The best Pocket alternatives in 2026

Mozilla shut Pocket down on 8 July 2025. From that day the apps, the website and the browser extensions no longer worked. Mozilla had announced the date in May, stopped new sign-ups and store downloads on 22 May 2025, and told people they could export saves until 8 October 2025. Pocket’s help page later said the export window was closed on 12 November 2025, when account data was queued for deletion. If you did not export before then, Pocket no longer has the list.

An export, while it existed, was a file of links — CSV or HTML — not the articles. Anything whose page has since moved, died or gone behind a paywall was already unreadable in that file. There is no remaining Pocket login that will fetch those pages for you. Replacing it means deciding what the list was for.

A queue you meant to read soon: Instapaper is the closest shape. A library of links by topic: Raindrop.io. The text, filed on the day you saved it, including X posts: WHT.day. The rest of this page is that comparison. If “read it later” is the phrase you used for Pocket, the same job is described on read-it-later.

When Pocket closed, users could export a spreadsheet of URLs — and discovered how many of those URLs no longer worked. Dead links, moved pages, new paywalls. The lesson for choosing a replacement: decide whether you need a queue (things to read soon), an organiser (links filed neatly), or an archive (the content itself, kept permanently). And if what you save is mostly news, there is a fourth dimension every queue and organiser ignores: time. News only makes sense against the day it happened — a save without a date loses half its meaning. Think of a stack of newspapers kept for years: you can flip back to one day in time and see what the big events were. Only one tool below works that way — time-stamping your newsflow and filing it day by day. The apps below each serve one of these jobs well.