Pocket's gone. Where do your saves go now?
Mozilla shut Pocket down on 8 July 2025. What happened to your saves, how to use the export if you got it, and the read-it-later and bookmark apps worth moving to.
TLDR
- Mozilla shut Pocket down on 8 July 2025. Exports ran until 6 November 2025 (pushed back from 8 October), then the data was deleted.
- If you downloaded your export, it’s a CSV with the title, URL, date added, tags and read status of every save. Most apps can import it.
- Where to go depends on what you used Pocket for: reading articles later, or keeping links you’d need again.
What happened
Mozilla announced in May 2025 that Pocket would close. The app and the extension stopped working on 8 July 2025. After that it was export-only, first until 8 October and then, after a last-minute extension, until 6 November 2025. After that, everything was deleted.
If you’re reading this and never exported: sorry. There’s no way to get it back now. Check your email for a “your Pocket export is ready” message, in case you requested it and forgot.
What’s in the export
A ZIP with a CSV (usually called part_000000.csv) and these columns:
titleurltime_added(a Unix timestamp)tags(separated with|)status(unread or archive)
No article text, no highlights. Just the list. The articles themselves still live on the web, where they haven’t died.
Where to go, depending on what Pocket was for you
If you read long articles later, on your phone: look at Instapaper, Readwise Reader or Matter. They’re built around the reading experience: a nice text view, highlights, sometimes text-to-speech. That’s what they’re best at.
If Pocket was really a bookmark dump: most people’s Pocket was 2,000 links they never read and 40 they needed again. For that, you want a bookmark manager, where search and folders matter more than the reading view. Raindrop.io is the obvious one, and it’s been around for years.
If you saved articles as references for work: examples of landing pages, newsletters, launch posts. Then you want a copy of the page itself, in case the link dies. That’s a swipe file.
Moving to Savepad
This is where Savepad fits if you’re in the last group, or somewhere between the last two.
- Go to Settings → Import and export and pick the space it goes into.
- Choose the CSV from your Pocket export.
- Savepad shows a preview, then brings every link in with its tags and the date you saved it. Pocket’s
|-separated tags come across as tags. - In the background it fetches every page again, with a fresh preview, a full-page snapshot and a clean reading copy. If a page has died since you saved it, you’ll see which ones.
The reading copy means you can still read articles later, in a clean view, on your phone. It’s just not the whole point, the way it was in Pocket. The read-later use case goes through how that works, and import from other apps has every format we take.
Didn’t get your export, but your old Pocket links are in your browser bookmarks too? Export your bookmarks and import that file instead.