Pocket and Omnivore Are Gone. Where to Save What You Read, and Actually Keep It

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If you are reading this, you probably lost a reading list. Mozilla shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025, and exports stayed open until October 8, 2025, after which saved data was to be permanently deleted (Mozilla's announcement). Omnivore's hosted app went away in November 2024; its code is still open source, so you can run it on your own server (Omnivore on GitHub).

So where should your articles go now? It depends on what you actually lost.

First, what did you lose?

A read-it-later app does two jobs, and most people only use one of them.

• A reader. A clean, quiet place to read an article later, without ads, on any device.
• A pile. A list that grows by a few links a day and that you rarely open again.

If you miss the reader, you need another reader. If, honestly, you miss the feeling that you were keeping things, a new pile will not fix it. The two answers are different.

If you want a reader, pick a reader

These apps are still going, and each does the reading part well.

• Instapaper. The free plan saves articles and syncs them across web, iOS and Android. Premium adds full-text search, a permanent archive and Kindle integration, and lifts the limit on notes (Instapaper Premium).
• Matter. It calls itself "the modern read-later app for iPhone, iPad, and web", with a browser extension for saving (Matter).
• Readwise Reader. Articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS feeds and YouTube videos in one place. There is no free plan: a 30-day trial, then a paid plan, for Reader alone or with full Readwise (Readwise Reader).
• Omnivore, self-hosted. If you are comfortable running a server, the open-source code is still there.

Details about other apps as of October 28, 2026.

If one of these fits, use it. Linko is not trying to be a better reader than they are.

If what you lost was a pile

Here is the uncomfortable question: how many of your saved articles did you ever open again? The list was doing a job, but the job was making you feel that the idea was safe, not helping you use it.

What changes that is one small step after saving: write one line about why you saved it, in your own words. A link says "this exists". A line says "this matters to me because…". The line is what you will want back in a month.

Then the line needs to come back on its own, because you will not go looking for it.

Save, note, topic, review: the loop in Linko

Linko is a notes app built around that loop.

1. Save. Share a link from any app on your phone, use the browser extension on a computer, or paste the link. See Save links from your phone and your browser.
2. Note. Add a line about why it matters. On the web, select a passage in the article and choose Note this: the quote opens in a new note, linked to the article.
3. Topic. Linko files your notes and resources under topics for you, and shows related notes you wrote before. No folders to set up. See Tags and topics.
4. Review. Daily review brings back one set of your notes each day, turned into questions, so you meet the idea again before it fades.

When you need something you half remember, Ask Linko answers from your notes and resources and lists the sources it used.

What Linko is not

• It is not a dedicated reader. Articles open in the page with what they say and your notes beside them, but there are no typography themes or text-to-speech playlists.
• It does not bring in Pocket or Omnivore exports today. If you still have your export file, keep it.
• The browser extension works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers. Firefox and Safari can't run it yet; paste the link instead.

Quick picker

• A clean place to read on web, iOS and Android, free → Instapaper
• A reader for iPhone and iPad → Matter
• Articles, PDFs, newsletters and RSS in one paid reader, on every device → Readwise Reader
• Your old Omnivore, on your own server → self-hosted Omnivore
• Fewer saved links, more of your own lines that come back → Linko

You can also use both: a reader for reading, and Linko for the one line worth keeping.

Linko: free for your first notes and resources, and Pro when you want more. See pricing.

FAQ

When did Pocket shut down?

July 8, 2025. Exports were available until October 8, 2025; Mozilla said saved data would be permanently deleted after that.

Can I still export my Pocket saves?

No. The export window closed on October 8, 2025.

Is Omnivore coming back?

The hosted app is gone. The code is open source, so you can host it yourself.

Can I import my Pocket or Omnivore export into Linko?

Not today. Start with what you save next: one link and one line at a time is how the loop starts anyway.

What is the best read-it-later app in 2026?

For reading alone, pick by device and budget: Instapaper has a free plan on web, iOS and Android; Matter is for Apple devices and the web; Readwise Reader is paid and handles the most formats. If your problem is never coming back to what you saved, a reader alone will not solve it.

Try it

Save one article this week and write one line about it. Let Daily review bring it back. Linko in two minutes →