Pocket shut down in July 2025. Here are the 6 best replacement apps for saving links, reading offline, and organizing bookmarks on iPhone.
Disclosure: this article is published by the team behind Tote. Tote is not a read-it-later app and does not replace most of what Pocket did. We included it because a subset of Pocket users were really saving links and finds, not reading articles, and that is the job Tote is designed for. Every other app in this list is a third-party product we have no affiliation with.
Pocket shut down in July 2025 after 18 years. Mozilla discontinued the app, pulled the browser extensions, and closed the service for good. By October the export window closed and by November all user data was queued for deletion.
If you are reading this, you probably already exported your data or lost it. Either way, you need somewhere new to save things. The right replacement depends on what you actually used Pocket for, which was not the same for everyone.
Pocket started as “Read It Later” in 2007 and the name described the core job pretty well. You saved a link, Pocket pulled the article content, and you read it later in a clean view without ads. Over time it added tagging, highlights, text-to-speech, offline reading, Kobo e-reader sync, and content recommendations that showed up in Firefox's new-tab page.
But not every Pocket user used it the same way. Some people read every article they saved. Others treated it more like a bookmark dump — links, recipes, product pages, travel ideas — and rarely opened the reader view. The replacement that works for the first group is different from the one that works for the second.
| App | Best for | Price | Article view | Offline reading | Tagging / organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raindrop.io | Closest 1:1 Pocket replacement with a generous free tier | Free / $28 per year | Yes, built-in reader view | Paid plan only | Tags and nested collections |
| Readwise Reader | Readers who highlight, annotate, and consume articles, PDFs, RSS, and newsletters | ~$8 per month | Yes, excellent reader view with annotations | Yes | Tags, smart filters, and document-level notes |
| Instapaper | Simple, clean read-later experience with minimal friction | Free / $3 per month | Yes, one of the original article-view apps | Yes | Folders, not tags |
| Matter | iOS-native reading with text-to-speech, highlights, and AI summaries | Free / paid tier | Yes, highly customizable reader | Yes | Tags, favorites, and collections |
| Wallabag | Self-hosted, open-source option you control | Free (self-hosted) / hosted plan | Yes, article parsing and reader view | Yes, through the app | Tags and starred entries |
| Tote | iPhone users who saved links alongside screenshots, places, and social posts | Free | No dedicated article view | No | AI-generated tags and search, not manual folders |
Raindrop.io is the alternative that shows up in almost every “Pocket replacement” thread, and for good reason. The free tier is generous — unlimited bookmarks, unlimited collections, cross-device sync, and a built-in reader view. The iPhone app supports the Share Sheet, and the browser extensions work on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.
Raindrop covers the core Pocket workflow: one-click save from browser or phone, tagging and nested collections, a reader view that strips page clutter, and full-text search on the paid plan ($28/year). Shared collections are a bonus if you save things with other people.
What you lose compared to Pocket: offline reading is paid-only, there is no text-to-speech, no Kobo integration, and the reading view is not quite as focused as a dedicated read-later app.
If you want a bookmark manager that doubles as a reader rather than a pure read-later app, Raindrop is the first thing to try.
Readwise Reader is a different kind of product. It handles articles, RSS feeds, email newsletters, PDFs, EPUB files, YouTube transcripts, and Twitter threads in a single reading environment. The iPhone app is solid and saving via the Share Sheet works well.
Reader makes sense as a Pocket replacement if you highlight and annotate what you read, follow RSS feeds or forward newsletters, want highlights to flow into a notes system like Obsidian or Notion, or read PDFs and ebooks alongside web articles.
Reader costs around $8/month and the interface has more going on than Pocket ever did. If you just want to save a link and read it later, it is probably more tool than you need.
Instapaper has been around since 2008 — it predates Pocket's rename from “Read It Later.” The iPhone app is clean, the article view is good, and saving is fast.
Pick Instapaper if you want the most straightforward save-and-read workflow, offline reading matters and you do not want to pay for it, or you used Pocket primarily for reading rather than bookmarking. It does not do RSS, newsletters, or PDF import — it does one job cleanly.
