Pocket no longer exists: Mozilla shut it down on July 8, 2025, and exports ended on October 8, 2025; Mozilla announced that user data would be permanently deleted after that. To keep saving articles for later, use Chrome's or Safari's reading list, Firefox's bookmarks and Tab Groups, or an app that lets you export your list.
The dates and quotes come from Mozilla's announcement and the Pocket site, and the browser steps from Google's and Apple's help pages, all checked on October 6, 2026.
This guide is part of A guide to saving articles and reading them later, which organizes every guide on the topic.
What exactly happened to Pocket?
According to Mozilla's announcement:
- From May 22, 2025, you could no longer download Pocket or buy a new Premium subscription.
- Pocket shut down on July 8, 2025.
- Saves could be exported until October 8, 2025; after that, data would be permanently deleted.
- From October 8, 2025, Pocket's API stopped reading or writing data.
The Pocket site says the shutdown covered the web, Android, iOS and macOS apps and the browser extensions, and explains why: "the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved".
Can I still recover my saved articles?
Not from Pocket. If you did not export before October 8, 2025, Mozilla announced that the data would be permanently deleted. If you did export, that file is now the only copy of your list: keep it somewhere you back up.
Where can I save articles now without installing anything?
In your browser's reading list.
Chrome. Google's help on reading pages later says to open the page, choose More > Bookmarks and lists > Reading list > Add tab to reading list, or right-click the tab. The list opens from the same menu with Show reading list, and from the side panel you can reorder, edit and delete items. To keep a copy offline, Save page as downloads the page to your computer.
Safari on a Mac. Apple's guide to the Reading List says you can add a page with Add to Reading List or by Shift-clicking a link, save items to read offline, show only unread items, and keep the same list on all your devices with iCloud.
Firefox. On the Pocket site, Mozilla points to Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks as built-in ways to manage reading lists.
How do I choose a read-later app so this doesn't happen again?
Read-later apps and their features change, so this guide does not rank them. These criteria are an original KeepAnalog suggestion, based on what Pocket's closure taught:
- Export: check that you can download your whole list in a file, and do it from time to time; Pocket gave three months after closing.
- Your copy, not just the link: an offline copy survives if the page changes or disappears.
- Author and source: a saved article without a byline or site is hard to cite or find again.
- A habit of returning: a list that only grows becomes another pile.
Saving is not the same as reading
A new list does not fix the pile on its own. Before you move everything, read Saving is not returning: revisit your unread articles, and if what piles up is email, Unread newsletters: how to rescue the ones you meant to read. Links also break over time; When links disappear explains how to keep a sturdier archive.
And if you would rather read them on paper?
KeepAnalog takes eligible public links that one person chooses (HTML pages or PDFs) and turns them into a monthly printed issue. The preview shows each piece's title, byline when there is one, and source site, and nothing is printed or charged until the person approves the issue. It does not import Pocket lists, and for now the pilot is in Argentina only, with no delivery in the United States.