What to use after Pocket, if the links you miss are the ones you kept going back to
4 min read · Switching & alternatives
Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025, and most replacements rebuilt only half of what people used it for: the reading queue. If your saves were reference material you reopened — client docs, pricing pages, forms, tutorials — a read-it-later app is the wrong shape, because queues are designed to empty. Linksley is a shared link board built for links you return to: boards with categories, a searchable new-tab page, and Pocket CSV import. It does not save article text, highlights, or offline copies.
Pocket is gone, and it took two different habits with it
Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025. Exports stayed open until October 8, 2025, and then the archive closed. If you were a heavy user, you did not lose one habit — you lost two, because the same save button had been doing two unrelated jobs.
The first job was reading. Long articles you meant to finish on the train, saved and mostly never opened. The second job was reuse: the client's brand kit, the pricing page you quote from, the tutorial you reopen every quarter, the government form nobody can remember the URL for. Those are not reading material. They are working links, and they came back to you constantly.
Most Pocket replacements only rebuilt the first job. If the saves you actually miss are the ones you opened five times, a reading app will feel wrong by day two.
Decide by what you do with the link after you save it
Ask one question before you file anything: after I save this, do I read it once, or do I open it again?
If the answer is read it once, you want a read-it-later app — offline article text, highlights, a queue you work down. Linksley does not do that. There is no reader view, no highlighting, no article archive. Saving an essay here saves the URL, not the prose.
If the answer is open it again, a queue is the wrong container. Queues are built to be emptied; working links are supposed to stay. A read-it-later app is a list you finish; Linksley is a shelf you keep going back to. Plenty of people need both, and running both is fine. What does not work is pushing forty reference links through a reading queue and then wondering why none of them are findable.
Import the CSV you already downloaded
If you pulled your export before October 8, 2025, that CSV is still a working file. Open Linksley, go to Import & export in the sidebar, choose the Pocket CSV option, and pick the file. It arrives as a board with categories rather than one endless list, so you can start deleting instead of scrolling.
Expect to throw away most of it. A Pocket archive is mostly articles you were never going to read; the useful residue is usually a few dozen links you recognize on sight. Keep those, sort them into categories — Clients, Finance, Tools, Reading — and let the rest go.
Nothing locks in afterwards. Linksley exports standard bookmarks HTML on every plan, including the free one, whenever you want it out. If the CSV is long gone, start from your browser instead: any browser's bookmarks HTML file imports the same way.
Make the kept links show up without being looked for
The real reason Pocket saves went stale was distance. Saving took a second; retrieving meant remembering that an app existed and going there.
Linksley closes that gap inside the browser. The extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera — there is no Safari extension) can make your boards the new-tab page. It renders from a local cache, so it appears instantly, and it is searchable, so three letters beat scanning. The new tab is the page you open most in a working day.
Saving stays quick: a keyboard shortcut, right-click on any page, or the extension popup. If you would rather use the browser's own bookmark star, turn on star capture and starred pages land on a private Unsorted board you triage later. There is no mobile app — the web app opens on a phone, but the board experience is desktop-first.
Reference links versus reading queues
| What you need | Linksley | Read-it-later apps |
| Purpose | Links you reopen | Articles you finish once |
| What actually gets saved | The link, titled and filed | The article text, for offline reading |
| Organization | Boards, categories, subcategories | A queue plus tags |
| Reader view and highlights | ||
| Sharing with other people | Boards shared with per-person permissions | Mostly a link out |
| Export | Bookmarks HTML, every plan | Varies by app |
Common questions
What happened to Pocket?
Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025. Exports of saved items stayed available until October 8, 2025, after which the service and its archive closed.
Can I import my Pocket export into Linksley?
Yes. Linksley imports the Pocket CSV export from Import & export in the sidebar, and the file arrives as a board with categories rather than a flat list.
Is Linksley a read-it-later app?
No. It saves links, not article text, so there is no reader view, offline copy, or highlighting. It is built for links you reopen, not articles you read once.
What if I never downloaded my Pocket CSV?
Start from your browser instead. Linksley imports any browser's bookmarks HTML file, and the free plan gives you one board forever with no card.
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