On July 8, 2025, Mozilla shut down Pocket. After 13 years of saving articles, videos, and links, millions of users suddenly needed a new home for their reading lists — and a way to rescue what they’d already saved.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably trying to do one of two things: get your Pocket data out, or figure out where to go next. This article covers both.

Is the Pocket export still available? As of the shutdown, Pocket’s export tool may no longer be accessible through the normal account settings. If you still have access, use it immediately. If the export is no longer available, the data may be unrecoverable — which is exactly the kind of risk that local-first apps like Tuckii are designed to prevent.

How to export your Pocket data (while you still can)

Pocket offered a data export through its account settings. If the export page is still accessible:

  1. Go to getpocket.com/export (or log in and navigate to Account → Export).
  2. Click Export HTML file. Pocket generates a file called something like ril_export.html.
  3. Download the file and save it somewhere you won’t lose it — a folder on your desktop, a cloud drive, an external drive. This file is your entire Pocket history.

What’s in the export file?

Pocket’s export is an HTML file (not a CSV, not a JSON). It contains:

  • The URL of every saved item.
  • The title (as Pocket recorded it — sometimes truncated or missing).
  • A timestamp of when you saved it.
  • Any tags you assigned.
  • Whether the item was in your unread list or archive.

What’s not included: the full article text, thumbnails, reading progress, highlights, or notes. Those lived on Pocket’s servers and weren’t included in the user export.

What to do with the export file

The HTML file is human-readable — you can open it in any browser and see your list. But you probably want something more useful than an HTML file to browse.

Be honest: most of what’s in your Pocket archive is stale. Articles from 2019 you never got around to reading. Links to sites that no longer exist. Product research for things you already bought or decided against.

A more practical approach: open the HTML file, skim through the titles, and manually save the ones that are still genuinely useful into whatever app you’re moving to. This takes 30–60 minutes for a large archive but leaves you with a clean, relevant library rather than importing thousands of outdated links.

Option 2: Import into a bookmark manager that supports Pocket format

Some bookmark managers accept Pocket’s HTML export directly. Raindrop.io, for example, has a Pocket import option that reads the ril_export.html file and creates a collection from it. The process varies by app but is usually in Settings → Import.

Worth noting: bulk imports often result in the same problem as the Pocket archive — a large collection of links you don’t actually use, just in a different app. The manual curation approach (Option 1) usually produces better long-term results.

Why Pocket’s shutdown matters beyond the inconvenience: Pocket had tens of millions of users and the backing of Mozilla. It still shut down. This is a reminder that any service storing your data in the cloud can disappear — and when it does, getting your data out quickly becomes urgent. A local-first app stores your links on your device; there’s no server to go dark, no account to lose access to, no export deadline.

Where to go after Pocket

The right Pocket replacement depends on what you actually used Pocket for. Most people used it for one of two things:

  • Read-it-later articles — long reads you wanted to consume at a better time, often with Pocket’s text-view for distraction-free reading.
  • General link saving — any URL you wanted to remember, whether it was an article, a product, a tool, or a video.

If you primarily want a distraction-free reading experience with text extraction and highlighting, Readwise Reader or Instapaper are the closest matches to Pocket’s reading experience.

If you want a private, no-account link library that works for any URL from any app — Tuckii fits. Your links stay on your device. There’s nothing that can shut down and take your data with it. And the one-tap save from the share sheet covers every platform Pocket didn’t: TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, podcasts.

A lesson from the Pocket shutdown

Services that store your data in the cloud have a dependency you don’t control: the company has to keep existing, keep paying for servers, and keep prioritizing your data. When they stop — due to shutdown, acquisition, or pivot — your data is at risk.

The only data you truly control is data stored locally, on a device you own. That’s the model Tuckii is built on. No account, no cloud, no single point of failure. Your links are in a local database on your phone; uninstalling the app deletes the data, but no external event can take it from you.

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