One thing to know: Instapaper has changed ownership several times (Betaworks, Pinterest, back to its creator, then acquired again). If Pocket's shutdown made you nervous about depending on a single service, the ownership history is worth weighing.
Matter is the most iOS-native feeling read-later app in this list. The iPhone app has customizable typography, text-to-speech (if you listened to Pocket articles, this matters), highlights, and tags.
Matter specifically went after Pocket refugees when the shutdown was announced — offering migration tools and personal onboarding for displaced users. The product team also added AI summarization and co-reader features Pocket never had.
It is a good fit if you are primarily an iPhone and iPad reader, use text-to-speech or audio articles, or forward newsletters to your reading app. Matter is mostly an Apple-platforms product and the full feature set requires a paid subscription. If you need desktop or Android, look at Raindrop or Readwise Reader instead.
Wallabag is the choice if you are done trusting commercial services after watching Omnivore get acquired and shut down in November 2024, then Pocket disappear seven months later.
Wallabag is open source and can be self-hosted. You own the server, the data, and the export. There is also a hosted version if you want the open-source guarantee without running your own infrastructure.
It has a basic iPhone app, browser extensions, article parsing, tagging, and offline reading. The experience is not as polished as Matter or Readwise Reader, but it will not shut down because someone acquired it. Pick Wallabag if data ownership is a deciding factor and you are either comfortable self-hosting or trust the hosted plan more than a VC-backed app that might get acquired next quarter.
This is where Tote fits, and I want to be clear about the boundary.
Tote does not have a reader view. It does not do offline article reading, RSS, newsletters, text-to-speech, or annotations. If those were the parts of Pocket you used, any of the apps above is a better replacement.
But a lot of Pocket users did not actually read articles in Pocket. They saved links from Safari, shared posts from Instagram and TikTok, screenshot-captured things they wanted to remember, and used Pocket as a holding pen. The article view gathered dust. The real job was: save this so I can find it later.
Here is what Tote does on iPhone:
Tote is free. If your Pocket export was mostly a list of URLs you never read in article view, the problem was never “read later.” It was “save and find later.” That is a different product category.
Relevant Tote pages:
This list is not exhaustive. A few other tools former Pocket users have migrated to:
Omnivore was a well-liked open-source read-later app that got acquired by ElevenLabs and shut down in November 2024 — about seven months before Pocket. If you see it recommended in older articles, it no longer exists as a product. Many Omnivore users moved to Readwise Reader or Wallabag.
The right pick depends on what you actually did in Pocket. If you read articles, start with Instapaper or Matter. If you organized bookmarks, try Raindrop. If you highlighted and took notes, Readwise Reader. If you want to self-host after two shutdowns, Wallabag. And if you mostly saved links you never read, that is what Tote is built for.
Most former Pocket users will land on Raindrop as the path of least resistance. If reading quality matters more than bookmarking breadth, try Matter or Readwise Reader first.
Mozilla said the way people save and consume web content had changed and they wanted to focus resources on Firefox. Pocket had been around for 18 years and had over 10 million users. The shutdown was announced in May 2025 and completed in July 2025, with all data deleted by late 2025.
Raindrop.io has the most generous free tier — unlimited bookmarks, collections, and cross-device sync at no cost. Instapaper also has a solid free plan if reading is the priority. Wallabag is free if you self-host.
For reading articles on iPhone, Matter has the most polished iOS experience. For saving and organizing links on iPhone, Raindrop.io and Tote both have good Share Sheet workflows. It depends on whether your main job is reading or saving.
Raindrop.io and Readwise Reader both have Android apps and are the strongest cross-platform Pocket replacements. Instapaper also works on Android. This article is iPhone-focused, but those three cover Android well.
If you exported before October 2025, most of these apps accept Pocket export files or standard bookmark formats. Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, Instapaper, and Matter all offered import paths during the migration window. If you missed the export deadline, your Pocket data is gone.
Wallabag is the main self-hosted option. It is open source, handles article parsing and tagging, and gives you full control over your saved content. Omnivore used to be the other self-hosted choice but it shut down in November 2024.
Tote helps you save screenshots, links, and social finds, then makes them easier to search and use later on iPhone.
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