productivity

Pocket

getpocket.com | Shut down July 8, 2025

Read-it-later done well, retired by its owner after more than a decade.

What it did

Pocket saved articles and videos for later reading across devices, with offline reading, tagging and recommendations. Mozilla acquired it in 2017 and bundled it into Firefox.

The facts, as reported

Mozilla announced in May 2025 that it was discontinuing Pocket. The apps and service stopped working on July 8, 2025, with an export window for saved data afterwards.

Pocket (Wikipedia)
reporting | 7/8/2025
"Mozilla discontinued Pocket in 2025, with the service ceasing to function on July 8, 2025."
Future of Pocket (Mozilla Support)
discontinuation_notice | 5/22/2025
"Mozilla published shutdown timing and data export instructions for Pocket users."

Marketur analysis, not fact

Pocket was popular, mature and integrated into a browser, and it still lost the internal argument. Owners reallocate. A product can be liked by millions and still be the cheapest thing on the list to cut when the parent narrows its focus.

What to take from it

Being acquired by a mission-driven company is not permanent shelter.
Export your data before you need to. The window is short.
Popularity does not decide the roadmap. The owner's priorities do.