Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.
by Mozilla Corporation 4.39/5 (23505 Reviews) July 04, 2024
More About Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.
SAVE FROM ANYWHERE.
Save the latest news, magazine articles, stories, videos, recipes, web pages, how-to information – anything you discover online or subscribe to, from any publisher. User favorites include: New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Flipboard, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Lifehacker, Business Insider, The Verge, BBC News, Google News, Buzzfeed, Vox, engadget, Medium, Newsweek, Twitter, Youtube.
REST YOUR EYES. FIND YOUR FOCUS.
Pocket’s clean layout and customizable display make for a relaxing reading experience that clears out the visual clutter, gives your eyes a rest, and lets your mind focus on the information at hand. Love long reads? Pocket’s typography and layout keep reading comfortable for longer stretches. Love to read before bed? Try our new dark and sepia themes to reduce visual stimulation before you sleep.
LISTEN TO ARTICLES.
Pocket’s listen feature turns any news story, article, or blog post into a hands-free, eyes-free learning experience. Now you can turn content into knowledge while you cook, commute, work out, walk, or just relax and listen.
READ EVERYWHERE.
If it’s in your Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet and computer – even when you’re offline. Whether you’re taking a news break, reading from bed, or breezing through articles on your commute, Pocket makes the most of your time by getting you straight to the news feeds, magazine articles, stories, information, news, and sports that are compelling to you. And estimated reading times help you turn any time into quality time.
DISCOVER MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE.
Find more of what you love but might otherwise have missed. Pocket surfaces ‘best of web’ content discovered by our users, verified by our curators, and approved by our editors. Find all kinds of topics from all kinds of publishers, including quality magazines and news sources like Fast Company, The Verge, Medium, Quartz, Harvard Business Review and more.
MAKE IT PREMIUM. AND PERMANENT.
Power users can upgrade anytime to Pocket Premium for features like advanced search, unlimited highlights and automatic article backups.
You can also save to Pocket with our browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari
Learn more at https://getpocket.com/.
Latest Version
July 04, 2024
Mozilla Corporation
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User Reviews
Purejoy Sadguru
3 years ago
Fantastic way to save articles for reading later, across multiple devices, and it removes pretty much all of the distracting elements from said content. I have been using pocket for years, and it's great. That being said, there should absolutely be a preference allowing for the user to disable the "Save Copied URL?" dialog. This is needed from both a privacy and usability perspective. Otherwise, great work.
Kristin McNulty
1 year ago
I used to love this app. Yes it's described as a "save articles for later" app and that's true. However, it used to block all the annoying ads and pop ups. Now it doesn't. If I want to save something for later it's really easy to just bookmark it and save in a folder. I might just uninstall it now. It's annoying. The ads take over almost any article you want to read these days. Not worth it. After one or two ads I stop reading. It's pointless. And when using pocket the pages are often "jumpy".
Calvin Miner
10 months ago
EDIT I've been using this app for 8 years, and paid for most of them. However, the app stopped saving my read progress more than a year ago, so I stopped paying. There seem to be more and more websites that fail to save too, they render the full website, ads and all inside the pocket app. It's still a great app, but I haven't seen progress on bugs for a long time. Before the Mozilla acquisition, it felt like development was more frequent.
Lisa Peterson
1 year ago
This is a great little app. We all come across articles or videos we're too busy to read or view. This app stores them all for you. It's as easy as sharing a link. When you hit "share" just choose Pocket and your article or video will be saved for later. You can organize them in the app if you save a lot. Viewing videos is great because it's easy to view them in full, landscape mode. I find I use this several times a day.
A Google user
5 years ago
Decent app with lots of pluses and a few minuses. For a person with some vision issues this app allows me to listen to my news stories much faster than I can read them. The feature I especially like is the Google Chrome plug-in that allows you to save stories in the computer browser and it automatically syncs with the phone app. There’s also a web based version as well. Drawbacks include: no setting to atomically delete the stories once they have been listened to. Only about 80% of the stories I save can be read to me, and almost none of the stories I get from CNN can be read back. On the website you can’t have the stories read to you period! I’ve tried 10 or 12 apps and this one is the best so far. For now this is my go to reader, but I am looking for something better!
Trisha
2 years ago
Update after dev response: The "Save from Clipboard" option does not show up. No bar at the bottom of the app shows up when I've copied a link. Original review: Don't know when they removed the ability to save articles from copied links, let alone save anything at all, but that is ridiculous. Why would you remove such a basic feature? Doesn't look like I can use it within Chrome on my phone either. Guess I'm looking for a new app. Sorry. You dropped the ball.
A Google user
5 years ago
Wonderful app for quickly keeping, categorizing, and accessing saved links across all of your devices. This is a perfect app for very busy people who need to quickly save links they randomly come across for later. Includes a text-to-speech reader that'll let you read through one or more articles with the push of a button. This is especially handy in the car. There is one recurring bug, however (which is why only 4 stars instead of 5): occasionally when you click "Add to Pocket", the links do NOT get added to your list, even though the app displays a confirmation message that the link was added. This seems to happen about 10% of the time and has become an annoyance. Sometimes, the adds will stop working and won't add several in a row (I lost 7 links this morning, that the app all confirmed to me were added). Other than that, this is a wonderful app, Web site, and Windows Store app.
