Pocket Is shutting down: your ultimate guide to rescuing knowledge management

Is it time to rethink how you save things?

Mozilla recently announced that it’s shutting down Pocket, the beloved “read-it-later” app, on July 8, 2025. If you’re a longtime user, you have until October 8 to export your saved content.

Pocket launched in 2007 to solve a common problem: you come across something interesting online, but you don’t have time to read it right now. “Save it for later” became a common habit for many users - over 10 million of them!

If you’ve ever found yourself with a digital backlog of articles you meant to read, you’re not alone. Tools like Pocket solved the “capture” part of the equation. Since Pocket got started, many other tools were created to also help with capturing knowledge, but more interestingly, many more tools also began pushing beyond that. What happens after you save something? The quest to build a product that’s great for helping you use your knowledge is still underway.

If you were a Pocket user, its shutdown might be causing you to look for new tools to try. Perhaps you’re looking for a simple drop-in replacement. Or, perhaps it’s pushing you to rethink your setup and try a new tool that does more than just capture. You might even be in the market for research tools. Here are some alternatives and a broader perspective on what you might be interested in trying next.

Disclaimer: We are Liminary, a company building a knowledge companion for work. Our product also allows users to easily save knowledge in one central place. But our focus is on answering the question of “So what next?. Though we have many of the “capture” features, we aren’t trying to build a Pocket replacement, but rather a tool that can use your knowledge to help you complete your work faster. Nonetheless, we’re passionate users of this space, so we hope this guide can help you explore new options and find a good replacement. If you’re curious to learn more about Liminary, check out our section below or our website.

The classic “read-it-later” apps

Instapaper

A veteran in the space, Instapaper is probably the most direct replacement for Pocket and offers offline access and Kindle support to boot. It’s elegant and streamlined, and provides a delightful reading experience. You can highlight, take notes and even speed-read; however, organization features are manual and a bit limited, and capabilities to search through your saved articles aren’t the focus.

Great if: You’re just looking for a like-for-like replacement

Limitations: Doesn’t help much with knowledge organization or feature many AI-powered features

Reader by Readwise

A power user’s dream. Reader brings together newsletters, RSS feeds, and PDFs all in one place, and supports full-text search, highlighting, and tagging. It’s quite full-featured with a slick design, though markets itself as a tool for powerusers.

Great if: You’re an info omnivore who wants a more robust “inbox” for reading or you want to easily incorporate email newsletters and RSS feeds into your reading habit

Limitations: Not free (though they offer a free trial) and a bit more going on than Pocket

Matter

Tailored for Apple users, Matter combines read-it-later with a polished interface that can also handle email newsletters and RSS feeds. It offers helpful reading tools and can also turn your reading list into audio output, giving more of an audiobook or podcast experience. 

Great if: You want something simple and beautifully designed, or you prefer switching between reading and listening to content

Limitations: Only for the Apple ecosystem and not prioritizing AI-powered features

Self-hosted choices

If you’re on the more technical side or prioritize privacy and security, there are a couple options for you to set up your own bookmarking tool. Karakeep and Wallabag are two options; the latter also has a hosted option for a subscription.

Great if: You value the extra control, privacy and security of setting up a tool yourself

Limitations: Requires a level of technical knowledge to set up and maintain; little or no ongoing feature development

Tools for bookmarking and beyond

mymind

Visually stunning and powered by AI, mymind is a minimalist’s dream. You can save anything - notes, images, links - and let the AI sort it all. It’s private, solo-focused, and very intentional about what it doesn’t do, like collaboration.

Great if: You want to save things effortlessly, without fuss, in a beautiful interface

Limitations: It’s not optimized for deep reading and the creator has a fairly strong stance against certain kinds of features, like social integrations or collaboration

Raindrop.io

Think: a fancier, more structured bookmark manager. That’s Raindrop.io. It supports all formats, ranging from articles to videos to docs, and offers folders, tags, and smart search. It treats bookmarks as the unit of knowledge to work with, and even backs up all webpages and files that you save in it. There’s even the ability to collaborate on collections of bookmarks.

