Pocket will no longer be available after July 8, 2025.
You can continue using the app and browser extensions until this date. After July 8, Pocket will move into export-only mode. Users can export saves anytime until October 8, 2025, after which user data will be permanently deleted. Why is Pocket shutting down?
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.
But the way people use the web has evolved
Er… nope.
That’s pretty unfortunate. I think Pocket was probably one of the best services that Mozilla offered (outside of Pocket). I find it worrisome if Pocket was not a profitable avenue for them.
I used it for a while as my read-it-later but it ended up being too expensive for the usage I made of it.
I’m pretty worried about Mozilla as a whole. I feel that none of the projects I remember in the past 15 years have actually worked out. Pocket, CommonVoice, Servo, Mozilla Location Services… It’s a shame, really.
I hope for them that Relay and VPN still manage to work out though I’ve never really been interested in either unfortunately.
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For me it’s not to be true. I found it useful sharing links from time to time with my phone.
My Kobo has (er, had) Pocket support, so it was nice, in theory, to save something to Pocket in FF and have it sync to my e-reader. That said, it was kind of glitchy and a lot of sites didn’t seem to work well with it (typically documentation pages for things like Oracle, etc that I’d want to save for offline reference).
If you use Signal it has a note to self feature which is really similar functionally to something like Pocket.
Ah damn.
Do you know how to replace it (the one-click save for later)? Something that would take the imports from pocket and is well integrated within Firefox?
Pocket used to be a separate extension. Firefox bought it out and integrated it. It could go back to being a separate extension again, I suppose.
Personally, I think this is a good thing. Firefox is looking at some rocky financial times ahead and I’m happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser please. As long as the browser has a good solid framework for extensions then all this extra functionality can be provided by others just as easily.
I’m happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser
but thats not what theyre doing. im on mobile so dont have the link handy, but they mention in a different article that they think Pocket has been superseded by AI and tab groups. theyve harvested the bits of it they want and have no use for the consumer service now but its not about narrowing their focus.
They can make whatever excuses they want, as long as the result is the same. They need to narrow their focus to serve the browser and this is a step in that direction.
I have the same question! If not today, tomorrow will have a search for something similar. I will update you.
Someone in another thread mentioned Wallabag. Self hosted or paid for the service to be hosted for you.
Good riddance to bad spamware
Yep. One of the fist things I set in about:config
extensions.pocket.enabled false
The Android app has a decent read-aloud feature. Hope it will still works after the service closes. I don’t use it for article discovery, nor for sync.
Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.
What’s the discovery replacement they are referring to here?
