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

Mozilla has revealed that it is shutting down its extraordinarily helpful

read-later app Pocket
. In response to the corporate, Pocket will cease operations on July eighth, 2025 in order that Mozilla can focus its “sources into tasks that higher match their searching habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.

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

Mozilla
says it can then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the means of being canceled and refunds will likely be despatched to subscribers presently on Pocket’s annual plan. Pocket’s internet 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 can proceed to operate. You will additionally nonetheless be capable of re-download the app till October eighth, 2025 so long as you’ve got already downloaded it earlier than.

Mozilla says the web would not want read-later apps anymore

Mozilla says that it is shutting down Pocket as a result of “the way in which individuals save and devour content material on the net has developed.” 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 also be shutting down its faux critiques detector, Fakespot.

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

I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, method again when it was nonetheless referred to as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Read it Later in 2017). It has been a terrific 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 capacity to save lots of any story I would like when I haven’t got the time to learn it in the course of the work day.

It should be actually bizarre for the app to not be round anymore in a number of weeks, particularly since I’ve it put in throughout almost each machine 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 seemingly make the leap to Instapaper in some unspecified time in the future (I’ve obscure recollections of utilizing the read-later app method again in 2008), however till then, I am going to take pleasure in the previous few weeks Pocket is round.

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