Pocket isn’t an option any more.
It shut down on July 8, 2025. If you’re here, you’re choosing what comes next, and whether the same thing can happen again.
after pocket
Pocket taught a generation to save. Its ending taught us to own.
Pocket made save-for-later mainstream and served readers well for years. This page isn’t a victory lap. It explains why IKI keeps your library as files.
2007Read It Later launches; it becomes Pocket.
2017Mozilla acquires Pocket.
May 2025Mozilla announces the shutdown.
July 8, 2025Pocket stops working. Premium is refunded.
October 8, 2025The export window closes (briefly extended to early November).
AfterEverything not exported is deleted for good.
The timeline: Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. Users had until October 8 to export their data, with a short extension to around November 6. After that, everything was permanently deleted. Premium subscribers were refunded automatically, which is more grace than most shutdowns manage. Still, every reading list that missed the window is gone, because the saves only ever existed inside a service. IKI keeps your library as markdown files on your own device, so there’s no server whose shutdown could take it away.
IKI is the better fit when…
- You want a read-later that nobody can switch off from outside
- You kept your Pocket export and want it back as a library
- You want the articles read, summarised and answerable
side by side
The details.
| Question | IKI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Was free with a Premium tier; refunds were automatic at shutdown | Free; Pro $6.99/mo or $49/yr; Founder $99 once (500 seats) |
| Where your library lived | Mozilla’s servers; deleted after November 2025 | Your iPhone, or your own iCloud Drive |
| Format and export | CSV and HTML, during a three-month export window | Markdown files, already on your device |
| What survives a shutdown | The export file, if you made one in time | Everything, because the library is files on your device |
| Ask your library | No | Yes, with sources |
| Account | Required | None |
Dates are from Mozilla’s published shutdown timeline, checked in August 2026. Sources: Mozilla: Pocket is saying goodbye.
credit where it’s due
Where Pocket got it right.
It made saving normal
One-tap save-for-later, years before every browser grew a reading list. Millions of people learned to keep what they found.
It read well
Its clean article view was the standard everyone measured against.
It ended decently
A public timeline, an export window and automatic refunds. The problem was the architecture, not the conduct.
moving over
Bringing your library back.
- 1Find the export you made before the window closed. It’s a CSV or an HTML file, sometimes split into parts.
- 2In IKI, open Settings › Library › Import from Pocket and choose it. Links that still work are fetched, read and made into cards, with progress in the Dynamic Island.
- 3If you never exported, nobody can recover what Mozilla deleted, IKI included. Start the new library somewhere that can’t happen again.
Start with one save.
It’s free to start, and every save is a file you own.
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