Key facts
- Mozilla is shutting down its read-it-later app Pocket in May 2025.
- Users had until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and data.
- Matter, an iOS app with browser extensions, offers an AI co-reader and article listening features.
- Instapaper, one of the oldest read-it-later apps, allows unlimited article saving and offers premium features.
- Raindrop.io functions as a bookmark manager with read-it-later capabilities and AI organization suggestions.
- Other alternatives include Plinky, Paperspan, Readwise Reader, DoubleMemory, Recall, Wallabag, and Readeck, many with AI integrations.
Mozilla announced in May 2025 that it would be shutting down its popular read-it-later application, Pocket, which it acquired in 2017. The company cited changing web browsing habits as the reason for the closure. This decision has led to increased interest and adoption of alternative services that allow users to save and organize online content for later consumption.
Pocket users were given a deadline of October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles, lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights. This has prompted many users to seek out new tools to manage their saved content.
Several alternatives are gaining traction, including Matter, which offers an iOS app and browser extensions. Matter provides features such as article listening and, since March 2025, an AI-powered co-reader. While the app is free, a $79.99 annual subscription unlocks advanced features like improved transcriptions and additional integrations.
Instapaper, founded in 2008, is another long-standing option available on iOS and Android, allowing users to save unlimited articles and videos for free. Its premium subscription, at $59.99 per year, offers features like note-taking, permanent archiving, text-to-speech playlists, and Kindle integration. Instapaper also facilitated imports for Pocket users, offering them a three-month free trial of its premium service.
Raindrop.io primarily functions as a bookmark manager but also allows users to read saved articles and PDFs via its mobile apps. The free version includes unlimited bookmark saving and integrations, while a $33 annual subscription adds AI-powered organization suggestions, full text search, and other enhancements.
Other emerging alternatives include Plinky, created by a former Twitter engineer, which allows users to save and categorize various types of links. Paperspan offers a simple cross-device reading list with text-to-speech functionality. Readwise Reader, launched in 2021, integrates with the Readwise annotation tool and supports importing various content types, including RSS feeds and Twitter threads, with AI assistance. DoubleMemory is an indie app for the Apple ecosystem that saves content in a tile format and syncs via iCloud. Recall uses AI to summarize and categorize saved web content, offering a spaced repetition review system. Wallabag is an open-source option available on multiple platforms, supporting data export in various formats. Readeck is another open-source web app designed for organizing web content, with browser extension support and plans for a mobile app and hosted version. Obsidian's web clipping service allows users to capture and save web pages via a browser extension.