Pocket is shutting down. Best read-it-later alternatives?
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Mozilla recently announced that they're shutting down Pocket. I used to use Pocket a lot back in the day, but I don't find myself regularly saving articles that much now.
For those that are still using Pocket, what are you planning to switch over to?
For others, what are your best recommendations for read-later-products?
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I was pretty sad to read that Pocket was shutting down too, but I have to admit I was not using it for a while.
Instead... well, I just leave Chrome windows opened on my smartphone, during weeks or more sometimes. Messy but cross-device.
That's why I'm not replacing it.
I switched to second brain app rabrain, that not only has read-it-later features, but also turn my bookmarks into knowledge base.
I was a heavy Pocket user too — mostly for saving longform stuff I'd get to "eventually" (spoiler: I rarely did).
When it shut down, I actually changed my approach entirely. Instead of saving articles to read later, I started converting them to audio and listening during commutes/walks. Turns out I get through way more content when I can consume it hands-free.
I've been using speakeasy for this — you paste a URL and it generates audio with pretty natural-sounding AI voices. Saves to iCloud so it works offline. Not a 1:1 Pocket replacement since it's focused on listening rather than reading, but if your Pocket backlog problem was "I save things and never read them," this might actually solve the underlying issue.
Free tier gives you 3 articles/week which is enough to try it out.
honestly the thing i missed most about pocket wasnt the bookmarking, it was the audio playback. listen-later > read-later for commutes
ended up switching to speakeasy speakeasy.studio.gold — its focused purely on the audio side. paste any url, it converts to ai audio in like 30s and saves offline to icloud. no account needed, free tier is 3 articles/week which is enough to test it out
not a 1:1 pocket replacement since theres no browser extension or inbox stuff, but for the actual listening use case its genuinely better imo. the voice quality is miles ahead of what pocket used to do