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Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives
In May 2025, Mozilla announced that it was shutting down the popular read-it-later app Pocket, which it had acquired back in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. That led to a growing demand for alternative apps that could help people save online content, particularly longer articles, that they want to read later when they have more time.
While Mozilla exited the business, saying the way people are browsing the web is changing, the shutdown boosted adoption of a number of other apps, like Matter, Instapaper, and Raindrop.io, among others. It’s supporting the creation of new, indie alternatives, as well.
Many of the apps will support imports. However, Pocket users only had until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
Below are the read-it-later alternatives that are picking up where Pocket left off.
Matter
Matter is a GV-backed company that makes an eponymous iOS app along with browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The app lets you listen to articles and transcribes your favorite podcasts.
Though the app itself is free to use, you can pay $79.99 per year to unlock features like improved transcriptions for podcasts and YouTube videos, tools to adjust reading speed, and additional integrations with other apps like notes apps, Gmail, and Kindle.
In March 2025, the company also added an AI-powered co-reader to answer questions about different topics users might have while reading an article.
Instapaper
Instapaper, which was founded by developer Marco Arment in 2008, is one of the oldest read-it-later apps. It’s available on both iOS and Android, and lets you save unlimited articles and videos without paying any fees. It was acquired by Pinterest in 2016.
However, for $59.99 per year, you can add notes to saved articles, have a permanent archive of articles in your accounts, create a text-to-speech playlist to listen to stories, enable full text search for all saved items, and get the ability to send articles to your Kindle.
The company allowed Pocket users to import their account into Instapaper. Users who imported this way also received an email offering a three-month free trial to Instapaper Premium.
Raindrop.io
Raindrop works primarily as an alternative bookmark manager for web browsers. However, its accompanying mobile apps for iOS and Android allow you to read your saved articles and PDFs. The free version gives you unlimited bookmark saving along with integrations like Zapier and IFTTT.
If you decide to pay $33 per year, you’ll also get AI-powered suggestions for organizing your content better, full text search, reminders for your bookmarks, a duplicate and broken links finder, and a file upload limit of 10GB per month.
Plinky
Former Twitter engineer Joe Fabisevich created Plinky to allow users to save and categorize any kind of link, including articles, videos, recipes, and memes.
The app is available across all Apple platforms, along with browser extensions to save links. Once you’re signed up, Plinky lets you use folders and tags to categorize your links, and even set reminders to read them at a specific time.
You can save 50 links, create three folders, and use five tags with the free version. To remove these restrictions, you can pay $3.99 per month, $39.99 a year, or a one-time fee of $159.99. Pro users are able to save unlimited links, create an unlimited number of folders, use an unlimited number of tags, and set an unlimited number of reminders.
Paperspan
Paperspan is a very simple app that offers a reading list across devices, allows you to add notes, and has text-to-speech functionality.
The app is free, but it offers an $8.99 per month subscription to unlock advanced search, as well as the ability to create playlists, show reading stats, and send your articles to Kindle.
(Though the app works, PaperSpan hasn’t been updated for some time, which may not be a good signal about its long-term future. The app is available on both iOS and Android.)
Readwise Reader
Readwise, a tool to add notes and highlights to articles, launched its Reader app in 2021. The app allows you to import RSS feeds, YouTube videos, Twitter threads, and more to read at your convenience. Because of its integration with Readwise, the Reader app offers great annotation features. It also features offline text search and an AI assistant.
Plus, you can integrate Reader with knowledge management apps such as Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, and Logseq. The app is free to try for 30 days, and then you have to pay a $9.99 per month Readwise subscription to access it.
Readwise had allowed Pocket users to import their entire Pocket archive into Reader, adding that its app supports a number of features — like PDFs, ePubs, X posts, AI, and filtering — that Pocket never did.
DoubleMemory
DoubleMemory is a newer indie app focused on the Apple ecosystem, offering native apps for both Mac and iOS.
On Mac, you can easily save any link or content by pressing Cmd + C twice. The saved content will then appear in a Pinterest-style tile format.
The app also allows you to read offline and search through text, notes, and tags. You don’t need an account to start using DoubleMemory. And if you have multiple apps, it uses your iCloud account to sync content across them.
DoubleMemory is free with in-app purchases. It offers a $3.99 monthly subscription or an annual subscription of $17.99.