Great if: You want to work with bookmarks, not just textual content, and you love organizing your digital stuff

Limitations: Organizing is fairly manually-driven, and reading is not the primary focus

Note-taking tools with web capture built in

Evernote

One of the most iconic note-taking brands, Evernote can flexibly create many different kinds of documents. It also has a web clipper which makes it easy to save full pages or snippets. You can organize with notebooks and tags, and search across all your content - whether written by you or saved from the internet. but Evernote remains more of a digital notebook than a thinking partner.

Great if: You want a tool that lets you both take notes and save digital content

Limitations: More of a digital notebook, which means the features are more focused on you creating content rather than saving and reading

Notion

The Swiss Army knife of productivity apps, Notion can do a lot. You can not only write documents, but also build entire databases, wikis and workflows inside it. It includes a web clipper to let you easily save content to your Notion. It has also recently expanded to be an email and calendar application as well.

Great if: You want one tool that can let you create as much as save, or if you’re working on a team and want one place where everyone can save content

Limitations: More focused on writing than on saving/reading; heavyweight, with a lot of other features

So what’s next? What if the real question isn’t “what should I use to save links” but: how do I use the knowledge I save?

Liminary

That’s us! We’re in early beta, but here’s where we’re headed and how we think knowledge tools should evolve.

Liminary isn’t just about saving things, it’s about being with you as you read, research, and build new understanding. We’re building a knowledge companion that doesn’t just store your information, it uses that knowledge to help you deepen your understanding and complete the work you need to do.

Liminary lets you easily capture what you’re reading, in any format it comes in. It then helps you connect the dots between the pieces of information you’ve saved. And, when you need it, Liminary resurfaces just the right insight to help you draft that doc, prep that deck, or write that email.

We're designing Liminary to:

• Save all kinds of knowledge - articles, PDFs, and soon, files, videos, audio, meeting notes, and more - with in-context highlighting and note-taking features
• Be a thought partner to you as you review the knowledge you’ve gathered, asking you follow-up questions, highlighting the sources that support or refute claims, generating counter-arguments, and more
• Help you do something with what you’ve saved. Need to summarize findings? Draft an outline? Generate ideas based on your research? Liminary is there as a companion. 
• Act in context, surfacing what you need when you're writing, researching, or collaborating, not just when you go looking for it.

In short: we’re less interested in “read-it-later” and more focused on work-better-now.

Recall

Recall focuses on reinforcing your memory of saved knowledge through AI summarization, automatic knowledge base organization, and features like spaced repetition. It gives you access to your saved content offline and works with webpages, PDFs and even Youtube videos. Its goal is to ensure you remember and can apply what you've saved.

Great if: You want a self-organizing knowledge repository, or you like having AI summarize content for you

Limitations: Focus is a bit more on remembering and mastering the knowledge you’ve saved

…and more!

There are many tools in this space, and we couldn’t try them all yet! Here’s a listing of others we know about that you may want to check out, along with their tag lines. Over time we may write entries for them and incorporate them above. 

If you know of more tools that are missing on this list, feel free to email them to us at support@liminary.io and we’ll add them!

• Bookmark OS - “All-in-one bookmark manager”
• SaveDay - “Your stunning bookmark manager and organizer”
• Toby - “Stop drowning in tabs”
• Start.me - “Organize All Your Links In One Place”
• Booky.io - “Your bookmarks always available. Simple. Individual. Private. Fast.”
• Microsoft OneNote - “Your digital notebook”
• Lasso - “All-in-one bookmark and screenshot manager”
• Zotero - “Your personal research assistant”
• Webtop - “​​Bookmarks, Passwords and Web Apps in one place”
• PaperSpan - “Read It Later App to use the web for better you”
• CollectRead - “Save Articles Without Monthly Fees”
• Safari’s native reading list feature
• Chrome’s native reading list feature
• GoodLinks - “Save. Read. Anywhere.”
• Anybox - “Manage bookmarks like a pro”

Where we go from here

Pocket closing might feel like the end of an era, but maybe it’s an opportunity for you to explore the space and try out a new tool for saving and working with your knowledge.

If you’re looking for a direct replacement for Pocket, good news - there are a few options to check out. If you’re looking for a new kind of thinking tool, one that’s a thought partner, helps you make sense of complexity, and stays grounded in your real-world goals, we’d love to show you what we’re building.

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