[Mozilla](/entry/arc-is-finished-dia-vs-chrome-vs-the-alternatives-2026) shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025, with data export open until November. Millions of people needed a new read-it-later app. Here's where they went.
| Free tier | Paid | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raindrop.io | generous — unlimited bookmarks, good reader view | Pro $28/yr | casual saving, bookmark organizing, cross-browser |
| Matter | yes, usable | $60/yr | design-first reading, AI summaries, text-to-speech |
| Readwise Reader | none — paid from day one | $8.99/mo ($119.88/yr) | serious highlighting and knowledge work |
Raindrop.io is the closest spiritual replacement for casual Pocket users. The free tier is genuinely generous — unlimited bookmarks, nested collections, tags, a clean reading view, browser extensions everywhere — and $28/year for Pro adds full-text search, permanent copies and duplicate detection. If you mostly saved articles to get back to them later, this is the low-friction answer.
Matter is the design lover's pick — a beautiful reading interface, high-quality AI article summaries, and the best text-to-speech of the three (natural voices, good for listening to articles on a walk). It has a real free tier, and Pro is $60/year. Strong if reading experience and audio matter more than deep archival.
Readwise Reader is the power tool. It has no free tier — you're paying $8.99/month from the start — but it's built for people who highlight everything and want those highlights to flow into a knowledge system (it syncs to [Obsidian](/entry/readwise-vs-obsidian-pricing-highlight-curation-vs-knowledge-graphs), [Notion](/entry/notion-versus-readwise-which-subscription-actually-fuels-your-knowledge-workflow), [Logseq](/entry/notion-at-eur-9-5-versus-obsidian-at-4-the-cost-of-structure)). It handles RSS, newsletters, PDFs, EPUBs and web articles in one queue, with the best highlighting and annotation workflow anywhere.
Casual saver who wants free: Raindrop.io. Want a gorgeous reader with good audio: Matter. Highlight-everything knowledge worker: Readwise Reader, and it's worth the subscription for that use.