Mozilla cited changing web browsing behaviors as the reason for reallocating its resources to other projects. Users of Pocket will have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other important items, such as lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights. This closure means that users will need to find alternative apps to continue building their reading lists.
To ease the transition for Pocket users, we've compiled a list of alternative read-it-later apps to consider:
Matter is a read-it-later app backed by Google Ventures, offering an iOS app along with browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. This innovative app allows users to listen to articles and transcribe their favorite podcasts. While the app is free to use, a subscription of $79.99 per year unlocks premium features, including enhanced transcriptions for podcasts and YouTube videos, adjustable reading speeds, and integrations with other apps like notes applications, Gmail, and Kindle. Notably, in March 2025, Matter introduced an AI-powered co-reader that answers user questions while reading. The co-founder, Ben Springwater, invites Pocket users to email him at ben@getmatter.com for a personal discount link, with plans to offer this discount within the app soon.
Raindrop.io serves as an alternative bookmark manager for web browsers, featuring mobile apps for iOS and Android that allow users to read their saved articles or PDFs at any time. The free version offers unlimited bookmark saving and integrations with tools like Zapier and IFTTT. A subscription of $33 per year grants users AI-powered suggestions for content organization, full text search, reminders for bookmarks, and a file upload limit of 10GB per month.
Paperspan is a straightforward app that offers a reading list accessible across devices. It allows users to add notes and features text-to-speech functionality. The app is free, but users can upgrade to an $8.99 per month subscription for advanced search capabilities, playlist creation, reading stats, and Kindle integration. However, it’s worth noting that Paperspan has not seen recent updates, which could raise concerns about its long-term viability.
Readwise launched its Reader app in 2021, allowing users to import various content types, including RSS feeds, YouTube videos, and Twitter threads. The app excels in offering annotation features and supports offline text search and an AI assistant. Users can integrate Readwise with knowledge management apps like Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, and Logseq. The app is free for a 30-day trial, after which a $9.99 per month subscription is required. Readwise allows Pocket users to save their entire Pocket archive into Reader, providing capabilities that Pocket lacked.
DoubleMemory is an indie app tailored for the Apple ecosystem, featuring native apps for Mac and iOS. On Mac, users can save any link or content by pressing Cmd + C twice, displaying the content in a Pinterest-style tile format. The app enables offline reading and searching through text, notes, and tags, and doesn’t require an account to use. DoubleMemory offers a free version with in-app purchases, including a $3.99 monthly subscription or an annual subscription of $17.99.
Recall functions as both a browser extension and mobile app, allowing users to save a variety of content, including articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos. Unlike traditional read-it-later apps, Recall employs AI to summarize content, categorize it, and resurface it based on user learning interests. The service is free for up to 10 AI-generated summaries, with a subscription of $7 per month available for unlimited AI summaries and additional features.
Wallabag is an open-source read-it-later app available across browsers and mobile devices. It features a reader mode for comfortable reading and supports data imports from services like Pocket and Instapaper. Users can also opt for an €11 per year hosted subscription.
Readeck is an open-source web app designed for organizing web content for later viewing. It allows users to highlight text, export articles to e-book format, and save video transcripts. Users can save bookmarks while browsing through a browser extension, and while it can be self-hosted, a hosted version is expected to launch in 2025, along with a mobile app.
Obsidian’s Web Clipper enables users to highlight and capture web pages with a simple click on its browser extension. Custom templates allow for tailored saving, including citations for articles and ingredients for recipes. As an open-source tool, it is free to use, allowing users to save various content types into the Obsidian note-taking app.
Karakeep is a bookmarking app that lets users save links, notes, and images while utilizing AI for automatic tagging, enhancing retrieval speed. It features support for lists, bulk actions, dark mode, and full-text search. This open-source app is available on iOS and Android, as well as through browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
Dewey operates as a comprehensive app for saving and organizing web links, videos, and images, including posts from social media platforms. It offers built-in organizational tools like folders and tags, AI bulk tagging, keyboard shortcuts, Notion syncing, export options, and personalized RSS feeds. Dewey has multiple plans starting at $7.50 per month, with annual payments offering a discount of $30.
This list is not exhaustive, and we will continue to update it as we discover more tools to assist users transitioning from Pocket.
