Pocket is shutting down. Export your stuff before October 8

Pocket, the read-it-later app that's been a quiet workhorse for the past 15 years, is closing. The shutdown was announced today, and users have until October 8, 2025 to export everything — saved articles, lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights. After that date, it's gone.

It was one of those tools you forgot was there until it vanished. Built by Mozilla, bought by RSSHub, then by Readwise, Pocket became the default way people hoarded long-form reads on their phones. No algorithm. No ads. Just a place to stash something for later. That's why the shutdown stings — not because it was flashy, but because it was reliable.

There are alternatives. Readwise Reader, Instapaper, and a handful of open-source readers like Miniflux or FreshRSS can pick up the slack. Most of them support importing from Pocket, so the migration is mostly a matter of plugging in the export file. The real work is deciding which one you'll actually use, since the whole point of a read-it-later app is that you don't think about it.

Why this matters for us: Pocket stored a lot of community articles — union pages, immigrant resource guides, neighborhood news — and now those links have an expiration date.