Good riddance.
These companies need to stop pushing 'features' nobody cares about and then complaining they need more funding.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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well shit, i loved pocket. i guess time to make my own del.icio.us social bookmarking/saving app like i've been wanting to for years.
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The moment I setup an Omnivore account, it gets acquired and dies, the moment I switch to Pocket it's dead lol, I think I'll just move to some open source self hosted read it later app like Karakeep
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The real Pocket is the Google money they made along the way.
Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.
Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.
Let us know if you find a replacement. I have pocket on my e-reader and I’m going to miss it
Based on https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2206365/Alternatives-to-MZLA-Pocket I'm going to try Wallabag and/or Readeck. Probably the critical issue is whether you can self-host or not:
- Wallabag has a paid public instance, but Readeck you'd have to host yourself until their public service launches later this year (see https://readeck.org/en/start)
- Wallabag uses the Pocket API to transfer data (so I think you'd need to migrate before Pocket shuts down), whilst Readeck can import the file produced by a Pocket export.
- Wallabag has phone apps, whilst Readeck is browser-only (does your e-reader support a browser?)
- Readeck can export to ebook formats (so might be more useful for e-readers in this regard); not sure about Wallabag
Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?
Also @[email protected] and @[email protected]
Karakeep is another open source read it later app that is popular
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Good, they should exclusively focus on Firefox.
And how they can monetize user data?
They’re going to do that regardless.
Welp, I've taught my parents to use the fakespot site before doing a purchase on Amazon. Fakespot was never a perfect tool, but it was easy to use and better than not checking review quality at all.
Good, I never used pocket and I never heard of the other thing.
Switched to LibreWolf after seeing the message about Fakespot. It was a heavily used browser add-on I used almost religiously since 2020. Mozilla acquired them in 2023 and then did nothing with it, letting it die. I'm so tired of this bullshit.
Is it free software?
Then anyone can make the improvements they want for it.
As a Kobo user who sends articles to my Kobo via Pocket A LOT, this is some hefty bullshit.
Yup, just got a Kobo and absolutely love the Pocket integration... I hope some alternative is implemented...
An recommendations for Pocket-Alternatives? I save articles on my phone and desktop and read on my tablet…
Wallabag and Karakeep are popular open source apps
Instapaper is still going strong.
Apple also has Reading List built into safari and iPhone.
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I tried pocket a couple of times but couldn't get past the "we think you're on a phone so you're only getting three items on the screen at once". Well I'm not on a phone, I'm on a desktop with a 32" monitor and three T-Rex sized items on my screen is just terrible design.
I hope they don't remove Mozilla accounts too, I have all my bookmarks and sync between devices there. Zen browser that I use relies on this and I assume other browsers based off Firefox do too. Mozilla does not have a good managing team and they deserve to go down but there should be a transition period.
How can they sell your details if you don't register for an account?
I'd personally much rather sync was done with no account. More like synching where clients connect directly to each other with a QR code (or cut&paste code)
I’d prefer a self-hosted option. They could even do it the KeePass way where it just saves to a file and you’re responsible for syncing it.
fuck, I'm using the Pocket plugin a lot :[
not for proper bookmarking, just to mark where I was in longer videos and webcomics, 1 click on/off, easy
i used pocket once, and after several steps to activate it, i realized that it was not at all what I thought it was going to be and never touched it again