# Pocket Shut Down Last Week – Everything You Need to Know

> Pocket, the popular read-it-later app, is shutting down today. Find out what you need to know—alternatives, deadlines, and what happens next.

- Author: Marius Bongarts
- Published: 2025-07-07
- Updated: 2025-07-12
- Reading time: 2 min
- URL: https://web-highlights.com/blog/pocket-shuts-down-tomorrow-everything-you-need-to-know/

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What was announced months ago became reality: Pocket — the popular web clipper, read-it-later, and content discovery app by Mozilla — is shut down.

I'll keep it short here - here is what you need to know:

-   You could use Pocket until July 8, 2025.
-   You can export your Pocket data until **October 8, 2025** .
-   Pocket will  **delete all user data permanently** after October 8, 2025.

If you're curious about the reasons behind the shutdown or looking for a good Pocket alternative, check out this article:

> [**Pocket Shuts Down in July 2025 - The 10 Best Alternatives**](https://web-highlights.com/blog/pocket-shuts-down-in-july-2025-the-10-best-alternatives/) — Pocket, the popular read-it-later app, is shutting down in July 2025. Discover the 10 best alternatives to save, highlight and organize web content (Marius Bongarts)

## Takeaways

If you're still using Pocket, make sure to find a good alternative as it has shut down already.

Look for a tool like [Web Highlights](https://web-highlights.com/) that lets you [import all your Pocket data](https://web-highlights.com/blog/how-to-export-pocket-saves-and-import-to-webhighlights/) , so you can pick up right where you left off—maybe even with more powerful features than Pocket offered.

Most importantly, don't miss the deadline to export your Pocket data until **October 8, 2025** . After that, all of your data will be gone, if not backed up.

### Best Pocket Alternatives

In our article [Pocket Shuts Down in July 2025 - The 10 Best Alternatives](https://web-highlights.com/blog/pocket-shuts-down-in-july-2025-the-10-best-alternatives/) we collected a list of tools that are the best alternatives for Pocket.

Here is a quick overview of the top Pocket alternatives:

1.  [Web Highlights](https://web-highlights.com/)
2.  [Recall](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/recall-or-summarize-anything-forget-nothing)
3.  [Milanote](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/milanote-web-clipper)
4.  [Instapaper](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/instapaper)
5.  [Raindrop](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/raindrop-io)
6.  [Save to Notion](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/save-to-notion)
7.  [OneNote Web Clipper](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/onenote-web-clipper)
8.  [Evernote Web Clipper](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/evernote-web-clipper)
9.  [Matter](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/matter)
10.  [Obsidian Web Clipper](https://tooltivity.com/extensions/obsidian-web-clipper)

> [**How to Export Pocket Data and Import to Web Highlights**](https://web-highlights.com/blog/how-to-export-pocket-saves-and-import-to-webhighlights/) — Pocket shuts down in July 2025. Learn how to export your Pocket saves & annotations and import them into Web Highlights—the best Pocket alternative. (Marius Bongarts)

> [**Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations**](https://web-highlights.com/) — Best highlighter for the web. Just like you do on books, highlight on any web page or PDF, and take notes. Organize with tags and find your research in the app. (Marius Bongarts)