Readwise can be a very useful in your knowledge workflow only if you commit to highlighting regularly and enjoy reviewing daily what you put aside.
For heavy annotators and creators who like to dig into past notes, it often pays for itself. For occasional readers or those who dread extra review emails, it’s overkill.
Thank you for the update re. Kevin Rose maybe saving Pocket! That would be spectacular. I've been a user for 10 years and have thousands of articles backed up on there for work purposes, and I also recently got a Kobo Libra (best e-reader I've ever used) and have really appreciated its Pocket integration, so the fact they're committed to finding a solution if Pocket tanks is really encouraging and makes me love Kobo all the more.
It's bloody awful that Mozilla just announced it was pulling the plug like it did, but I'm glad so many responses to this are along the lines of "nope, not if we can help it" from Digg etc.
As for what to use while all this dust settles - I'm giving raindrop.io a go at the moment, which allows for Pocket exports to be imported. I just did so with all my Pocket bookmarks, and it was nice & easy to do it.
You're welcome, Mike. Glad you like your Kobo - the Pocket integration has really been wonderful and I hope they are able to save/recreate it.
Thanks for sharing your giving raindrop.io a go; as it's been a few weeks, would be curious to hear your initial impressions if you've used it beyond just export/import of your Pocket articles. Thanks.
Ugh. One of my fav tools that I have been using for years. Prior to that used to use Evernote’s web clipper. Thanks for sharing and the research for alternatives.
Hey Bryce, I did some manual research and spoke to some good people in the back alleys. Here is a useful list of Pocket alternatives you can check:
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Readwise Reader is probably the best alternative
https://readwise.io/read
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The second best was Omnivore
and I see it is still available as an open-source app on Github
https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore
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Also a popular alternative is
https://instapaper.com/
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Then there are a lot of very interesting alternatives:
https://hq.getmatter.com/
https://doublememory.com/
https://www.backtoit.io/
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https://www.infoflow.app/en
https://couchreader.app/
https://www.forestudio.ca/newspal/
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https://www.paperspan.com/
https://readeck.org/en/
https://readermode.io/
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https://wallabag.org/
https://karakeep.app/
https://moehrenzahn.de/project/flyleaf/
https://reederapp.com/classic/
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Robin,
Thank you so much for compiling and sharing this list. I look forward to checking these out. Thanks again.
https://www.infoflow.app/en
https://couchreader.app/
https://www.forestudio.ca/newspal/
.
https://www.paperspan.com/
https://readeck.org/en/
https://readermode.io/
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https://wallabag.org/
https://karakeep.app/
https://moehrenzahn.de/project/flyleaf
https://reederapp.com/classic/
That's quite a list.
Do you have one you particularly like or are using? Thanks, Robin.
https://readwise.io/read
Thanks. It looks good. And you find it's functionality worth $120/yr?
Readwise can be a very useful in your knowledge workflow only if you commit to highlighting regularly and enjoy reviewing daily what you put aside.
For heavy annotators and creators who like to dig into past notes, it often pays for itself. For occasional readers or those who dread extra review emails, it’s overkill.
Test the free trial, and see how you like it.
Thank you for the update re. Kevin Rose maybe saving Pocket! That would be spectacular. I've been a user for 10 years and have thousands of articles backed up on there for work purposes, and I also recently got a Kobo Libra (best e-reader I've ever used) and have really appreciated its Pocket integration, so the fact they're committed to finding a solution if Pocket tanks is really encouraging and makes me love Kobo all the more.
It's bloody awful that Mozilla just announced it was pulling the plug like it did, but I'm glad so many responses to this are along the lines of "nope, not if we can help it" from Digg etc.
As for what to use while all this dust settles - I'm giving raindrop.io a go at the moment, which allows for Pocket exports to be imported. I just did so with all my Pocket bookmarks, and it was nice & easy to do it.
You're welcome, Mike. Glad you like your Kobo - the Pocket integration has really been wonderful and I hope they are able to save/recreate it.
Thanks for sharing your giving raindrop.io a go; as it's been a few weeks, would be curious to hear your initial impressions if you've used it beyond just export/import of your Pocket articles. Thanks.
Ugh. One of my fav tools that I have been using for years. Prior to that used to use Evernote’s web clipper. Thanks for sharing and the research for alternatives.
Yeah, I used to use Evernote's web clipper, too.
Let me know what you find in terms of alternatives to Pocket. So far, I've created accounts on Raindrop.io and Insta paper to try out.
I’m pretty sure I tried Insta a long time ago as well but moved everything to Pocket shortly after. Will have to take a look again and at Raindrop.
ZDNet has an article about how to self-host Archive box: https://www.zdnet.com/article/life-after-pocket-how-to-set-up-your-own-self-hosted-article-archiving-service/
TechCrunch has an article with overviews of several potential Pocket replacements here:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/read-it-later-app-pocket-is-shutting-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives/