TechCrunch listed alternatives to Pocket following the shutdown of the Mozilla service
In May 2025, Mozilla announced the shutdown of Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017. The closure of Pocket contributed to the growing popularity of other apps for saving articles, videos, and other content to view later, according to TechCrunch.
Pocket users were able to export their saved articles, lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights until October 8, 2025. Some alternatives support importing data from Pocket or other services. TechCrunch lists Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Wallabag, and Folio among these apps.
Instapaper is available on iOS and Android and allows users to save an unlimited number of articles and videos for free. A paid subscription for $59.99 per year adds notes, a permanent archive, text-to-speech, full-text search, and the ability to send content to a Kindle. Readwise Reader supports importing YouTube videos, X posts, and other content, as well as integrations with Obsidian, Notion, Evernote, and Logseq. After a 30-day trial period, access requires a Readwise subscription for $9.99 per month.
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TechCrunch also highlights Raindrop.io for organizing bookmarks. The free version of the service allows you to save an unlimited number of bookmarks, while the paid plan, priced at $33 per year, offers full-text search, reminders, detection of duplicates and broken links, and AI-powered recommendations for organizing content.
Among the open-source solutions mentioned are Wallabag, Readeck, Obsidian Web Clipper, and Karakeep. Wallabag is available as a web app, on iOS and Android, and supports Kindle and Kobo, offline reading, text highlighting, and data export in PDF, ePUB, .mobi, JSON, CSV, TXT, or HTML formats. Readeck can be self-hosted on your own server; the web app helps you save articles, videos, and photos, highlight text, and export content to e-book formats.
Some services offer AI-powered features. Matter has an AI assistant to answer questions while reading, Recall automatically summarizes and categorizes saved content, and Omphalis generates a summary, key points, and the structure of the material. TechCrunch also mentions Burn 451: if you don’t read or mark a saved article within 24 hours, the service deletes it.
