Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.

Save, read & listen to your favorite news, stories & videos from across the web.

Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.

App stats

Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-11-26)
Creation date: 2011-03-09
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • use accounts on the device
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

THE PLACE TO ABSORB GREAT CONTENT.
Use Pocket to capture the content that comes at you all day long, and curate your own space filled with only the topics you care about. Save the latest stories, articles, news, sports and videos from any device, and any publisher or app. Then fuel your mind with a reading, watching, and listening experience designed for calm eyes, free hands, and fresh focus.

SAVE FROM ANYWHERE.
Save the latest news, magazine articles, stories, videos, recipes, web pages, how-to information – anything you discover online or subscribe to, from any publisher. User favorites include: New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Flipboard, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Lifehacker, Business Insider, The Verge, BBC News, Google News, Buzzfeed, Vox, engadget, Medium, Newsweek, Twitter, Youtube.

REST YOUR EYES. FIND YOUR FOCUS.
Pocket’s clean layout and customizable display make for a relaxing reading experience that clears out the visual clutter, gives your eyes a rest, and lets your mind focus on the information at hand. Love long reads? Pocket’s typography and layout keep reading comfortable for longer stretches. Love to read before bed? Try our new dark and sepia themes to reduce visual stimulation before you sleep.

LISTEN TO ARTICLES.
Pocket’s listen feature turns any news story, article, or blog post into a hands-free, eyes-free learning experience. Now you can turn content into knowledge while you cook, commute, work out, walk, or just relax and listen.

READ EVERYWHERE.
If it’s in your Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet and computer – even when you’re offline. Whether you’re taking a news break, reading from bed, or breezing through articles on your commute, Pocket makes the most of your time by getting you straight to the news feeds, magazine articles, stories, information, news, and sports that are compelling to you. And estimated reading times help you turn any time into quality time.

DISCOVER MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE.
Find more of what you love but might otherwise have missed. Pocket surfaces ‘best of web’ content discovered by our users, verified by our curators, and approved by our editors. Find all kinds of topics from all kinds of publishers, including quality magazines and news sources like Fast Company, The Verge, Medium, Quartz, Harvard Business Review and more.

MAKE IT PREMIUM. AND PERMANENT.
Power users can upgrade anytime to Pocket Premium for features like advanced search, unlimited highlights and automatic article backups.

You can also save to Pocket with our browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari
Learn more at https://getpocket.com/.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Great way to save articles for later reading
  • Simplifies text and removes ad bloat from sources
  • Organization and tagging features are helpful
  • Discovery system for new articles is impressive
  • Cross-device availability is very convenient
Cons
  • Recent updates have removed valuable features
  • Search functionality is poor and returns irrelevant results
  • Syncing issues and errors reported frequently
  • Problems with article view functionality
  • Dark theme usability issues in the 'Find in page' feature
Most mentioned
  • Dissatisfaction with recent updates and feature removals
  • Issues with search functionality and syncing
  • General decline in app quality over time
  • Request for restoration of removed features
  • Desire for better text-to-speech and highlight capabilities
User reviews
Pocket used to be great on my e-ink device, but they needlessly removed page-flipping/pagination, a pointless move which ruined Pocket on e-ink devices (a large market of readers, the very people Pocket appeals to, all given the finger). There's a developer response here from a year ago, well nothing's changed. I clung to Version 7 as long as I could, now it doesn't work, Pocket show no interest in restoring it.
by S B, 2024-10-29

Edit 2: after paying for premium and its full text search, the search functionality is basically useless. I can put in the exact title of a saved article and it will not show up in the first batch of results. I've never seen a worse search functionality. I only pay for premium bc of the extra highlights but I'm considering stopping my sub so my search will work again.
by Garrison Lovely, 2024-10-21

Every time I try to sync I get a BAD REQUEST Error. Every update seems to add to the problems. Previous review: I think the latest version that worked for me was 8.1.1.0. Now I can't download web view (now called original view) so I have to be online (which defeats the purpose of saving for later) and on top of that most of the time the article view is not available! And also if a site demands loging in to view the page, I need to be online and log-in every single time!
by A Google user, 2024-10-17
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