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?

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

I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed.

https://savewithfolio.com/

Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices, and access all your saves offline across all of your devices. If you enjoyed Pocket, you'll feel right at home! It’s still early days but all the core features are solid and working well.

Pocket imports are available via their API (though it’s been a little flaky lately), and I’m wrapping up file imports from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Raindrop, and Readwise so it should be easy to make the switch really soon.

Lots of fun stuff planned ahead. I’d love to have you join us if you’re looking for a new home!

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.

Readwise.io FTW. Saves all kinds of online stuff. The iPhone & iPad apps sync seamlessly and have quite-good text-to-speech recognition for most of it — which is great for listening to longer articles in the car / at the gym. I've got the paid version.

https://readwise.io/

I moved to https://raindrop.io/.

Imported all the Pocket stuff with no issues, free plan is enough for me.

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.

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.

I'm self hosting Readeck (https://readeck.org/en/) and I really like it. It's nicer than Pocket was, the website extraction seems to work better, and it can't ever be shut down.

For my Kobo, I wrote a mod that lets me redirect Pocket API requests, and a small proxy server that translates Pocket API calls into Readeck calls.

So far it's working flawlessly and my Kobo is using its built in Pocket viewer for Readeck instead. I'm hoping to open source it soon so others can use it.

I depended heavily on Pocket for over a decade as a free user. It started to get bogged down with about 20k bookmarks. I used to spend hours manually tagging saves and the search function never seemed to actually return results. This time around I wanted a self hosted solution.

I looked at Walabag and Shiori before I decided on Karakeep. I just didn't like the UI of the first two. I already have an Ollama server and the AI tagging feature of Karakeep is far better than Walabag's, in fact the tag management feature in general is. And Meilisearch adds a really fast search engine to Karakeep that has allowed me to discover new value to the 16k bookmarks from Pocket after cleaning down from the 20k I exported, it's super impressive.

Now the less great news, Karakeep is much newer and less mature than the other options and currently only supports a SQLite backend and I really hope that changes. The only API for Karakeep goes through its web interface and so I don't think I even could export all my bookmarks. If the data was stored in a standalone real database like MySQL or PostgreSQL other options would be possible.

The AI tagging is AMAZING but it generates a LOT of tags and that makes the tag management screens in Karakeep difficult or impossible to use because they are overwhelmed. I am looking forward to the next and future releases which aim to help with this.

I use the Android app which works really well.

Karakeep does make your server into a web crawler and because of the little war on AI LLMs we're experiencing these days an unfortunate number of websites have started to fight all crawling. Karakeep uses a SingleFile browser extension which allows you to prove you are a human or log in to a website and then capture a page and submit it to Karakeep. This is a little awkward because you may end up bookmarking something once using the regular Karakeep extension and then see that you didn't get what you want and have to do it again via SingleFile. I'm hoping that at least a config list will be added so that the regular Karakaap browser extension will automatically invoke SingleFile for websites known to block bots.

I stopped using Pocket, Instapaper, and the likes in my ongoing effort to be able to walk out[1] whenever I want/need to. I tried out and still wanted to have something that keeps archives of the content I like to read. That is also largely resolved with Archive.org.

So, I end up with just a plain-text of some of the links I want as bookmarks. If they shut down or go away; its fine.

I have tested a few similar app. I'm currently happy with a minimal foot-print of Shiori.[2] I tried and liked the UI/UX of Readeck[3] better but it has its own convoluted saving and sharing (public) style and way of working. I didn't want to deal with that.

Shiori saves a local copy (my default), and I can read it later. I also default it to public share so I can share with people asking for similar topic and such. It is a single Go binary with support for sqlite3, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and MySQL as its database.

Most of the online services such as archivebox.io, raindrop.io, readwise.io, and the plethora of other replacements are cheap enough but I've been long enough on the Internet to know that I have to deal with the loss yet again.

Here is an example of Shiori Saved and Shareable article https://read.oinam.com/bookmark/39/content

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2025/can-i-walk-out/

2. https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

3. https://readeck.org/en/

I have been building https://mozaic.link with a friend for a while. It's a bookmark manager with a funny UI. We wanted to make a product with it and get rich but we have no time and we suck at marketing. I use it everyday though.

BTW Pocket was nice because it saved articles so that you can read them offline with a distraction free experience (we don't do that).

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

Instapaper. It's simple and sleek. Provides direct import from Pocket.

Raindrop.io. Made by a Kazakhstan based dev.

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.

I have a bookmarks folder called "check later" for all the things I'll never get around to reading.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ and a "well-organized filesystem". I'm just kidding, "they're everywhere!". Still, it's what I use.

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.

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/

https://cubox.cc

The greatest feature is that it limits you to 200 items saved on free tier.

I also use https://github.com/yfzhou0904/go-to-kindle to email articles to kindle for reading on the go.

I wrote my own https://reading.ashishb.net

  - it produces readable pages
  - it produces an RSS feed that one can add to any feed reader as well

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)

bookmarking is such a lightweight task (like vpn), compute and storage wise, there is no reason to not self host it. many nice solutions out there, i personally use wallabag. its gets many things right.

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.

I use Zotero and https://pinboard.in.

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

I wish del.icio.us was still a thing.

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.

I've been assembling a list here:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/pocket-exporter#-pocket-altern...

I use https://fabric.so

I wrote a plugin for Obsidian called Slurp which cleans a web page's html and converts it to markdown.

I of course use https://histre.com/ (I made it)

I've been using Instapaper for many years to collect things to read later, and I use Pinboard to archive things that I've read and want to save.

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.

wallabag. Actually been using it for years, with a short detour to the now-gone Omnivore.

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/

Bookmarks and Reader Mode.

Never used Pocket, but I moved to Raindrop.io (from Pinboard) for my bookmarks. I believe it can import Pocket.

Just started using Curio - https://curi.ooo/

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.

Readwise Reader and Obsidian Web Clipper.

pinboard.in

I like the privacy first approach and the web 1.0 look. The tag cloud is pretty neat too

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.

“Add to Reading List” on iOS Safari

https://ln.ht/ isn't bad

Selhosted Wallabag + ReadKit app on iOS synchronized with Wallabag instance.

Raindrop

Some time ago I went to Vivaldi and since then I use its Reading List.

Instapaper

> 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.

Instapaper

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.

I use fika.bar. it's really nice!

Personal setup: 1. Notion web clipper and Instapaper

Work: 1. raindrop.io 2. eagle.cool

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.