Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.

Mozilla Corporation

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About this app

THE PLACE TO ABSORB GREAT CONTENT.
Use Pocket to capture the content that comes at you all day long, and curate your own space filled with only the topics you care about. Save the latest stories, articles, news, sports and videos from any device, and any publisher or app. Then fuel your mind with a reading, watching, and listening experience designed for calm eyes, free hands, and fresh focus.

SAVE FROM ANYWHERE.
Save the latest news, magazine articles, stories, videos, recipes, web pages, how-to information – anything you discover online or subscribe to, from any publisher. User favorites include: New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Flipboard, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Lifehacker, Business Insider, The Verge, BBC News, Google News, Buzzfeed, Vox, engadget, Medium, Newsweek, Twitter, Youtube.

REST YOUR EYES. FIND YOUR FOCUS.
Pocket’s clean layout and customizable display make for a relaxing reading experience that clears out the visual clutter, gives your eyes a rest, and lets your mind focus on the information at hand. Love long reads? Pocket’s typography and layout keep reading comfortable for longer stretches. Love to read before bed? Try our new dark and sepia themes to reduce visual stimulation before you sleep.

LISTEN TO ARTICLES.
Pocket’s listen feature turns any news story, article, or blog post into a hands-free, eyes-free learning experience. Now you can turn content into knowledge while you cook, commute, work out, walk, or just relax and listen.

READ EVERYWHERE.
If it’s in your Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet and computer – even when you’re offline. Whether you’re taking a news break, reading from bed, or breezing through articles on your commute, Pocket makes the most of your time by getting you straight to the news feeds, magazine articles, stories, information, news, and sports that are compelling to you. And estimated reading times help you turn any time into quality time.

DISCOVER MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE.
Find more of what you love but might otherwise have missed. Pocket surfaces ‘best of web’ content discovered by our users, verified by our curators, and approved by our editors. Find all kinds of topics from all kinds of publishers, including quality magazines and news sources like Fast Company, The Verge, Medium, Quartz, Harvard Business Review and more.

MAKE IT PREMIUM. AND PERMANENT.
Power users can upgrade anytime to Pocket Premium for features like advanced search, unlimited highlights and automatic article backups.

You can also save to Pocket with our browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari
Learn more at https://getpocket.com/.

Ratings and reviews

The service itself is mostly fine, but there are lots of shortcomings and issues that are unlikely to be ever fixed. Permanent copies are unreliable and are usually missing when you need them. Full-text search has some serious ranking issues, often bringing up irrelevant articles (and there seems to be no option to limit searches to article titles except unsubscribing from premium). There are no article text previews, you can only see original page titles in the list, and these are often broken because the Pocket crawler doesn't seem to support JavaScript. The web UI is limping along with year-old bug reports still unfixed and it doesn't even display article text highlights when searching. Pocket is not terrible overall but it's stagnant and I'm actively looking for alternatives.

Major Bug (still present a year later 6/7/24) .... When I use the "Find in page" feature with a dark theme, I cannot see what I type in to find. The text that I type is black on black so it makes using that feature near impossible with a dark theme. I have to change back to a White theme simply to search inside a given article. You guys have time to change your icon to rainbow (ok, I'm fine with that) but not fix this issue? Otherwise it's a great app but I can't rate it higher.

It does not consistently save your spot in an article (often resetting to the top), and there are no bookmarks. So what is the point? If the only way to know how far I am in an article is to highlight, you may as well use diigo which is free. The only solution I have found is to highlight a period at the end of the last sentence you read, then to delete such highlights when done with the article. I shouldn't have to do this!

What's new

Nothing really interesting in this update, just the usual bug fixes and performance improvements.

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