Pocket, Mozilla’s service for saving articles to read later, is shutting down on July 8, 2025. Mozilla says it’s phasing out Pocket and Fakespot, a browser extension for checking product reviews, in an effort to “be mindful of where we invest our time and resources” as the company continues to support Firefox.
Starting today, May 22, Pocket is no longer available for download, and you can’t subscribe to Pocket Premium. Mozilla says existing annual and monthly subscriptions will be automatically canceled, and annual subscriptions will be fully refunded on July 8. You have until October 8 to export your data from Pocket before Mozilla deletes it, and the Pocket API, which allows apps and devices to access your saved articles, will be shut down on the same day.
The Fakespot website, browser extension, and app will be unavailable starting July 1, 2025, and you’ll lose access to Firefox’s Review Checker feature (the feature powered by Fakespot) even earlier, on June 10. Mozilla acquired Fakespot in 2023 to “help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-enhancing technologies,” but the company says that “while the idea resonated, it didn’t fit into a model we could support.”
Pocket lived an even longer life at Mozilla as one of the last OG read-it-later apps. Mozilla acquired the service in 2017, but Pocket had been around for a decade before that, first launching in 2007 as a browser extension called Read It Later before being renamed Pocket in 2012.
Like Instapaper, Pocket promised to take an article URL and turn the page into an ad-free, easy-to-read document that you could access even when you weren’t using a browser. Some modern browsers have built-in “Reader” modes that can do the same thing on demand, but Pocket allowed you to archive the whole thing for later, even if the page was deleted.
Without Pocket, the best alternatives are Instapaper, which got a new lease on life when it was acquired by Pinterest in 2018, and Readwise Reader, which combines “read later” features and the ability to view e-book excerpts in a single app. For more instructions on how to salvage your Pocket data before it’s deleted, Mozilla offers an online guide.
