Pocket is shutting down. Best read-it-later alternatives?
Mozilla recently announced that they're shutting down Pocket. I used to use Pocket a lot back in the day, but I don't find myself regularly saving articles that much now.
For those that are still using Pocket, what are you planning to switch over to?
For others, what are your best recommendations for read-later-products?
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My vote goes to Reader, by Readwise.
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@ellenli That seems to be the main alternative I see people recommend. Is there a particular standout feature you enjoy?
Oh wow. The end of an era. I briefly competed against Pocket over a decade ago. I was even in touch with Mozilla when they were actively looking to have "read it later" solution in their browser.
I was definitely a tough business to be in, very hard to monetise, hence why we ended up pivoting.
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@dg_ Oh wow, that's interesting! And yeah, definitely the end of an era. When I was first getting into tech in 2015, I had a small blog and Pocket was the first app I wrote about. Weird to see it going away now.
I can definitely see it being a tough business to thrive in though.
Pocket has been my favorite read-it-later app for saving articles, stories, and videos to read later. I’m really going to miss how easy and dependable it has been.
I have shared the best 5 pocket alternatives here
I’ve tried Instapaper and Raindrop, Instapaper feels familiar, while Raindrop helps me organize better.
If you’ve found an app that works well for you or have tips for switching, I’d love to hear from you.
I was on the top 5% of pocket readers. I used to save an tag thousands of articles. I changed. Now i just read 4 weekly newsletters that deliver everything that i need to know. Thats all the information i need.
- Techcrunch startups newsletter
- The AI Rundown weekly
- Product Hunt weekly summary
- a16z crypto
And a bunch of podcasts and youtube. Probably podcasts are the thing that killed articles.
Got access to the early beta of Truffl. Still early in their product development, but love the product so far. Can't recommend it enough for saving and searching for old articles.
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@adam_gray6 🤫
Our product supports the need for saving favorites, but not just saving; you can save content and further read, analyze, and even create with it
https://youmind.ai
It's sad to see pocket go even though I don't use it now. But Pocket was my favourite app back in the time.
I jumped ship earlier in the year and landed on GoodLinks! Feels very native to the Apple platform and comes with a great Safari extension. Payment model is also great (no forced subscription!): https://goodlinks.app
Instapaper is still alive and well. Clean reading mode, and highlights are easy to export.
I started using Matter.
I needed an app to collect links into one view and get necessary metadata like publication date and duration to filter and sort by those properties. Raindrop comes in as a close second, but it has no functionality for getting that metadata, and Instapaper is just not as good at it, though it has more integrations.
I was pretty sad to read that Pocket was shutting down too, but I have to admit I was not using it for a while.
Instead... well, I just leave Chrome windows opened on my smartphone, during weeks or more sometimes. Messy but cross-device.
That's why I'm not replacing it.
I switched to second brain app rabrain, that not only has read-it-later features, but also turn my bookmarks into knowledge base.