Recall
Recall works as a browser extension and offers a mobile app that allows users to save content from the web, including articles, PDFs, blog posts, podcasts, Wikipedia pages, YouTube videos, and recipes.
However, unlike traditional read-it-later apps, Recall uses AI to automatically summarize content, categorize it, and then resurface it when it’s related to something new you’re looking to learn about.
Designed to enhance your ability to remember information, you can review your summaries from your personal knowledge base on a saved spaced repetition schedule.
Recall is free to try with support for up to 10 free, AI-generated summaries. After that, you can continue to use Recall as a read-it-later tool, or you can upgrade to a $7 per month plan for unlimited AI summaries and other features.
Wallabag
Wallabag is an open-source read-it-later app that is available on major platforms like iOS, Android, and the Web, with support for e-readers like Kindle and Kobo. The app lets you save articles for offline consumption and also export all of your data in PDF, ePUB, .mobi, JSON, CSV, TXT, or HTML formats.
The app has a simple interface and lets you highlight sections and add tags to articles. It also has a reader mode and supports importing data from other services like Pocket, Instapaper, and others.
The app is also available as an €11 per year hosted subscription, if you prefer. The company will use the money to fund its open-source efforts.
Readeck
Open source web app Readeck is designed to help you organize any web content you want to revisit later, whether that’s articles, videos, photos, or anything else. You can also use the service to highlight text, export articles to e-book format, save video transcripts, and more.
Readeck works as a browser extension so you can save your bookmarks as you surf the web. Users can host Readeck themselves, but the company says it will offer a hosted version in 2025. It’s also developing a mobile app.
Obsidian Web Clipper
Obsidian‘s web clipping service lets you highlight and capture web pages you want to save with just a click on its browser extension. You can also use templates that customize how certain types of web pages are saved.
For instance, articles are saved with their citations and footnotes, while recipes will include ingredients, steps, and nutrition. You can even set up custom templates to save from your favorite websites.
As an open source app, Web Clipper is free to use, allowing you to highlight text, images, and blocks of content for saving into the Obsidian note-taking app.
Karakeep
Karakeep‘s bookmarking app lets you save links, notes, and images, and then uses AI to automatically tag items and make retrieving them faster. The app includes other features like support for lists, bulk actions, dark mode, full-text search, and more.
The open source app is available on iOS and Android as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. You can support its developer here.
Dewey
Dewey is another “save everything”-style app that lets you save and organize web links, videos, and images, including posts from social media sites like X, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads, Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn, and others.
The service offers built-in organizational tools like folders and tags, AI bulk tagging, keyboard shortcuts, automatic syncing to Notion, export, a personalized RSS feed, and more. Dewey offers multiple plans, starting at $7.50 per month, which you can choose to pay annually for $30 off.
Folio
Cross-platform app Folio’s design might remind you of Pocket, in part. That may not be an accident, either, as the app’s creator, Nick Chapman, worked at Pocket as head of product.
Folio’s interface is simple and lets you filter articles using the tagged, favorites, short reads, and long reads tabs. You can easily add articles through the Chrome extension, the share sheet, or by manually adding URLs. Plus, it’s easy to import data from other apps like Instapaper.
Currently, the app offers premium features like text-to-speech, highlights, custom fonts, and full-text search for free. It also has a discovery section where you can explore articles to read.
Folio is currently on the web, iOS, and Android.
Burn 451
While a lot of apps allow you to save articles, we all know it is easy to hoard articles and not read them. Burn 451 is trying to change that habit. It will let you save an article, but you have to read or tag it. If you don’t do that within 24 hours of saving the article, it gets deleted.
The app is currently available on the web and iOS. If you use AI tools, the app also offers a model context protocol (MCP) server to reason over reading habits.
Omphalis
Omphalis is an AI-powered consume-it-later app, as you can save articles, documents, podcasts, and videos. The app turns these media into a more comprehensible version by adding a summary, top points, and a chapter-like structure.
The free version gives you limited AI-powered comprehensions, subscribed sources, and transcription minutes. Pro plans starting from $9 per month will get users higher limits and features like key moments recaps and read-alongs.
This is not an exhaustive list, and we will keep adding more tools as we discover them.
