[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
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Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking
for alternatives, including building a light version for my
personal use. But nothing came out of my research. What options
are there and how are you transitioning?
Author : ahmedfromtunis
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-07-17 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep
| jethronethro wrote:
| wallabag. Actually been using it for years, with a short detour
| to the now-gone Omnivore.
| extr0pian wrote:
| Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I
| didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally
| started paying for it as a subscription directly from
| wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an
| option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a
| fantastic service.
| hamburglar wrote:
| I also use wallabag
| floundy wrote:
| I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an _actual_ free trial
| that doesn 't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function.
| I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me
| into two .csv's, one for unread articles and one for archived
| articles, that I respectively imported into Wallabag as the
| import feature allowed for "mark as read" on imports.
|
| About 10% of the articles I had didn't download due to Captcha
| requirements or paywalls that had been added since I had archived
| the article in Pocket. Once my articles imported to Wallabag, I
| filtered the unread list from 0 to 3 minutes which showed me all
| the ones that were paywalled or only saved snippets. I fixed them
| with the Wallabag browser extension, which has an option to save
| content direct from browser.
|
| I now have Wallabag on my Android phone, Boox ereader (runs
| Android), and Kobo ereader (via KOReader). No issues and I'm
| liking it better than Pocket.
| politelemon wrote:
| How does the import to kobo happen?
| floundy wrote:
| I installed KOReader following these instructions:
| https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-
| Ko...
|
| Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by
| clicking the icon it puts in your Kobo library, then in the
| menus you will find Wallabag config. I added a "Wallabag
| Articles" folder for it to sync to.
|
| Note if you use a password manager, my password had a double
| quote which I believe messed with the .lua config password
| string, so I was getting connection errors.
|
| It took 80-90 mins to download 1200 unread articles to my
| Kobo. I haven't played with the auto sync function yet, so
| far I just manual sync before/after a reading session.
| xnx wrote:
| Instapaper
| 4ad wrote:
| Never used Pocket, but I moved to Raindrop.io (from Pinboard) for
| my bookmarks. I believe it can import Pocket.
| adriablancafort wrote:
| I use fika.bar. it's really nice!
| imagetic wrote:
| Instapaper
| masylum wrote:
| Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar.
|
| Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3
| products:
|
| - A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed
| reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A
| blog/newsletter platform
|
| The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration
| yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make
| a lot of sense.
| butlike wrote:
| You should add a public leaderboard called the Fika score (a
| play on fico score)
| RistrettoMike wrote:
| Throwing another answer in for Instapaper. It's not as new and
| flashy as something like Readwise or Matter, but also doesn't try
| to do too much.
|
| Killer features of Instapaper for me include the kindle digest
| and IFTTT integration (which I use to mirror my archived articles
| to Raindrop.io)
| bashlk wrote:
| Yup this is where I ended up too
| segphault wrote:
| I ended up on Readwise Reader after trying a few different
| options. It unapologetically caters to power users and is clearly
| built by people who actually use and care about the product, so
| I'm finding it to be a pretty solid improvement over Pocket.
|
| They also have put some effort into making their mobile app work
| reasonably well on eInk displays, so it's pretty great on a Boox
| tablet. It has real pagination, which is a feature that I was
| pretty annoyed about losing in Pocket when Pocket rewrote its
| mobile app.
| mbirth wrote:
| I'm an Apple user and switched to GoodLinks at first but later
| migrated to AnyBox because the latter one can create PDF and
| WebArchive snapshots of the webpages.
| sealeck wrote:
| https://ln.ht/ isn't bad
| jayknight wrote:
| Nice, I really liked delicious back in the day.
| edoceo wrote:
| Ages ago I made a PWA (cras) that install on my phones and it's a
| share-target, so I've been adding to that.
|
| Self hosted, like four PHP scripts and Sqlite.
| isthistheme wrote:
| Instapaper. It's simple and sleek. Provides direct import from
| Pocket.
| ElectronBadger wrote:
| Some time ago I went to Vivaldi and since then I use its Reading
| List.
| crinkly wrote:
| If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but
| don't select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then
| shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later.
|
| No services or set up involved, works reliably and you can keep
| the PDF forever.
| mi_lk wrote:
| if you have an iPhone just use Safari's Reading List. It syncs
| with iCloud
|
| https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970
| inhumantsar wrote:
| I wrote a plugin for Obsidian called Slurp which cleans a web
| page's html and converts it to markdown.
