Pocket has shut down
Mozilla shut Pocket down in 2025. If you had years of articles in there, you’re probably looking for a new home for them.
The other options
- Instapaper: a nice reading app, with highlights and text-to-speech. Search and the best features need Premium, around 55 € a year.
- Raindrop.io: a bookmark manager. It has a reader view, but it’s made to organise links, not to read them.
- Pinboard: simple and reliable bookmarking, but no reading view and no offline reading.
Moving from Pocket
wallabag.it imports your Pocket export, with your tags and read/favourite status. Here’s the step-by-step guide. Imports are part of the subscription, not of the free trial.
What wallabag.it does
- It saves the whole article, not just the link. If the page disappears, you still have it.
- You read on the web, on Android, on iOS, and on Kobo or PocketBook e-readers. Offline too.
- Tags, search, highlights and annotations.
- You can export everything whenever you want: PDF, ePUB, mobi, JSON, CSV…
- It’s hosted in Europe. No ads, no tracking: it’s paid for by subscriptions.
- It’s the open-source wallabag, the project I started in 2013. If you’d rather host it yourself, you can.
Prices
| Service | Per year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| wallabag.it | 11 € | Open source, hosted in Europe |
| Instapaper Premium | ~55 € | Highlights, notes, text-to-speech |
| Raindrop.io Pro | ~26 € | Bookmarks first, search and annotations in Pro |
| Pinboard | ~22 € | Bookmarks only, no reading view |
wallabag.it costs 11 € a year. There’s also 4 € for 3 months, or 30 € a year if you want to support the project a bit more. You can try it free for 14 days, no credit card needed.
If you just want to keep saving articles and reading them later, that’s what wallabag.it has been doing since 2016.