Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. If you used it to save articles, tweets, and videos for later, you need a new home. The right replacement depends on how you actually used Pocket: as a read-later queue, as a bookmark archive, or as a workflow that fed other tools.
Pocket has shut down, so anyone still using it needs a new home. The tools below handle the workflows Pocket covered, with pros and cons worth knowing before you pick.
These 10 tools match Pocket closely on read-later use cases. Ordered by best match: category overlap, shared features, and direct competitive positioning. Keep shows up where it ranks, we don't push it up the list.
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
A classic read-later app with clean text extraction and distraction-free reading.
Free, paid from $5.99/mo
A curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.
Free, paid from $3/mo
Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.
Free, paid from $8.25/mo
Save and search X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, and Mastodon bookmarks in one place.
Free, paid from $10/mo
A powerful RSS reader for power users, researchers, and journalists.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
Here's how Pocket lines up against the top alternatives across the capabilities that usually decide a switch. Keep is included as a column so you can see where a markdown-for-agents approach fits.
| Feature | Readwise Reader | Instapaper | Matter | Keep | Raindrop | Evernote | Dewey | Inoreader | Feedly | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome | Chrome, Firefox | Bookmarklet | |||
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | ||
| Save from email | Send-to-Pocket address | Per-user Reader address | Unique save-by-email address | Premium | Forward to in.keep.md | Forwarding address | |||||
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | Quoteshots + X integration | Partial | Native X bookmarks sync | Partial | ||||||
| Save YouTube videos | URL only | With transcript highlighting | URL only | Premium; with transcription | With transcripts | Partial | Via channel feed | Via channel feed | Partial | ||
| Save GitHub stars | |||||||||||
| Save PDFs | Premium | Converted to markdown | Full-text search Pro only | ||||||||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | PDF, EPUB, images, video | Attachments | |||||||
| Save audio files | Podcast episodes | With Whisper transcription | mp3, wav, aiff, flac | Voice memos | |||||||
| Save via API | |||||||||||
| Auto-sync sources | |||||||||||
| RSS auto-sync | Premium | Via IFTTT applet | Outputs RSS of your bookmarks | Partial | |||||||
| YouTube channel sync | Via RSS | ||||||||||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto sync on Pro | ||||||||||
| GitHub stars sync | |||||||||||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Premium | Partial | Pro | Pro | Partial | |||||
| Library and reading | |||||||||||
| Reader view | Partial | ||||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | |||||||||
| Full-text search | Premium | Premium | Premium | Pro | Supporter+ | Pro | Partial | ||||
| Semantic / AI search | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (Stella) | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | |||||||
| Highlights | Premium | Unlimited on Premium | Partial | ||||||||
| Notes | Partial | Unlimited on Premium | |||||||||
| Tags | Boards | ||||||||||
| Collections | Folders | Folders | Partial | Nested | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | Folders | Boards | Magazines | ||
| Public sharing | Partial | Quoteshots for individual quotes | Partial | Public folders (Pro) | Public magazines | ||||||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | Partial | Pro | Pro | |||||||
| AI and agents | |||||||||||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | ||||||||||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | ||||||||||
| MCP server | Official server | ||||||||||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | ||||||||||
| Claude Code skill | |||||||||||
| AI summaries | Ghostreader | Premium (AI Co-Reader) | AI tagging on capture | Pro (Stella) | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | AI auto-tagging | Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | |||
| Public API | |||||||||||
| Import and export | |||||||||||
| OPML import / export | |||||||||||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | ||||||||||
| Instapaper import | |||||||||||
| CSV / JSON export | Via API | HTML + CSV | Partial | HTML, CSV, TXT only | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | Partial | ||||
| Send to Kindle | Premium | Premium | Pro |
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.
Mozilla announced the shutdown in May 2025. The apps and extensions stopped working on July 8, 2025, and all user data was deleted on November 12, 2025.
Only if you exported before November 12, 2025. Pocket offered HTML and CSV exports from your account settings, and most alternatives (Instapaper, Raindrop, Readwise Reader, Matter, Keep) accept those files directly.
Raindrop has a genuinely usable free tier with unlimited saves, tags, and highlights. Instapaper's free tier is also solid and covers the core save-and-read workflow. Inoreader is free up to 150 feeds but isn't designed for ad-hoc saving.
Instapaper. Same simple save-for-later model, similar clean reader view, stable apps across iOS, Android, and web. It's the most direct replacement in experience.
Readwise Reader and Raindrop both have strong iOS and Android apps. Instapaper is the classic choice for pure mobile read-later. Matter is iOS-first with good iPad support.
Raindrop Pro at $3/month is the cheapest paid option. Instapaper Premium at $5.99/month covers more read-later features. Matter Premium is $8/month, Readwise Reader is $9.99-$12.99/month, and Keep Pro is $10/month.
Readwise Reader has Ghostreader (summaries, Q&A, translations). Matter Premium has an AI Co-Reader. Raindrop Pro includes the Stella AI assistant. Keep gives you a markdown URL per item that Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients can read directly.
Yes. Instapaper Premium, Readwise Reader, and Matter Premium all have Kindle delivery. This is one of the features Pocket never had.
Readwise Reader, Raindrop, Instapaper, and Keep all publish REST APIs. Raindrop and Keep also have official MCP servers for AI tool integration.
Readwise Reader has native RSS subscription. Matter Premium adds RSS. Raindrop can import via IFTTT. Instapaper does not handle RSS. Keep syncs RSS as one of several sources.