Pocket shut down. Where should your reading list go now?

Pocket is gone, and the right pocket alternative depends on how you used it. If you mostly queued articles to read on a phone, check for mobile apps first. If you used Pocket as a long-term library, you want search, a kept copy of each page and an export you control.

Mozilla's own shutdown notice and press coverage give the timeline below. If you did not export in time, the data was deleted, and the rest of this post is about starting again well.

What happened to Pocket

Mozilla announced the shutdown on 22 May 2025. According to How-To Geek's report of the announcement, Pocket kept working until 8 July 2025, then switched to an export-only mode. The export period ended on 8 October 2025, after which all accounts and their data were permanently erased. Users did not need to delete their accounts themselves.

How-To Geek's report adds that the shutdown covered the website, the mobile apps and the browser extensions. Mozilla's farewell page gives its stated reason: that the way people save and consume content on the web has changed, so it is putting resources into projects that fit browsing habits today. It points to Firefox features such as Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks as built-in ways to manage reading lists.

That is the practical lesson: a service you do not control can end on a few months' notice. A good replacement should let you leave on your own terms.

What Pocket users actually lost

Depending on how you used it, you lost some of these:

• A queue of things to read later.
• A long archive of articles, with tags and favourites.
• Highlights and notes.
• Mobile apps and browser extensions that made saving a single tap.

Not every replacement covers all of these. Be clear about which one matters to you before you compare products.

What to look for in a Pocket alternative

Four questions sort the options quickly.

Can you get your data out? Look for export to a standard format. The file should open without the service still running.

Does it keep a copy of the page? If the original site vanishes, a bookmark is only a dead link. Some tools keep their own copy of each page, often on a paid plan.

Can you search the text? Searching titles finds what you remember naming. Searching every word finds what you remember reading.

Where do you read? If most of your reading happened in Pocket's phone app, this matters more than any other point.

Where tinykoi fits

tinykoi is a hosted bookmark manager. You save a page from the Chrome extension or by pasting a link, and tinykoi fetches its title, excerpt and cover. A reader view strips the clutter and lets you pick the typeface, size and a light, sepia or dark page. You can highlight passages in five colours and attach a note to any highlight.

The free plan has no bookmark cap and searches every word of every page you save. Pro, at $3 a month or $24 a year, adds an archived copy of every page, so it still opens after the site changes or goes away. It also adds monthly broken link checks, a duplicate finder, AI tagging and search by meaning. See pricing and the features page for the full list.

You can export your whole library as an HTML bookmarks file or a CSV at any time, so leaving is not a project.

Where tinykoi does not fit

Be honest about these before you switch:

• There are no mobile apps. The browser extension is Chrome only. If you read on a phone and saved from a phone, tinykoi will not replace that.
• There are no team or shared workspaces.
• It is built around a library, not a queue. If you want a read-later list that behaves like Pocket's, test that first.

Import is also worth stating plainly. tinykoi imports a browser bookmarks HTML file, a Raindrop CSV, an Instapaper CSV, and Karakeep and Linkwarden JSON exports. Pocket's export is not on that list, and tinykoi's code has no Pocket-specific importer, so do not assume your old Pocket file will map across with tags and highlights intact.

Other places to look

Competitor details below were checked in October 2026 against each product's own pricing pages and docs.

• Instapaper is the closest to Pocket in spirit. Free works as a queue, but search on the free plan covers titles only. Premium is $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year, and adds full-text search, filters and archived copies. Free allows 5 highlights a month.
• Readwise Reader is paid only, from $7.99 a month after a 30-day trial. It has full-text search, an archive, and a 500 MB file limit. It has no collections.
• Raindrop has a free plan with unlimited bookmarks, and Pro at about $3 a month or $28 a year. Full-text search and the web archive are Pro features. See our list of Raindrop alternatives for how the others compare.
• Linkwarden and Karakeep can be self-hosted for free, if you would rather run your own server than rely on another company.

None of these is the same as Pocket. Choose by the part of Pocket you will miss most.

Do not lose a second library

Whichever tool you pick, export once a month for the first few months. It takes a minute, and it is the only protection against a repeat of October 2025.

Start a new reading list

tinykoi's free plan needs no card. Create an account, save a handful of pages you were meaning to read, and check whether the reader and search suit you.