Mozilla is shutting down its read-it-later app Poc...

Pocket, Mozilla’s service for saving articles to learn later, is shutting down on July 8, 2025. Mozilla says it is phasing out Pocket and Fakespot, its browser extension for vetting product critiques, in an try “to be intentional about the place we make investments our time and sources” as the corporate continues to assist Firefox.

Beginning right this moment, Might 22, Pocket is not out there to obtain and you’ll’t join a Pocket Premium subscription. Mozilla says current annual and month-to-month subscriptions will likely be cancelled robotically, and annual subscribers will likely be absolutely refunded on July 8. You may have till October 8 to export your Pocket knowledge earlier than Mozilla deletes it, and the Pocket API, which lets apps and gadgets entry the articles you’ve got saved, will likely be shut down on the identical day.

The Fakespot web site, browser extension and apps will not be out there beginning on July 1, 2025 and you may lose entry to Overview Checker in Firefox (a Fakespot-powered characteristic) even earlier on June 10. Mozilla acquired Fakespot in 2023 “to assist individuals navigate unreliable product critiques utilizing AI and privacy-first tech,” however the firm says that “whereas the thought resonated, it didn’t match a mannequin we might maintain.”

Pocket lived a good longer life at Mozilla as one of many final OG read-it-later apps. Mozilla acquired the service in 2017, however Pocket existed for a decade earlier than that, first launching in 2007 as a browser extension known as Learn It Later earlier than it was renamed to Pocket in 2012.

Like Instapaper, Pocket promised to take an article URL and convert the web page right into a highly-readable, ad-free doc that you might entry whilst you had been away out of your browser. Some fashionable browsers have built-in “Reader” modes that may do the identical factor on-demand, however Pocket made it potential to archive all of it for later, even when the web page was taken down.

With Pocket out of the image, one of the best alternate options are Instapaper, which received a brand new lease on life when it bought itself from Pinterest in 2018 and Readwise Reader, which mixes read-it-later options and the flexibility to evaluation eBook highlights in the identical app. For extra directions on rescue your Pocket knowledge earlier than its deleted, Mozilla has an online guide.