Charlene Blades
1 year ago
I have used Pocket for years, I'd even get yearly emails telling me I was in the top 1% of Pocket users. So it means a lot when I say that if the latest update is indicative of where the app is going, I might stop using it. Fewer and fewer articles open in article view, which is the key feature I use this app for. Scrollbars are gone. I can no longer long press a link to save it to Pocket. I dont think Mozilla understands this app and the changes since they've owned it really show that.
R G
8 months ago
I've used the app for about a year, and suddenly the premium online voices do not work, even with a strong internet or phone data connection. When using the other voices, which you have to do now, after you've listened to any article once, you cannot start back at the beginning. The app has promise, but is not yet ready for mass distribution. P.S. - I did delete and reload the app, it made no difference.
D Y
9 months ago
This is getting worse and worse. First, fewer and fewer articles have offline modes. Most just send me to the website, defeating its purpose. There isn't even consistency between two articles from the same website. One will save while the other one won't. There are inconsistencies between the web and mobile versions with some saves not showing up, and it gets past fewer and fewer paywalls now. Tweets of articles used to display the saved article with the tweet on top, now just show the tweet.
A Google user
5 years ago
Updating my review. I love this app for so many reasons (mostly because I can listen to articles while I do other things) and so many of the new updates are great. I appreciate the different voice that reads the title so I know that I'm listening to a different article and my ears love the softer voices (and so does my migraine prone head)! I would give 5 stars, but it tends to cut off the last word or two of quite a few articles and leaves me feeling confused.
A Google user
4 years ago
Syncs across devices, I use it between my laptop and phone. I love the tagging system, it makes it easy to find saved articles later, and love that articles stay tagged even when in archive view. I really appreciate the ability to switch into a dark mode! However, I wish there was a manual button to paste in links. The "Do you want to save this?" that pops up id neat, but occasionally won't register a saved link if I don't save it immediately after I copy it.
Dave Kovatch
9 months ago
I've used the app for at least a decade and loved it. In the past year it has been steadily heading downhill fast. The main benefit of Pocket has always been to save the text of articles offline so they could be read regardless of network connectivity. My complaint with the Windows version of Pocket was that you had to be online to read. They have chosen that same direction for the app overall. If all this app does is save links to articles, and doesn't download the text, its useless.
Dana Garvey
11 months ago
In addition to the issues I've raised in the past, the latest problem with this app is that when you save an article, you now have to click the tag button three times (sometimes only twice) to get the tagging box to open! I have noticed this on multiple devices, so it's not an issue with my phone. And yes, I am still dismayed by the utter lack of value in the Premium subscription that I paid for for too long. Permanent library? Searchable? Hardly.
A Google user
5 years ago
I am a very heavy user of this app and the underlying functionality is great. The audio features were greatly improved with the last major update in 2018 but there are still many articles that can't be done parsed. Also you are now locked into a single voice for audio playback. You can use the Google voices but lose functionality like being able to FF and rewind.
Henry Rüsch
1 year ago
This app continues to be excellent. Transfering and saving articles from any source is very easy: just go to "Share" and then select "Pocket". The text of the article appears without extrenuous sidebars, but you can also go back to the original layout. The search is very helpful. The tags have been updated: the most recent are kept up top for a while, the others return to alphabetical order. The audio function is also useful. I have been using it for 7 years, many times a day.
Michael Garber
1 year ago
The good: it's a great way to save articles for later reading. I like that it simplifies the text and removes much of the ad bloat from source. I also like the ability to tag as in ENote. My suggested improvements: I would like to see a better search functionality. My searches (paid version) tend to return a sea of irrelevant results, so I don't use search much, which is unfortunate,as it would be useful. I'd also like to see a pagination option in IOS.
A Google user
1 month ago
This app was the best! but now I can't say the same...I think the latest version that works for me is 8.1.1.0. In later versions I can't download web view (now called original view) so you have to be online (which defeats the purpose of saving for later) and on top of that most of the time the article view is not available! And also if a site demands loging in to view the page, you need to be online and log-in every single time!
Colin McNeill
2 months ago
It does not consistently save your spot in an article (often resetting to the top), and there are no bookmarks. So what is the point? If the only way to know how far I am in an article is to highlight, you may as well use diigo which is free. The only solution I have found is to highlight a period at the end of the last sentence you read, then to delete such highlights when done with the article. I shouldn't have to do this!
Andrew “Currency” Halpern
1 month ago
Major Bug (still present a year later 6/7/24) .... When I use the "Find in page" feature with a dark theme, I cannot see what I type in to find. The text that I type is black on black so it makes using that feature near impossible with a dark theme. I have to change back to a White theme simply to search inside a given article. You guys have time to change your icon to rainbow (ok, I'm fine with that) but not fix this issue? Otherwise it's a great app but I can't rate it higher.
