Feedly vs Pocket

Compare Feedly and Pocket side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.

Feedly

The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.

Free, paid from $6.99/mo

  • Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
  • Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
  • Team boards for collaborative research

Pocket

Shut down

Save articles, videos, and stories from any publication.

Free, paid from $4.99/mo

  • Simple, polished reading experience
  • Strong native apps across iOS, Android, and web
  • Defined the read-later category for over a decade

Feature comparison

Here's how Feedly 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.

FeatureFeedlyPocket
Capture and save
Browser extension
Mobile apps
Save from email
Save tweets
Save YouTube videos
Save GitHub stars
Save PDFs
Save files (docs, spreadsheets)
Save audio files
Save via API
Auto-sync sources
RSS auto-sync
YouTube channel sync
X bookmarks sync
GitHub stars sync
Newsletter inbox sync
Library and reading
Reader view
Offline reading
Full-text search
Semantic / AI search
Highlights
Notes
Tags
Collections
Public sharing
Full-text RSS extraction
AI and agents
Markdown export for AI agents
Bulk markdown export
MCP server
CLI tool
Claude Code skill
AI summaries
Public API
Import and export
OPML import / export
Pocket import
Instapaper import
CSV / JSON export
Send to Kindle

Pricing

Pocket has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Feedly is free, paid from $6.99/mo.

Feedly

  • Free

    Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.

    Free
  • Pro

    Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.

    $6.99/mo
  • Pro+

    Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.

    $12.99/mo
  • Enterprise

    Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.

    Custom

Pocket

  • Free

    Save unlimited items, basic offline reading.

    Free
  • Premium

    Permanent library, full-text search, unlimited highlights, suggested tags, premium fonts, ad-free.

    $4.99/mo

Strengths and weaknesses

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.

What Feedly does well

  • Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
  • Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
  • Team boards for collaborative research
  • Strong enterprise threat intelligence offering

Where it falls short

  • Most power-user features require Pro+ or Enterprise
  • Ads on the free tier
  • No structured markdown export aimed at AI agents
  • Not designed for read-later / bookmark workflows

What Pocket did well

  • Simple, polished reading experience
  • Strong native apps across iOS, Android, and web
  • Defined the read-later category for over a decade
  • Clean text extraction for most articles

Where it fell short

  • Pocket was shut down by Mozilla on July 8, 2025
  • Limited search and organization without Premium
  • No structured export for AI tools or LLM workflows
  • Proprietary lock-in; RSS and bulk sync workflows are limited

Which one should you pick?

Pocket is no longer an option

Pocket has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.

About Feedly

Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the web, with a free tier capped at 100 feeds and Pro/Pro+ plans that layer on AI summaries (Leo), team boards, web alerts, and enterprise intelligence. Pro is $6.99/mo, Pro+ is $12.99/mo (annual billing only), and Enterprise covers the threat and market intelligence verticals at custom pricing. The product has spent the last several years pivoting from consumer RSS to a serious monitoring and research platform. The free tier is still a legitimate RSS reader; the paid tiers are increasingly aimed at analysts, PR teams, and security researchers who need to track topics across thousands of sources.

About Pocket

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.

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