Pocket will no longer be available after July 8, 2025.
You can continue using the app and browser extensions until this date. After July 8, Pocket will move into export-only mode. Users can export saves anytime until October 8, 2025, after which user data will be permanently deleted. Why is Pocket shutting down?
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.
That’s pretty unfortunate. I think Pocket was probably one of the best services that Mozilla offered (outside of Pocket). I find it worrisome if Pocket was not a profitable avenue for them.
I used it for a while as my read-it-later but it ended up being too expensive for the usage I made of it.
I’m pretty worried about Mozilla as a whole. I feel that none of the projects I remember in the past 15 years have actually worked out. Pocket, CommonVoice, Servo, Mozilla Location Services… It’s a shame, really.
I hope for them that Relay and VPN still manage to work out though I’ve never really been interested in either unfortunately.
Good riddance to bad spamware
Yep. One of the fist things I set in about:config
extensions.pocket.enabled false
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading
It did?
we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.
So other things no one asked for?
I think it was pretty convenient for the specific use case of discovering an article you want to read later on an e-reader. Or so I hear
So they forced me to migrate my pocket account to my Mozilla account, breaking login in my Kobo reader and then 6 months later they kill it? Couldn’t just directly kill it?
O don’t use an e-reader, but I remember the stress their migration process gave me. That’s when I found omnivore. Unfortunately for me that was 3 months before they have to shut down lol. Now I’m back at Instapaper. Shouldn’t have left it for pocket way back then.
But the way people use the web has evolved
Er… nope.
Good.
For me it’s not to be true. I found it useful sharing links from time to time with my phone.
If you use Signal it has a note to self feature which is really similar functionally to something like Pocket.
My Kobo has (er, had) Pocket support, so it was nice, in theory, to save something to Pocket in FF and have it sync to my e-reader. That said, it was kind of glitchy and a lot of sites didn’t seem to work well with it (typically documentation pages for things like Oracle, etc that I’d want to save for offline reference).
Ah damn.
Do you know how to replace it (the one-click save for later)? Something that would take the imports from pocket and is well integrated within Firefox?
Pocket used to be a separate extension. Firefox bought it out and integrated it. It could go back to being a separate extension again, I suppose.
Personally, I think this is a good thing. Firefox is looking at some rocky financial times ahead and I’m happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser please. As long as the browser has a good solid framework for extensions then all this extra functionality can be provided by others just as easily.
I’m happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser
but thats not what theyre doing. im on mobile so dont have the link handy, but they mention in a different article that they think Pocket has been superseded by AI and tab groups. theyve harvested the bits of it they want and have no use for the consumer service now but its not about narrowing their focus.
They can make whatever excuses they want, as long as the result is the same. They need to narrow their focus to serve the browser and this is a step in that direction.
I have the same question! If not today, tomorrow will have a search for something similar. I will update you.
Someone in another thread mentioned Wallabag. Self hosted or paid for the service to be hosted for you.
Wallabag user here for 7 years or so, previous Pocket user, instapaper user before that. Wallabag is good. Not perfect but good. I’m a happy paying subscriber.
It has some challenges with some articles and content here and there, but overall it’s a good alternative. I think my last yearly subscription was €12, so also very affordable. It has a handy export function for individual items, and you can share individual articles publicly. Has an auto tagging functionality which is flexible and very useful.
The annotation feature is not great though, so if that’s important to you, then it might not be your jam.
