Abstract
- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8, 2025.
- Content material exports will be performed 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
. Based on the corporate, Pocket will cease operations on July eighth, 2025 in order that Mozilla can focus its “assets into tasks that higher match their searching habits and on-line wants” — it is unclear what that truly means, although.
After that date, you will solely be capable to export saves till October eighth, 2025.
Mozilla
says it’s going to then delete all saved content material. Subscriptions are within the technique of being canceled and refunds might be despatched to subscribers presently on Pocket’s annual plan. Pocket’s net 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 operate. You may additionally nonetheless be capable 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 does not want read-later apps anymore
Mozilla says that it is shutting down Pocket as a result of “the way in which folks 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 pretend opinions detector, Fakespot.
”This shift permits us to form the subsequent 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 current weblog put up in regards to the closure.
I have been utilizing Pocket since roughly 2010, manner again when it was nonetheless referred to as Learn It Later (Mozilla acquired Learn it Later in 2017). It has been an incredible 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 potential to save lots of any story I would like when I haven’t got the time to learn it through the work day.
…till then, I will take pleasure in the previous few weeks Pocket is round.
It’ll be actually bizarre for the app to not be round anymore in just a few 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 evaluation units I’ve floating round my home.
I will seemingly make the leap to Instapaper sooner or later (I’ve imprecise recollections of utilizing the read-later app manner again in 2008), however till then, I will take pleasure in the previous few weeks Pocket is round.
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