Abstract
- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.
- Content material exports will be accomplished till October 8, 2025.
- The app has already been pulled from app shops.
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 initiatives that higher match their looking habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.
After that date, you will solely have the ability to export saves till October eighth, 2025.
Mozilla
says it’s going to then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the strategy of being canceled and refunds can be despatched to subscribers at the moment 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’s going to proceed to perform. You may additionally nonetheless have the ability to re-download the app till October eighth, 2025 so long as you have already downloaded it earlier than.
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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 advanced.” 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 be shutting down its faux evaluations detector, Fakespot.
”This shift permits us to form the subsequent period of the web — with instruments like vertical tabs, good search and extra AI-powered options on the way in which,” writes Mozilla in a current weblog put up 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 Learn it Later in 2017). It has been a fantastic 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 skill to avoid wasting any story I need when I haven’t got the time to learn it in the course of the work day.
…till then, I am going to take pleasure in the previous couple of weeks Pocket is round.
It’ll be actually bizarre for the app to not be round anymore in a couple of weeks, particularly since I’ve it put in throughout practically each gadget I exploit, together with my MacBook Professional, iPhone 16 Professional, Kobo Libra Color, and the myriad of smartphone assessment gadgets I’ve floating round my home.
I am going to possible 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 couple of weeks Pocket is round.
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