Learn-later app Pocket is shutting down, and I am tremendous unhappy about it

Abstract

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.
Content material exports will be performed till October 8, 2025.
The app has already been pulled from app shops.

Mozilla has revealed that it is shutting down its extraordinarily helpful

read-later app Pocket
. In accordance with the corporate, Pocket will cease operations on July eighth, 2025 in order that Mozilla can focus its “sources into initiatives that higher match their looking habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.

After that date, you may solely be capable of export saves till October eighth, 2025.

Mozilla
says it would then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the strategy of being canceled and refunds will probably be despatched to subscribers at the moment on Pocket’s annual plan. Pocket’s net extension and app have already been eliminated as of Might twenty second, 2025, although if you have already got the app in your cellphone, it would proceed to perform. You will additionally nonetheless be capable of re-download the app till October eighth, 2025 so long as you have already downloaded it earlier than.

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Mozilla says the web would not want read-later apps anymore

Mozilla says that it is shutting down Pocket as a result of “the way in which folks save and eat content material on the internet has developed.” My assumption is that regardless of Pocket’s reputation with a small subset, use has dropped considerably over the previous few years, particularly as

Google’s AI Search
overview continues to slowly destroy the web. Together with Pocket, Mozilla can be shutting down its pretend opinions detector, Fakespot.

”This shift permits us to form the following period of the web — with instruments like vertical tabs, sensible search and extra AI-powered options on the way in which,” writes Mozilla in a current blog post concerning the closure.

I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, approach again when it was nonetheless known as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Read it Later in 2017). It has been an ideal instrument for saving tales all through the day to learn within the night, whether or not on my iPad and even my Kobo (the e-reader has had direct integration with the app for years). The Firefox plugin has additionally been extraordinarily helpful, giving me the near-instant potential to save lots of any story I need when I haven’t got the time to learn it throughout the work day.

…till then, I will get pleasure from the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.

It will be actually bizarre for the app to not be round anymore in just a few weeks, particularly since I’ve it put in throughout practically each gadget I take advantage of, together with my MacBook Professional, iPhone 16 Professional, Kobo Libra Color, and the myriad of smartphone evaluation units I’ve floating round my home.

I will doubtless make the leap to Instapaper sooner or later (I’ve imprecise recollections of utilizing the read-later app approach again in 2008), however till then, I will get pleasure from the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.