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 could be executed 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
. Based on the corporate, Pocket will cease operations on July eighth, 2025 in order that Mozilla can focus its “assets into tasks that higher match their searching habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.

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

Mozilla
says it’s going to then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the technique of being canceled and refunds will likely 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 telephone, it’s going to proceed to operate. You may additionally nonetheless be capable to 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 individuals save and eat content material on the internet has advanced.” 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 faux opinions detector, Fakespot.

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

I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, manner again when it was nonetheless referred to as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Read it Later in 2017). It has been an important device 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 means to save lots of any story I need when I haven’t got the time to learn it in the course of the work day.

…till then, I will take pleasure in the previous few weeks Pocket is round.

It may 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 evaluation gadgets I’ve floating round my home.

I will seemingly make the leap to Instapaper in some unspecified time in the future (I’ve imprecise recollections of utilizing the read-later app manner again in 2008), however till then, I will take pleasure in the previous few weeks Pocket is round.