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

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.
Content material exports might be completed 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 shopping habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.

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

Mozilla
says it’s going to then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the means of being canceled and refunds will probably be despatched to subscribers at present on Pocket’s annual plan. Pocket’s net extension and app have already been eliminated as of Could twenty second, 2025, although if you have already got the app in your cellphone, it’s going to proceed to perform. You may additionally nonetheless be capable of re-download the app till October eighth, 2025 so long as you’ve got 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 best way folks save and devour content material on the internet has developed.” My assumption is that regardless of Pocket’s recognition 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 also be shutting down its pretend evaluations detector, Fakespot.

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

I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, method again when it was nonetheless known as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Read it Later in 2017). It has been an amazing 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 capability to avoid wasting any story I would like when I haven’t got the time to learn it throughout the work day.

…till then, I am going to take pleasure in 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 almost each system I exploit, together with my MacBook Professional, iPhone 16 Professional, Kobo Libra Color, and the myriad of smartphone overview units I’ve floating round my home.

I am going to doubtless make the bounce to Instapaper in some unspecified time in the future (I’ve obscure reminiscences of utilizing the read-later app method again in 2008), however till then, I am going to take pleasure in the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.