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 Online alternative is wallabag, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Pocket and many of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to Pocket are Raindrop.io, Instapaper, Inoreader and Diigo.

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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.

    149 start.me alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
  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.

    109 wallabag alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Cloudron
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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  3. Raindrop.io icon
     554 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.

    210 Raindrop.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Yandex Browser
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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  4. Instapaper icon
     244 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.

    120 Instapaper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Google Chrome
    • Kindle Fire
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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  5. Inoreader icon
     1462 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.

    301 Inoreader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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  6. Diigo icon
     306 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.

    131 Diigo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  7. Curio icon
     29 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Docker
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  8. start.me icon
     244 likes

    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.

    149 start.me alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  9. Tagpacker icon
     129 likes

    Tagpacker is more of a bookmarking platform than a fully-featured solution to save and consume content on the web. If you prefer to save links and read them in their original format on the website it was first published, then Tagpacker could be a good and free alternative to Pocket. The lack of apps for Android and other systems is a con for some, but the features for collecting, organizing, and searching for your content is considered extensive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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  10. Pinboard icon
     157 likes

    Pinboard is a bookmarking website intended for people who want to reliably keep track of large numbers of links. Its goals are to be useful, fight bloat, keep things fast, and stay small. Social bookmarking for introverts. m.pinboard.

    136 Pinboard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. 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.

    209 Evernote Web Clipper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Internet Explorer
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  12. Refind icon
     53 likes

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

    100 Refind alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
     
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