Last updated: September 19, 2026
Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025 and deleted the data that wasn't exported by October. If you're still looking for a Pocket replacement, you're probably either rebuilding from an old CSV export or you gave up on read-it-later for a while and want a home for links again.
We make SnapsNote, one of the options below, so read this with that in mind. We've tried to be straight about it: for a lot of former Pocket users, SnapsNote is not the best Pocket app alternative.Here's how to tell.
Pocket won for years on a few specific things, so it's worth being clear about which of them you actually relied on:
Based on each product's public features as of September 2026. Plans change, so check before you commit. ~ means partial or paid-only; ? means we couldn't confirm it.
| Feature | Pocket (RIP) | Instapaper | Readwise Reader | Raindrop.io | Matter | SnapsNote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean reader view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | — |
| Offline reading in native mobile apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Listen / text-to-speech | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Highlights and notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | — |
| Saves notes and snippets, not just links | — | — | ~ | ~ | — | ✓ |
| Imports a Pocket CSV export | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Permanent copy of the page | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Full-text search inside saved pages | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ~ |
| One-click export on the free plan | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ? | ✓ |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ✓ |
Better than SnapsNote at: actually reading. Instapaper has a clean reader view, native iOS and Android apps with offline articles, highlights and a long track record. If your Pocket habit was saving an article on your laptop and reading it on your phone later, start here.
Weaker at:anything that isn't an article. Notes, snippets and loose links you want to find again aren't what it's designed for.
Better than SnapsNote at:nearly everything about reading. It handles articles, PDFs, newsletters, RSS and ebooks, with excellent highlighting, text-to-speech, and syncing to Obsidian, Notion and similar tools. It's the most capable Pocket alternative by a wide margin.
Weaker at:price and simplicity. It's a paid subscription with no permanent free plan, and it has a learning curve. If you saved things and rarely read them, you'd be paying for power you won't use.
Better than SnapsNote at: organization and looks. Nested collections, visual grids, collaboration, native apps and a free tier with unlimited bookmarks. Pro adds permanent copies and full-text search.
Weaker at: staying out of your way. The collections and settings that power users love are the reason some people bounce off it. Pro is also pricier than ours ($28/yr vs $15/yr at the time of writing).
Better than SnapsNote at: the reading experience, especially on Apple devices, with high-quality text-to-speech and highlights.
Weaker at:platform coverage. It's strongest on Apple devices, so check that it runs on everything you use, and that you can export your library, before moving there.
Plenty of Pocket libraries were thousands of links deep and mostly unread. If that was you, a better reading app won't change that. What helps is being able to save anything in one paste and find it again with one search. That's all SnapsNote tries to do.
Where it falls short, again:no reader view, no offline reading, no text-to-speech, no highlights and no native mobile apps. If those were why you used Pocket, pick Instapaper or Readwise Reader instead. We'd rather you find the right tool than churn out of ours.
If you downloaded Pocket's export before it was deleted, you have a CSV with your URLs, titles, tags and dates. Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Raindrop.io and SnapsNote can all import it. In SnapsNote, go to Settings → Import, choose Pocket CSV and upload the file; your tags come across intact. The free plan stops at 200 saves, so a big Pocket library needs Pro.
One lesson from Pocket applies whichever app you pick: make sure you can export everything, on the plan you're actually paying for, before you rely on it.
Pocket (getpocket.com, originally Read It Later) was a free app for saving articles to read later. Mozilla bought it in 2017 and built it into Firefox. It stripped pages into a clean reader view, synced them to your phone for offline reading, and could read articles aloud.
You saved a link from the browser button, the Firefox toolbar or the share sheet on your phone. Pocket fetched the article text, so you could read it later without ads, offline, with highlights and tags. Premium added a permanent library and full-text search.
Probably not from Mozilla. Pocket stopped working in July 2025, and Mozilla said it would permanently delete account data after the export window closed in October 2025. If you downloaded the CSV export before then, you still have your list of links, titles and tags, and any of the apps below can import it.
Nothing is built in. The "Save to Pocket" button and Pocket recommendations were removed from Firefox. A replacement with its own browser extension gets you back to one-click saving — SnapsNote’s is on the Chrome Web Store; a Firefox version isn’t out yet.
Instapaper, for most people. It is the same kind of app Pocket was (a clean reader, offline mobile apps, a generous free tier) and has been around even longer. If you read and highlight heavily, Readwise Reader is the more powerful choice.