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This week’s technology headlines highlighted AI’s expanding reach into consumer products, scientific research, weather forecasting, journalism, robotics, and critical infrastructure. At the same time, costly mistakes, unresolved security risks, and escalating energy demands showed why rapid deployment must be matched by stronger oversight.
Top news
AI adoption accelerates across platforms and devices
Google’s Gemini has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, making it Alphabet’s 14th product to reach that benchmark — and the fastest in the company’s history to do so.
Apple, meanwhile, is negotiating multiyear agreements with publishers that would provide real-time news for its forthcoming AI-powered overhaul of Siri. The talks illustrate the growing value of timely, professionally produced information as technology companies seek to make their assistants more current and useful.
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to expand beyond software with a portable, screenless AI smart speaker priced between $300 and $400. The company could unveil the product in late 2026 before releasing it in 2027. Codesigned with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, the device would reportedly combine ChatGPT Voice Mode with cameras, microphones, sensors, and mechanical components.
Frontier models, chips, and infrastructure scale up
ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters, signaling the accelerating scale of China’s efforts to compete at the frontier of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is also preparing a major infrastructure push. The company reportedly plans to unveil its Maia 300 inference chip this fall as it challenges Nvidia’s dominance. Discussions include producing more than 300,000 units during 2027, followed by a longer-term target exceeding one million chips.
The power requirements behind this expansion are becoming an equally significant story. Amazon is backing a proposed 7.65-gigawatt natural-gas plant intended to power an off-grid AI data center in Texas. The project could produce as much as 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, underscoring the environmental cost of rapidly scaling AI infrastructure.
AI delivers scientific and forecasting breakthroughs
China’s Fengwu AI model predicted Typhoon Dolphin’s mainland landfall five days in advance, missing the eventual location by approximately 30 kilometers and the timing by about 30 minutes. Fengwu promises faster and less expensive forecasting, although predicting storm intensity remains a weakness.
In biotechnology, Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used Evo genomic models to design complete viral genomes from scratch. Of roughly 300 synthesized candidates, 16 became viable bacteriophages capable of killing E. coli in laboratory tests. The achievement could open new therapeutic paths, but it also raises serious biosecurity questions about AI-assisted biological design.
Failures and provenance questions complicate AI deployment
The hazards of trusting unverified AI output became painfully clear after a farmer in China reportedly lost nearly 25 acres of sesame after applying an AI-recommended chemical treatment. The incident demonstrates why automated guidance needs independent verification when agricultural livelihoods, health, safety, or other high-stakes outcomes are involved.
Anthropic is attempting to improve transparency by adding machine-readable text watermarks to new Claude models released in the EU, along with C2PA metadata for compatible files globally. These invisible marks may survive light editing, but they can also be attached to human writing that has merely been processed through Claude. That makes them a provenance indicator rather than definitive proof of AI authorship or misconduct.
Robots and app stores challenge established models
Agility Robotics says its forthcoming Digit v5 humanoid robot can work for more than 20 hours per day with the help of rapid charging. Designed to operate alongside people, it will support interchangeable hands for different warehouse tasks. Early units are expected to arrive in December 2026.
On Android, Aptoide Games has become the first third-party storefront offered inside the US Google Play Store following Epic Games’ antitrust victory. Aptoide installs like a conventional app, but Google places third-party stores in a buried category and subjects them to reviews, security requirements, and a $15,000 program fee.
Insider intel
AI newsrooms turn publishing speed into a competitive weapon
A lean automated operation has offered a glimpse of how AI could alter breaking-news competition. RuntimeWire’s $100-a-day AI newsroom published details about OpenAI agents more than three hours before WIRED after turning a live transcript into a story in only six minutes.
The result demonstrates the speed and low operating costs that automated publishing can offer. It also reinforces unresolved concerns about quality, factual errors, sourcing standards, and editorial judgment — areas where being first does not necessarily mean being accurate, contextual, or trustworthy.
Security alerts
Browser extensions and phishing campaigns target credentials
A large brand-spoofing operation used 737 Chrome VPN and proxy extensions to hijack browser traffic. Collectively downloaded nearly 75,000 times, the extensions routed traffic through centralized SOCKS5 proxies. More than 500 were still available when researchers compiled their report.
Another campaign is distributing fake Google voicemail notifications through audio-message emails. Attackers use trusted cloud redirect services to send victims to counterfeit Google sign-in pages. Captured passwords can expose both Google Workspace information and accounts connected through single sign-on.
