after pocket
Pocket made save-for-later mainstream and served readers well for 17 years. This page is not a victory lap. It is the reason IKI keeps your library as files.
The timeline, plainly: Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. Users had until October 8 to export their data, with a brief extension to around November 6. After that, everything was permanently deleted. Premium subscribers were refunded automatically, which is more grace than most shutdowns manage. And still: every reading list that missed the window is gone, not because anyone was careless, but because the saves only ever existed inside a service. That is the lesson. A hosted save-for-later can vanish, however good its intentions. IKI's answer is structural: your library is markdown files on your own device, so there is no server whose shutdown could take it away.
| Pocket (2007 to 2025) | iki | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (annual) | Was free with a Premium tier; refunds were automatic at shutdown | Free plan; $49/yr Pro, or $6.99/mo. Founder: $99 once |
| Free tier | Was generous, while the service existed | Yes: unlimited saves, on-device AI, 3 recipes |
| Where your data lives | Mozilla's servers; deleted after November 2025 | Your device |
| Data format / export | CSV and HTML, during a three-month export window | Markdown files, already on your hardware; no window needed |
| Works offline | Downloaded articles did; the apps no longer work | Yes, offline-first |
| What survives a shutdown | The export file, if you made one in time | Everything; the library is files on your device, shutdown-proof by design |
| Ask your library | No | Yes, with citations; says "not in your library" when it isn't |
| No account needed | No, account required | Yes, no account, ever |
| Import path into IKI | The CSV or HTML export you kept | IKI reads both; links are fetched and read on your phone |
Competitor details checked August 2026; shutdown dates are from Mozilla's published timeline.
It made one-tap save-for-later a normal thing to do, years before every browser grew a reading list. Millions of people learned to keep what they found because Pocket made keeping easy.
It read well. The clean article view was the quiet standard everyone else measured against.
It ended more honestly than most services do: a public timeline, an export window, automatic refunds. The failure mode was built into the architecture, not the conduct.
If you exported before the window closed, find the file: a CSV or an HTML bookmarks file, sometimes split into parts. Share it into IKI or drop it into the library folder in the Files app. The import runs on your phone, with progress in the Dynamic Island. Links that still resolve are fetched, read and turned into cards, and from then on the text lives in your library rather than at the mercy of the source. If you never exported, IKI can't recover what Mozilla deleted; nobody can. Start the new library where that can't happen again.