What replaced Pocket after Mozilla shut it down?

Mozilla announced Pocket's wind-down in 2024 and the app fully shut down in 2025. The read-later space fractured. Here's the 2026 landscape and how to pick.

The Pocket exodus options:

Instapaper (free)

• Founded 2008, sold to Pinterest, sold to Brad Fitzpatrick, now independent.
• Free with most features. Premium ($3/mo) adds full-text search and speed-reading.
• Strong text parsing, ad-free reading.
• iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android.
• Best for: simple, fast read-later.

Matter (free)

• Newer app focused on reading + highlighting.
• AI-generated summaries free.
• Voice playback of articles.
• Reading queue, highlights, notes.
• iPhone, iPad, web.
• Best for: visual reading experience + AI features.

Readwise Reader ($8/mo)

• Built by the team behind Readwise (the highlights aggregator).
• Most powerful read-later app in 2026.
• Read articles, PDFs, ebooks, tweets, RSS, emails, YouTube transcripts.
• AI assistance, highlights, spaced repetition for revisiting.
• iPhone, iPad, Android, web, Mac.
• Best for: power readers who want one app for everything.

Omnivore (open-source, defunct)

• Was free and open-source.
• Killed in late 2024 after the team joined ElevenLabs.
• Data exports still work for migrating to other tools.

Apple Reading List (free, native)

• Built into Safari.
• Limited (no tags, no search inside articles, no highlights).
• Best for: super-light users who want zero-friction.

Reader Mode + Notes (free, native, manual)

• Use Safari Reader Mode → Share → Save to Notes.
• Articles save as plain text in a Notes folder.
• Searchable, highlightable, free.
• Best for: users in the Apple ecosystem who don't want another subscription.

Pinboard (paid)

• Old-school bookmarking, $11/year.
• Text snapshot of pages for paid users.
• Best for: long-term archive enthusiasts.

Némos

• Capture-heavy second brain that handles articles alongside screenshots, voice notes, PDFs.
• Articles parse on-device (no server roundtrip).
• Search across articles, screenshots, voice memos in one place.
• iPhone, iPad, watchOS, Apple Watch.
• Best for: users who want one app for everything they save.

How to choose:

Migration tools:

Most apps support importing Pocket exports. Export your Pocket archive (HTML format) before May 2025 — Mozilla no longer hosts data after that date.

The 2026 lesson:

Don't put all your reading in a single SaaS. Use a tool that lets you export easily. Markdown export is the gold standard for portability. All the apps above support markdown export except Apple Reading List.