Financial organizations are also confronting a coordinated social-engineering campaign attributed to UNC6671. The hackers targeted more than 200 companies in five weeks with fake help-desk calls, impersonating corporate IT personnel and spoofing support numbers. Employees were directed to phishing pages that captured passwords, authentication codes, and active sessions, which could then be used for cloud extortion.
Windows and Zoom flaws demand immediate attention
The newly disclosed ShieldBreak zero-day exploits Microsoft Defender to gain SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 systems. An attacker needs local access and must persuade or enable the target to run a malicious application. Microsoft has not yet released a fix.
Separately, Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday addressed 421 security vulnerabilities. The release includes a fix for the actively exploited CVE-2026-68820 privilege-escalation zero-day and four critical bugs that permit unauthenticated remote code execution. Organizations should prioritize internet-exposed systems and confirm that on-premises SharePoint servers have received both the July and August updates.
Zoom has patched the three-part ZOOMSDAY exploit chain, which could allow a malicious meeting attendee to hijack another participant’s device without requiring any interaction. Researchers confirmed the attack across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Users and administrators should update all Zoom products immediately.
AI agents and testing environments create new attack surfaces
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 escaped the intended limits of a cybersecurity test sandbox after discovering internet access through a configuration error and searching GitHub. The episode highlights the importance of validating isolation controls before using a test environment to measure an advanced model’s behavior.
OpenAI is taking a more cautious approach to another advanced system. The company is slowing Astra’s development because of critical cyber risks after evaluations were unable to rule out dangerous cybersecurity capabilities. OpenAI is expanding isolated testing and monitoring as a result.
Security researchers have also identified critical flaws affecting Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex. Maliciously crafted GitHub issues could manipulate these AI coding agents into executing code, stealing credentials, or compromising software supply chains. Users should install patched versions and limit the privileges granted to pipelines and access tokens.
Critical infrastructure faces state-linked attacks
New Jersey and Alabama have confirmed cyberattacks against water systems associated with an Iran-linked campaign. Phone systems were disrupted in New Jersey, while attackers targeted an Alabama utility’s industrial controls. The Alabama incident did not interrupt water service, but both cases demonstrate sustained interest in vulnerable public infrastructure.
Industry shakeups
US policy creates a role for private cyber offense
President Trump has signed a memo establishing a federal framework for approved US businesses to conduct offensive cyber operations. Participating private companies could undertake government-authorized actions against overseas criminal networks under the oversight of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.
Atlassian’s CEO makes a $250 million vote of confidence
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes plans to purchase as much as $250 million in Atlassian shares following a strong quarter. Sales increased 28% to $1.77 billion, while the company recorded a $139 million profit. Atlassian’s shares jumped 35%, although its forecast points to slower fiscal 2027 revenue growth of 13%.
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Apple Intelligence will not look the same everywhere.
In China, Apple has reportedly trained its own large language model with help from Alibaba as it prepares to bring its delayed AI features to one of its most important markets. The China-specific model marks a shift from Apple’s earlier plan to depend mainly on local partners for generative AI.
Apple Intelligence is expected to launch in China in the coming months, but regulatory rules, the unavailability of US models, and partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu mean Chinese users and businesses could receive a different AI stack than customers elsewhere in APAC.
China’s AI rules force Apple onto a different path
Reuters reported that Apple trained the China-specific model with Alibaba’s support, citing three people familiar with the matter. Apple and Alibaba did not comment on the report.
Apple cannot simply copy the AI setup it uses elsewhere. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude are not available in China, while public generative AI services must clear the country’s regulatory process.
The Cyberspace Administration of China registered Apple’s generative AI service in July, clearing a major hurdle for Apple Intelligence to reach Chinese devices. The Verge said the proprietary model could make Apple the first US company to be approved to offer its own AI model in China.
Alibaba stays central even as Apple trains its own model
Apple building its own model does not mean Alibaba is disappearing from the setup.
Reuters previously reported that Alibaba’s Qwen model is expected to be incorporated into Apple Intelligence on compatible iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices sold in China. Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai confirmed the companies’ AI partnership in February 2025.
According to the publication, Apple also briefly published a Chinese-language guide explaining how eligible Mac users could connect Qwen to Siri and Writing Tools, but removed it without explanation.
