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Pocket has shut down. What to use on iPhone and Mac instead

Updated 13 October 2026. 3 minute read.

Pocket was the read-later app for a lot of people for a very long time. Mozilla shut it down in July 2025. If you were a user, you went through the routine that follows every such closure: export what you can, look for somewhere else, and wonder how long the next one will last.

This article is about that last question. Picking a replacement is less about features than about not having to move again.

What the shutdown taught

A read-later library grows for years. The longer you use one, the more it is worth and the harder it is to leave. That makes two things matter more than any feature:

• Where the library is stored. If it lives only on a company's servers, it exists as long as the company wants to run them.
• Whether you can take it with you. A full export, in formats other software can read, is the difference between moving house and losing the house.

A checklist for the replacement

Can I export everything, at any time? Not only links, but notes and files, in open formats such as CSV, JSON, Markdown or a bookmarks file.

Where does my data live? On a service, on my device, or in storage I control.

How is it paid for? A free service with no visible income depends on someone continuing to fund it. Know what you are relying on.

Does it need an account? An account is one more thing that can be closed, breached or forgotten.

Does search find things by subject? After a few years you will have thousands of items. Title search stops being enough well before that.

Does it run on my devices? All of them, including the computer.

Where Stashy fits

Stashy does the core job Pocket did: you save a link from the Share Sheet and it is in your library with its title and picture. Around that it makes some different choices.

• Your library is in your own iCloud, not on Stashy's servers, because there are none. If the app disappeared tomorrow, your data would still be on your devices.
• No account. Nothing to sign up for.
• Export built in: JSON, a spreadsheet, Markdown, browser bookmarks, or a full archive with every stored file. See exporting from Stashy.
• Search by subject. Each save is read on your device and gets a summary and hidden keywords, so you can search for what a page was about. It works across languages.
• More than links. Photos, PDFs and other files, notes, voice memos and scans go into the same library.
• Free.

Where it does not fit

It is better to hear this before you install it.

• Apple devices only. iPhone, iPad and Mac. There is no Android app, no Windows app and no web version.
• Recent systems only. It needs iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26, and the summaries need a device that supports Apple Intelligence.
• It is a library, not a reading app. There are no highlights and no text to speech.

If you read on Android or want highlighting, look elsewhere. If your devices are all Apple and what you mainly want is to keep things and find them again, it is worth a try.

Whatever you choose

Run the export on day one, before you have saved anything important. If it is missing, hidden or incomplete, you have learned what you needed to know while leaving is still easy.