After 17 years of service, Pocket, the beloved popular read-it-later service, will cease operations on August 21, 2025. As such, you must migrate your data to another read-it-later or bookmarking service. While there are plenty of apps to choose from, these are your five best Pocket alternatives.
5Instapaper
Instapaperis one of thebest read-it-later apps—it’s been around for more than a decade! It’s available on the web, iOS, Android, and macOS, and you can use it to save unlimited articles, web pages, and videos for later reading and viewing.
You can organize your saved content by moving it into folders. All your saved content is synced across all your devices, and you can access it even when you’re offline. Instapaper also offers permanent archiving, a paid feature that ensures your saved content remains accessible even if it disappears from the internet. You can even send articles directly to your Kindle device if you prefer reading on it.
Besides saving content, Instapaper allows you to highlight text and add notes within articles, though you’re limited to just five notes per month on the free plan. Plus, it supports integrations, too, so you’re able to automate your reading workflows by automatically saving articles from social media or RSS feeds to your reading list.
If you loved Pocket’s no-frills approach, Instapaper is a natural fit. It’s the most direct alternative to Pocket, thanks to its simplicity, excellent offline mode, and distraction-free reading experience.
4Raindrop.io
Raindrop.iois an all-in-one bookmark manager for storing and organizing all kinds of content—from web links to images, videos, and documents—that you may want to revisit later. It’s available on all major smartphone and desktop platforms, including the web, and it’s one of theapps I always install on my Android phone.
Compared to most bookmarking apps, Raindrop.io offers a generous free plan that lets you save unlimited items, use tags or organize saved content into collections (like folders), and highlight and annotate pages to revisit important bits later. You can also upload files from your device or integrate some of the popular apps and services to save their content effortlessly.
That said, if you want complete access to Raindrop.io’s feature set, you need to upgrade to the Pro plan. This plan costs $3.54 per month if billed monthly or $33.04 per year if billed annually, and it unlocks AI-powered suggestions, an increased file upload limit, and more granular organizational tools, among other things.
Unlike Pocket, Raindrop.io doesn’t have an offline reading mode. This could be a serious limitation for those who save content from the internet to read it when they’re offline.
All your content is synced across devices and available offline. you’re able to organize your saved content using tags for easy access. Similarly, you can highlight important stuff in your articles and access all your highlights in one place.
If you useknowledge management toolslike Obsidian and Notion, Matter can help you sync and store all your highlights on them. You can even export your content to Kindle for a distraction-free reading experience. Other notable Matter features include AI-generated summaries and a text-to-speech player for hands-free listening to articles.
Coming from Pocket, Matter is a great option if you only use Apple devices and want a premium bookmarking and reading experience. You may also want to choose it if you plan to build more consistent reading habits.
Matter isn’t entirely free, though, as many of its features, like Kindle export, third-party integrations, and unlimited highlighting and note-taking, require a Matter Premium subscription that costs $14.99 per month or $79.99 per year.
2Readwise Reader
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It’s all rather simple and easy to do, which is nice.
Readwise Reader allows you to highlight important content and add supporting notes. It even surfaces them through daily reviews—via email or in-app—to help you remember them. Alternatively, you may save the highlights automatically to your personal knowledge base in apps like Obsidian, Notion, orLogseq.
It also packs some useful AI features. A couple of notable ones include Ghostreader, which helps define terms, summarize passages, or get answers to questions you may have about the text, and AI chat for highlights, which lets you seek answers for your queries related to your highlights.
Recallis more than just a bookmarking or read-it-later app. It’s essentially an AI-powered knowledge management app that leverages AI to help you make better sense of your saved content. As of the time of writing, Recall is available only on Android, iOS, and the web.
you may use Recall to save articles, PDFs, podcasts, YouTube videos with transcripts, and more from anywhere on the internet. Once saved, you can generate summaries of the content with AI and get help with your questions related to the content by asking its built-in chatbot. There’s also the option to highlight important points, take notes, and save all the important information to the Recall Notebook for easier access.
Another highlight of Recall is that it automatically tags and organizes your saved content, making it easier for you to find it. It also uses a graph database that automatically links the related content to give you a visual representation of the connections between your saved content. That way, you can add the missing bits of information if required to complete your knowledge base.
As someone who used Pocket just to save content, you may find Recall overkill. Unless, of course, your needs have evolved over the years, and you want an app that helps you save varied content and build a long-lasting knowledge base around it. Mind you, at the time of writing, Recall doesn’t support bulk importing, so you’ll have to move your bookmarks from Pocket over to it manually. You do have the option to import your browser bookmarks, though.
Recall is free to use for the most part. you may use most of its core features without paying extra, albeit with limited AI summaries and chats per month. To unlock the entire AI suite of features, you’ll need to update to Recall Plus for $7 per month (billed annually).