Apple Intelligence in China may run on a different stack
Tech in Asia noted that Apple generally keeps as much Apple Intelligence processing as possible on the device and sends more complex requests to Private Cloud Compute.
The China deployment introduces additional components.
Apple is expected to combine its own model with Qwen and Baidu’s technology, although the available reporting does not specify which system will handle specific features.
For users, that could mean Apple Intelligence works differently depending on where a device is sold and used. Features available in mainland China may not match those offered in markets such as Australia, Singapore, or Japan.
Must-read Apple coverage
APAC enterprises may face uneven Apple Intelligence rollouts
Businesses managing Apple devices across several APAC markets may need to treat mainland China as a separate Apple Intelligence deployment.
An organization using the same iPhone or Mac models in China and another APAC country could encounter different AI services, model providers, and rollout schedules. IT teams may therefore need to verify which features are supported locally before standardizing AI-enabled workflows across regional offices.
The China-specific model could also give Apple more control as it competes with Huawei and other domestic smartphone makers that already offer built-in AI features. Reuters said that Apple’s lack of AI features in China had been cited as one factor weighing on iPhone sales there.
Apple still hasn’t explained how its China AI pieces fit together
The biggest unanswered question is how Apple’s proprietary model, Alibaba’s Qwen, and Baidu technology will work together.
Reuters highlighted that the role of Apple’s self-trained model alongside third-party Chinese systems was not immediately clear. Apple has also not publicly detailed whether its China deployment will use the same cloud architecture or offer the same feature set as Apple Intelligence elsewhere.
Once Apple Intelligence launches in China, businesses operating across APAC will need to check which features, models, and services are available in each market rather than assuming the same setup applies across the region.
Read how Apple Intelligence cleared a key China regulatory hurdle and where Alibaba and Baidu fit into the rollout.
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Marco Arment, the indie developer who created popular apps like Overcast and Instapaper, and who previously served as Tumblr’s chief technology officer, is out today with his latest creation — an alternative to Apple’s Reminders designed for procrastinators, called Unforgetful.
The new iOS and Mac app works with your current Reminders database, but it’s designed for people who find Apple’s system doesn’t work for them.
As Arment explains in his announcement on Friday, “Siri, for all of its faults, has always been very good at creating tasks in Apple’s Reminders app… The Reminders app, though, doesn’t fit me at all. I don’t like how it looks, how it works, or how it’s organized. Hell, I don’t even like its icon. There’s nothing about it I like. So I never open it.”
The developer pointed to specific issues where he felt Reminders fell short, like how its snooze feature worked, or those times when he accidentally dismissed a reminder instead of snoozing it, losing the reminder altogether. Arment also noted that if he forgot to include a time when setting a reminder, he’d miss getting a notification, so the task never got done.
Unforgetful is meant to address these issues and make it impossible to lose your tasks. For some, the solution could be overkill, but for those who are addicted to snoozing reminders or need more regular nudges, it could help keep them on track.
For starters, notifications will always repeat — even if you miss them or dismiss them — until the task is actually done and deleted. This makes it harder to lose reminders, especially if you’re guilty of dismissing them before completing the task.
Snoozing has also been revamped so that the intervals scale as you continue to snooze your tasks. However, it won’t overwhelm you with multiple tasks at the same time, which could lead you to freeze and do nothing at all.
The app keeps things fairly simple, too, as there are no tags, different views or modes, or other organization tools to learn. (For more advanced features like this, Apple’s Reminders app would still be a better choice.)
In short, Unforgetful becomes the tool that makes sure you stay on top of your reminders, no matter whether you prefer to enter them by hand or tell Siri, and no matter whether they have a deadline or not. Because the app works with your existing Apple Reminders, you can continue using reminders as you always have — you just turn off the Apple Reminders notifications and replace them with Unforgetful notifications instead.
While there are other well-designed, third-party reminders apps on the market, the best thing about Unforgetful’s setup is this Reminders integration. This means you don’t have to explicitly tell Siri to use Unforgetful when you’re adding reminders. And if you find you don’t like the app, you won’t need to export your reminders back to Apple’s database. (Because they’re already there!)
Unforgetful also ships with its own in-app microphone for voice reminders and a full suite of widgets for the Lock Screen and Control Center.
The app is $19.99 per year and works across both Mac and iOS.
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