Compare Keep and Pocket side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Save articles, videos, and stories from any publication.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
Here's how Keep and Pocket compare across the features people actually look for. They share 8 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | |
| Save from email | Forward to in.keep.md | Send-to-Pocket address |
| Save tweets | ||
| Save YouTube videos | With transcripts | URL only |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | |
| Save audio files | With Whisper transcription | |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | ||
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto-sync on paid plans; manual import from extension export on free | |
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | ||
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | Partial | |
| Full-text search | Premium | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | Premium |
| Notes | Partial | |
| Tags | ||
| Collections | ||
| Public sharing | Partial | Partial |
| Full-text RSS extraction | ||
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | |
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | Import from and export to any OPML-compatible reader | |
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | |
| Instapaper import | CSV export with folders, archive, and starred state | |
| CSV / JSON export | Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. | |
| Send to Kindle | EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | |
| Import Kindle highlights | From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required |
Pocket has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Keep is free, paid from $10/mo.
Free
Unlimited links, browser extension, API/CLI/MCP, RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, and free imports from bookmark export files.
Plus
500 full-content items per cycle, X bookmarks, email inbox, GitHub sync, uploads, and AI features.
Pro
1,000 full-content items per cycle, everything in Plus.
Max
5,000 full-content items per cycle, everything in Pro.
Free
Save unlimited items, basic offline reading.
Premium
Permanent library, full-text search, unlimited highlights, suggested tags, premium fonts, ad-free.
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
Pocket has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.
Keep is a save-anywhere tool built around one idea: everything you capture should be available as clean markdown that an AI agent can read. Articles, tweets, YouTube videos with transcripts, GitHub stars, newsletters, RSS, and plain URLs all land in the same searchable library. People read their library in a clean in-app feed. Agents read it through the API, CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code skill, so Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other tools can work against the library directly. Auto-sync pulls from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletter inboxes on a schedule, so the library stays current without manual work. Free users can also import bookmark exports from Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, Wallabag, Safari, OPML readers, plain CSV/TSV files, and X bookmarks exported by the Keep extension. Semantic search runs across everything you've saved.
Pocket launched in 2007 as Read It Later, pioneered the modern read-later category, and was acquired by Mozilla in 2017. For nearly two decades it was the default way to save web articles and read them later on any device, with a clean reader view and optional offline access. Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. All user data was permanently deleted on November 12, 2025. The apps and extensions no longer work, and any integrations built against the Pocket API have stopped. If you still have an export file from before that date, most modern alternatives (Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Raindrop, Matter, Keep) can import it.