Keep vs Pocket
Compare Keep and Pocket side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
Keep
Save anything as Markdown your AI agents can search, including articles, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes.
Free, paid from $5/mo
- Everything you save becomes clean Markdown
- MCP and CLI search across notes and saved sources
- Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, GitHub, email, and optional X bookmarks
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 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 | ✓Automatic sync is a $5/month add-on. Manual CSV or JSON import on every plan. | × |
| 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 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 | × |
Pricing
Pocket has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Keep is free, paid from $5/mo.
Keep
- Starter
- Bookmark saves from the web app and browser extension, plus a limited note library.
- Free
- Personal
- Full-content Markdown, search, sources, automations, MCP, CLI, API, and export. Also available as a one-time lifetime purchase.
- $10/mo
- X bookmark sync
- Optional add-on. Automatic private X bookmark sync. Requires Personal.
- $5/mo
- 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 Keep does well
- Everything you save becomes clean Markdown
- MCP and CLI search across notes and saved sources
- Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, GitHub, email, and optional X bookmarks
- Full markdown export for the whole library
- Imports Pocket, Instapaper, Omnivore, Raindrop, Pinboard, Wallabag, OPML, CSV, and JSON
- Highlights from the browser extension or the reader
- Send saved items to Kindle and import My Clippings.txt
Where it falls short
- No native mobile apps yet
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 Keep
Keep saves articles, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes as clean Markdown. You can read the library yourself, search it, export it, or let Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, and other clients use the same context over MCP or CLI. Starter is free for bookmark saves and a limited note library. Personal is $10/month and adds full-content Markdown, search, sources, automations, and agent access. X bookmark sync is a $5 add-on for automatic private bookmark import.
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.