Read-later app Pocket is shutting down, and I’m super sad about it

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.
Content material exports could be finished till October 8, 2025.
The app has already been pulled from app shops.

Mozilla has revealed that it is shutting down its extraordinarily helpful

read-later app Pocket
. Based on the corporate, Pocket will cease operations on July eighth, 2025 in order that Mozilla can focus its “assets into tasks that higher match their shopping habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that really means, although.

After that date, you may solely be capable to export saves till October eighth, 2025.

Mozilla
says it can then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the means of being canceled and refunds will likely be despatched to subscribers at present on Pocket’s annual plan. Pocket’s net extension and app have already been eliminated as of Might twenty second, 2025, although if you have already got the app in your cellphone, it can proceed to perform. You may additionally nonetheless be capable to re-download the app till October eighth, 2025 so long as you’ve got already downloaded it earlier than.

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Mozilla says the web does not want read-later apps anymore

Mozilla says that it is shutting down Pocket as a result of “the best way individuals save and eat content material on the internet has developed.” My assumption is that regardless of Pocket’s recognition with a small subset, use has dropped considerably over the previous few years, particularly as

Google’s AI Search
overview continues to slowly destroy the web. Together with Pocket, Mozilla can also be shutting down its pretend evaluations detector, Fakespot.

”This shift permits us to form the subsequent period of the web — with instruments like vertical tabs, sensible search and extra AI-powered options on the best way,” writes Mozilla in a latest blog post in regards to the closure.

I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, method again when it was nonetheless referred to as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Read it Later in 2017). It has been a fantastic instrument for saving tales all through the day to learn within the night, whether or not on my iPad and even my Kobo (the e-reader has had direct integration with the app for years). The Firefox plugin has additionally been extraordinarily helpful, giving me the near-instant skill to avoid wasting any story I would like when I haven’t got the time to learn it through the work day.

…till then, I am going to get pleasure from the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.

It should be actually bizarre for the app to not be round anymore in just a few weeks, particularly since I’ve it put in throughout almost each machine I take advantage of, together with my MacBook Professional, iPhone 16 Professional, Kobo Libra Color, and the myriad of smartphone assessment gadgets I’ve floating round my home.

I am going to possible make the soar to Instapaper sooner or later (I’ve obscure reminiscences of utilizing the read-later app method again in 2008), however till then, I am going to get pleasure from the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.