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Title: Mozilla is shutting down its read-it-later app Pocket

Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 18:32:47 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/apps/mozilla-is-shut...

Pocket, Mozilla's service for saving articles to read later, is shutting down
on July 8, 2025. Mozilla says it's phasing out Pocket and Fakespot, its
browser extension for vetting product reviews, in an attempt "to be
intentional about where we invest our time and resources" as the company
continues to support Firefox.

Starting today, May 22, Pocket is no longer available to download and you
can't sign up for a Pocket Premium subscription. Mozilla says existing annual
and monthly subscriptions will be cancelled automatically, and annual
subscribers will be fully refunded on July 8. You'll have until October 8 to
export your Pocket data before Mozilla deletes it, and the Pocket API, which
lets apps and devices access the articles you've saved, will be shut down on
the same day.

The Fakespot website, browser extension and apps will no longer be available
starting on July 1, 2025 and you'll lose access to Review Checker in Firefox
(a Fakespot-powered feature) even earlier on June 10. Mozilla acquired
Fakespot in 2023 "to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI
and privacy-first tech," but the company says that "while the idea resonated,
it didnΓÇÖt fit a model we could sustain."

Pocket lived an even longer life at Mozilla as one of the last OG read-it-
later apps. Mozilla acquired the service in 2017, but Pocket existed for a
decade before that, first launching in 2007 as a browser extension called
Read It Later before it was renamed to Pocket in 2012.

Like Instapaper, Pocket promised to take an article URL and convert the page
into a highly-readable, ad-free document that you could access while you were
away from your browser. Some modern browsers have built-in "Reader" modes
that can do the same thing on-demand, but Pocket made it possible to archive
it all for later, even if the page was taken down.

With Pocket out of the picture, the best alternatives are Instapaper, which
got a new lease on life when it bought itself from Pinterest in 2018 and
Readwise Reader, which combines read-it-later features and the ability to
review eBook highlights in the same app. For more instructions on how to
rescue your Pocket data before its deleted, Mozilla has an online guide.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/apps/mozilla-is-shut...
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