Free Web-based Pocket Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Pocket as a web app and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best free Online alternative is wallabag, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Pocket and many of them are free and available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Online alternatives to Pocket are Raindrop.io, Instapaper, Inoreader and Linkwarden.

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  1. start.me icon
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    Advanced bookmark manager offering personalized start pages with RSS feeds, browser extensions, and widgets like weather and stocks. Features include broken link checks, theme customization, cross-device accessibility, and more, enhancing efficiency across web browsers and mobile platforms.

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    • Vivaldi
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  2. wallabag icon
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    wallabag has many of the features that Pocket has and is a great and totally free alternative. The reading experience is clean and free from distractions. What makes it even more attractive is the fact that it’s open source and can be self-hosted, which makes it a good solution if you value privacy. If you need hosting, wallabag offers a competitive price for only €9 per year. With migration tools for Pocket, Instapaper, and more, existing users of those services can switch quickly to wallabag. There are apps and plugins for many operating systems, RSS readers, and browsers, but their quality is not always equal. There’s an API so developers can build their own apps or get involved in the open source project.

    139 wallabag alternatives

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    • Cloudron
    • Opera
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  3. Raindrop.io icon
     567 likes

    Raindrop.io is a solution that is very similar to Pocket when it comes to features, ease of use, and organization. The user interface is modern, clean, and customizable with themes. Unlike Pocket, you can collaborate with your friends or coworkers to edit and read the same content saved from the web. There is a free version that has all the basic features most people need, but the Pro plan offers a lot of additional pro features like full-text search, Dropbox backup, permanent library, priority support, and a duplicate links finder tool. It has clients for most browsers, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and a web version. Unfortunately, like Pocket and most alternatives to it, there is no Linux version.

    251 Raindrop.io alternatives

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    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
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    • Yandex Browser
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  4. Instapaper icon
     245 likes

    Instapaper has been around longer than most read-it-later services and bookmarking apps, and it is still a relevant and powerful Pocket alternative. In fact, the two apps share most features and both offer a free and premium plan. Instapaper's free plan offers saving unlimited blog posts, articles, videos, etc. and syncing them across the iOS app, Android app, and the web service. The Premium version costs $2.99 per month and lets you use full-text search, save unlimited notes, get an ad free experience, and more. If you use a Mac, then the lack of an Instapaper Mac app is a con compared to Pocket, which offers one via the Mac App Store.

    160 Instapaper alternatives

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  5. Inoreader icon
     1463 likes

    Aggregate feeds from RSS, social media, and newsletters with advanced filtering, OPML management, website monitoring, IFTTT automation, cloud syncing, text-to-speech, dark mode, and collaboration tools for flexible and efficient content consumption across devices.

    324 Inoreader alternatives

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  6. Linkwarden icon
     59 likes

    A fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages.

    87 Linkwarden alternatives

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  7. Curio icon
     34 likes

    Capture web links and newsletters, organize articles with tags, notes, and highlights, search a personal library, and read clean text online or offline in a focused Markdown viewer. Planned features include AI summaries, PDF extraction, and mobile apps.

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  8. Diigo icon
     307 likes

    Save web resources, annotate pages and PDFs, highlight and add sticky notes, organize collections with Outliner, sync across devices, filter by tags and folders, share with groups, and access advanced search and flexible privacy for individual or collaborative research projects.

    141 Diigo alternatives

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  9. If you’re an Evernote user already, then you might want to use the Evernote Web Clipper feature as a replacement for Pocket. The free plan of Evernote allows users to save web content to their Evernote account, but in order to read them offline you need to pay for a Premium or Business plan. You can save the entire web page (or just a selection of it) and read it in a clean format later. Evernote also offers great tagging and organization into different categories or notebooks.

    231 Evernote Web Clipper alternatives

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    • Microsoft Edge
    • Internet Explorer
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  10. Refind icon
     54 likes

    Discover, save, and read what's worth your attention.

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  11. Keep Mates icon
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    Save anything you find on the web design inspiration, articles, products, links and organize it into your personal, local first Chrome extension.

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  12. Brace.to icon
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    Your bookmark manager with privacy at heart. Brace.to helps you save links to everything and visit them later easily, anytime, on any of your devices. Powered by Stacks technology, all your saved links are encrypted, and only you can decrypt them and see the content inside.

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    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mozilla Firefox
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  13. Cool Stuff icon
     16 likes

    Visual bookmarking tool for saving links, articles, designs, music, and more with no ads, social features, or algorithms. Offers fast search, device sync, public or private sharing, browser extensions, privacy focus, and a simple, creative workflow for all users.

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