5 Great Pocket Alternatives for Saving Bookmarks
After 17 years, Pocket, the beloved read-it-later service, will be shutting down on July 8, 2025. So, you'll have to migrate your data to another read-it-later or bookmarking service. While there are plenty of apps to choose from, here are five of the best Pocket alternatives for you.
5. Instapaper
Instapaper is one of the best read-it-later apps out there – it's been around for over a decade! It's available on the web, iOS, Android, macOS, and you can use it to save unlimited articles, web pages, videos to read and watch later.
You can organize your saved content by moving it into folders. All saved content is synced across all your devices, and you can access it even when you're offline. Instapaper also offers permanent archiving, a paid feature that ensures your saved content remains accessible even if it disappears from the internet. You can even send articles directly to your Kindle device if you prefer to read it there.
4. Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io is an all-in-one bookmark manager for storing and organizing all kinds of content—from web links to images, videos, and documents—that you might want to revisit later. It's available on all major smartphone and desktop platforms, including the web, and is one of the apps that many people keep installed on their Android phones.
Compared to most bookmarking apps, Raindrop.io offers a generous free plan that lets you save unlimited items, use tags or organize saved content into collections (like folders), and mark and annotate pages to revisit important parts later. You can also upload files from your device or integrate a number of popular apps and services to save their content easily.
3. Matter
Matter is a sleek, modern read-it-later app available exclusively on iOS, iPadOS, and the web. In addition to letting you save almost anything ( PDFs , Threads, videos, etc.) on the web, it also lets you sync your newsletter subscriptions and follow your favorite authors or feeds to get their latest content as soon as it's published.
All your content is synced across devices and available offline. You can organize your saved content with tags for easy access. Likewise, you can highlight important content in your posts and access all your highlights in one place.
2. Readwise Reader
Readwise Reader is a feature-rich read-later app for power users. It's available on all major mobile and desktop platforms, including the web, and you can use it to save a variety of content types, such as articles, newsletters, PDFs, EPUBs, RSS feeds, and even YouTube videos with transcripts.
Readwise Reader lets you highlight important content and add supporting notes. The app even surfaces them through daily reviews — via email or in-app — to help you remember. Plus, you can automatically save highlights to your personal knowledge base in apps like Obsidian , Notion , or Logseq .
1. Recall
Recall is more than just a bookmarking or read-it-later app. It's essentially an AI-powered knowledge management app that leverages AI to help you better understand your saved content. As of this writing, Recall is available on Android, iOS, and the web.
You can use Recall to save articles, PDFs, podcasts , YouTube videos with transcripts, and more from anywhere on the Internet . Once saved, you can generate AI-powered summaries of the content and get help with content-related questions by asking the built-in chatbot. There is also the option to highlight important points, take notes, and save all the important information to Recall Notebook for easier access.
Recall is mostly free to use. You can use most of the app's core features at no additional cost, though there are limits on AI summaries and chats per month. To unlock the full suite of AI features, you'll need to upgrade to Recall Plus for $7/month (billed annually).
