Best Pocket Alternatives to Save Articles and Videos
When Mozilla announced it was shutting down the popular read-it-later app Pocket in May 2025, millions of users began searching for reliable Pocket alternatives. The company had acquired Pocket in 2017, but changing web browsing habits led to its closure.
The shutdown created a surge in demand for Pocket alternatives that could help people save online content, particularly longer articles, for later reading. While Mozilla exited the business, the move boosted adoption of several other apps like Matter, Instapaper, and Raindrop.io.
Many of these Pocket alternatives support imports from Pocket. However, users only had until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles, lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
Below are the best read-it-later Pocket alternatives picking up where Pocket left off.
Matter
Matter is a GV-backed iOS app with browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. As one of the leading Pocket alternatives, it lets you listen to articles and transcribes podcasts.
Pricing: Free; $79.99/year for Pro features like improved transcriptions, reading speed adjustments, and integrations with notes apps, Gmail, and Kindle.
Key Feature: An AI-powered co-reader (added March 2025) that answers questions while you read.
Instapaper
Founded in 2008, Instapaper is one of the oldest Pocket alternatives. It’s available on both iOS and Android and lets you save unlimited articles and videos for free.
Pricing: Free for unlimited saving; $59.99/year for Premium.
Premium Features: Notes, permanent archive, text-to-speech playlists, full-text search, and Kindle sending.
Pocket Migration: Instapaper allowed Pocket imports and offered a three-month free trial of Premium to users who migrated.
Raindrop.io
Raindrop works primarily as a bookmark manager but has mobile apps that let you read saved articles and PDFs. Among Pocket alternatives, it stands out for its organizational features.
Pricing: Free (unlimited bookmarks); $33/year for Pro.
Pro Features: AI-powered organization suggestions, full-text search, reminders, duplicate/broken link finder, and 10GB monthly file uploads.
Plinky
Former Twitter engineer Joe Fabisevich created Plinky to save and categorize any link, including articles, videos, recipes, and memes. It’s available across all Apple platforms with browser extensions.
Features: Folders, tags, and reminders to read at a specific time.
Pricing: Free (50 links, 3 folders, 5 tags); Pro at $3.99/month, $39.99/year, or one-time $159.99 for unlimited everything.
Paperspan
Paperspan offers a simple reading list across devices with note-taking and text-to-speech functionality.
Pricing: Free; $8.99/month for advanced search, playlists, reading stats, and Kindle sending.
Note: The app hasn’t been updated recently, which may raise concerns about its long-term future.
Readwise Reader
Launched in 2021, Readwise Reader stands out among Pocket alternatives for its powerful annotation features. It allows you to import RSS feeds, YouTube videos, Twitter threads, and more.
Features: Offline text search, AI assistant, and integrations with Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, and Logseq.
Pricing: 30-day free trial; $9.99/month for Readwise subscription.
Pocket Migration: Allowed full Pocket archive imports, supporting PDFs, ePubs, and features Pocket never offered.
DoubleMemory
A newer indie Pocket alternative focused on the Apple ecosystem with native Mac and iOS apps.
Saving: On Mac, press Cmd + C twice to save any link or content.
Display: Saved content appears in a Pinterest-style tile format.
Features: Offline reading, text search through notes and tags, iCloud sync (no account required).
Pricing: Free with in-app purchases; $3.99/month or $17.99/year.
Recall
Recall works as a browser extension and mobile app that saves articles, PDFs, blog posts, podcasts, Wikipedia pages, YouTube videos, and recipes.
Differentiator: Unlike traditional Pocket alternatives, Recall uses AI to automatically summarize content, categorize it, and resurface it when related to new learning topics.
Unique Feature: Spaced repetition schedule for reviewing summaries.
Pricing: Free (10 AI summaries); $7/month for unlimited AI summaries and other features.
Wallabag
Wallabag is an open-source Pocket alternative available on iOS, Android, the web, and e-readers like Kindle and Kobo.
Features: Offline reading, data export (PDF, ePUB, .mobi, JSON, CSV, TXT, HTML), highlighting, tagging, and reader mode.
Migration: Supports importing data from Pocket and Instapaper.
Pricing: Free to self-host; €11/year for a hosted subscription to fund open-source efforts.
Readeck
Open-source web app Readeck helps organize any web content you want to revisit later, including articles, videos, photos, and more.
Features: Highlighting text, exporting articles to e-book format, and saving video transcripts.
Availability: Browser extension; hosted version and mobile app in development for 2025.
Hosting: Can be self-hosted.
Obsidian Web Clipper
Obsidian’s web clipping service lets you highlight and capture web pages with a browser extension. It uses templates that customize how certain web pages are saved.
Smart Templates: Articles saved with citations and footnotes; recipes with ingredients, steps, and nutrition.
Function: Highlights text, images, and blocks for saving into the Obsidian note-taking app.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Karakeep
Karakeep’s bookmarking app saves links, notes, and images, using AI to automatically tag items for faster retrieval.
Features: Lists, bulk actions, dark mode, and full-text search.
Platforms: iOS, Android, and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Dewey
Dewey is a “save everything” app that organizes web links, videos, images, and social media posts from X, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads, Reddit, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Features: Folders, tags, AI bulk tagging, keyboard shortcuts, Notion syncing, export, and a personalized RSS feed.
Pricing: Plans start at $7.50/month (annual billing offers $30 off).
Folio
Created by former Pocket head of product Nick Chapman, Folio’s design feels familiar to former Pocket users.
Interface: Clean design with tabs for tagged, favorites, short reads, and long reads.
Adding Articles: Chrome extension, share sheet, or manual URL addition.
Features: Text-to-speech, highlights, custom fonts, and full-text search are currently free.
Platforms: Web, iOS, and Android.
Burn 451
While many Pocket alternatives encourage saving articles, Burn 451 forces you to read. You must read or tag a saved article within 24 hours, or it gets deleted.
Purpose: Prevents article hoarding.
Platforms: Web and iOS.
Extras: Offers an MCP server for AI tools to analyze reading habits.
Omphalis
Omphalis is an AI-powered “consume-it-later” app for articles, documents, podcasts, and videos.
Function: Turns media into comprehensible versions with summaries, top points, and chapter-like structures.
Pricing: Free (limited AI comprehensions); Pro from $9/month for higher limits, key moment recaps, and read-alongs.
This is not an exhaustive list of Pocket alternatives, and we will keep adding more tools as we discover them.