| beala wrote:
| I realized that all I needed was basically a way of syncing
| bookmarks across a bunch of different platforms (linux, mac, iOS,
| android) and browsers, and I didn't really need any of the
| fancier features like offline access. I had claude code one-shot
| a simple python web app that saves links to sqlite. I stuffed it
| in a docker container and hosted it on my home server. I set up a
| public portal using cloudflare tunnels to access it when I'm not
| on my LAN. I wrote a little bookmarklet that saves a page and is
| compatible with the various browsers I use.
| skeaker wrote:
| If all you need is to save bookmarks, could you not simply sign
| into your browser and use the built in sync feature?
| beala wrote:
| I'd love to do that, but I'm split between different browsers
| on different platforms. I'd also love to consolidate browsers
| so this isn't an issue, but iOS hobbles anything that's not
| Safari. Idk part of me thinks maybe I should just save links
| to obsidian or email them to myself, but I'd really like
| saving a link to be a single click.
| pkaye wrote:
| How about Karakeep if you want to run it locally. You can also
| have it tag your bookmarks automatically if you connect it to a
| LLM.
| aor215 wrote:
| I have a little side project I started a couple years ago for
| this: https://linksort.com/
|
| I work on it when I can. I'd like to add an import from Pocket
| feature but I haven't had a free weekend in a while.
|
| The project is fully open source:
| https://github.com/linksort/linksort
| thisislife2 wrote:
| Nothing but bookmarks and archive.org and PDFs. Every time I
| update the browser, I make sure to take a manual backup of the
| bookmarks.
| dtkav wrote:
| I use Obsidian Web Clipper [0] with the Relay Obsidian plugin [1]
| (I'm the author) for syncing.
|
| Web clipper converts websites to markdown and puts them into your
| Obsidian vault, and then Relay can sync subfolders in your vault
| to make sure you have a copy on all of your devices (even between
| a work and personal vault for example).
|
| Relay is also collaborative, so I frequently clip things, clean
| them up a bit, and move them into shared folders (like docs
| pages).
|
| I like the feeling of local-first combined with a malleable UX.
| Especially for the pocket use-case, offline-capable is a must for
| me so I can catch up on reading when I'm flying or otherwise off-
| grid.
|
| [0] https://obsidian.md/clipper
|
| [1] https://relay.md
| aldur wrote:
| I replaced it two years ago with a small something I built for
| myself and serves me well [0], haven't looked back since.
|
| [0]: https://aldur.blog/micros/2025/07/07/pocket/
| beala wrote:
| I also self host a small app for syncing bookmarks and a
| miniflux instance. Having the bookmark service publish an RSS
| feed for miniflux to consume is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
| righthand wrote:
| Bookmarks and Reader Mode.
| nithinbekal wrote:
| I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just
| has the features of Pocket that I was using.
|
| https://bukmark.me/
| mud_dauber wrote:
| Raindrop
| rickette wrote:
| For me Kobo support is the most important feature. But haven't
| found a substitute.
|
| Also no word from Kobo (Rakuten) about this. Very disappointing.
| mynegation wrote:
| Selhosted Wallabag + ReadKit app on iOS synchronized with
| Wallabag instance.
| joshka wrote:
| > But nothing came out of my research.
|
| Seriously? I call bullshit. Type "pocket alternative" into your
| favorite search engine and you'll find a bunch of sites that
| recommend a few good alternatives. This is a pretty good question
| for reddit.com/r/selfhosted as opposed to hn, and it's well
| covered there.
|
| https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket has a good list
|
| https://github.com/search?q=bookmark+&type=repositories&s=st...
| is a good search as well that surfaces several good options
| (Karakeep, LinkWarden, Shiori, etc.
|
| Personally, I went with Karakeep hosted as a docker container on
| my NAS, mostly because my pocket list is pretty much dump and
| forget and the UI and backend language looked the nicer of the
| top options.
| al_borland wrote:
| I came to the realization (through another commenter on HN) that
| I never actually read things I save. It's just where my good
| intentions go to die. If it's not worth reading in the moment, I
| don't read it. I've been using a little bit of AI summaries to
| get more context from an article if I'm not actually going to
| read it, or want to see if it's worth reading.
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