Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.
By Read It Later, Inc
- Category: News
- Release Date: 2009-04-09
- Current Version: 7.29.9
- Adult Rating: 4+
- File Size: 112.15 MB
- Developer: Read It Later, Inc
- Compatibility: iOS 13.0+
Description
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. Pocket is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, the web, and any other phone or tablet. You can also save to Pocket with our browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari Learn more at https://getpocket.com/. --- Upgrade to Pocket Premium for a more powerful Pocket experience ($4.99 monthly, $44.99 annually): • Permanent Library to keep a personal backup of what you save • Full-Text searching to find anything in your list • Suggested Tags to get organized fast. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your account will be charged $4.99 (monthly) or $44.99 (yearly) for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. It will not be possible to immediately cancel a subscription. You can manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Refunds are not available for unused portions of a subscription. Pocket Privacy Policy: https://getpocket.com/privacy Pocket Terms of Service: https://getpocket.com/tos
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Reviews
Buggy as all get out
Very hard to used. Articles fail to sync and vanish, I have to keep recreating tags, and the UI is finicky and sometimes bugs out bad enough I have to kill the app and restart it. Good idea horrible execution. Shocked it has so many good reviews – maybe it’s the latest version, or maybe there just isn’t a better option. About the only thing I find worthwhile versus Safari’s reading list is tagging, so I can mark things as research, etc. Pocket’s recommendations sounds nice but this far it has never recommended something I actually want to read so… meh. Also, the Mac OS/X “save to pocket” applet for Safari no longer works (as of Ventura 13.1, anyhow). It hasn’t been updated in years, and doesn’t support M1 Macs. Look elsewhere… or just use Safari’s reading list.
Go to app..
…half a dozen times a day. Articles, recipes, you name it, the most useful app I own aside from gmail.
Full-text search is a false promise
Lots of things to like about Pocket. The ability to use multiple tags, highlighting, and your archived articles are backed up by by Pocket (paid version ) so if the link goes bad, you’ve still got it. Here’s what I don’t like. The search function is nearly useless. The free version will search your saved articles by title with about a 20% success. The full-text search (paid version) simply DOES NOT WORK and never has. Tech help is non-responsive.
The tool I use Everyday
During my morning scan of news etc sites I just save articles so I can get to them later. The audio function is good especially during commutes around town.
Asks you to sign up first🤢
Honestly i never tried the app because i despise the fact that you’re forced to sign up and enter your personal information to obtain a feature that many developers offer without any registration.
Needs a text-to-speech model upgrade
Otherwise, the app is GREAT to consolidate all my content for when I have time to read, listen and/or watch it.
Failure of capturing
I guess it is a beatufil idea to create an app like this. Nevertheless, it doesn’t capture the whole article. I have only the first paragraphs. I am not sure if there is anybody who also experienced this problem before, but I have to say it is annoying because I have to highlight the last part of the article, so please inform me!
Love Pocket
Pocket is the best as early in the day I can choose what I want to read and come back to it whenever I want that day or a week later occasionally. Great service which I use every day! Thank you!
Won’t load any recommendations
Keeps telling me to check my connection even when I know for a fact my device is connected
Images not loading
I don’t know whether it’s a bug from a recent update but on previous versions of the app, I was able to images that were in the original article in Pocket. All I get now is text and the banner image
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