Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the useful bookmarking instrumentality utilized to prevention articles and webpages for later. The organization announced that Pocket volition halt moving connected July 8th, 2025, as Mozilla begins concentrating its “resources into projects that amended lucifer their browsing habits and online needs.”

Following the shutdown, you’ll lone beryllium capable to export saves until October 8th, 2025, which is erstwhile Mozilla volition permanently delete idiosyncratic data. Mozilla says it volition commencement automatically canceling subscriptions arsenic well, and volition contented prorated refunds to users subscribed to its yearly program connected July 8th.

It has besides taken down the Pocket web hold and app arsenic of May 22nd, 2025, but users who person already installed the app volition beryllium capable to re-download it until October 8th.

Pocket — primitively called Read It Later — launched successful 2007 and grew successful popularity arsenic radical utilized it to support way of the articles, recipes, videos, and much that they planned to revisit. In 2015, Mozilla added Pocket to Firefox arsenic the browser’s default read-it-later app, and past acquired it 2 years later. 

Mozilla says it’s shuttering Pocket due to the fact that “the mode radical prevention and devour contented connected the web has evolved.” Pocket’s email newsletter, called Pocket Hits, volition proceed nether a caller name, “Ten Tabs,” but it volition nary longer person a play edition.

In summation to shutting down Pocket, Mozilla is besides sunsetting its fake reviews detector, Fakespot. “We acquired Fakespot successful 2023 to assistance radical navigate unreliable merchandise reviews utilizing AI and privacy-first tech,” Mozilla says. “While the thought resonated, it didn’t acceptable a exemplary we could sustain.” Review Checker, the Fakespot-powered instrumentality built into Firefox, is shutting down connected June 10th, 2025, too.

“This displacement allows america to signifier the adjacent epoch of the net — with tools similar vertical tabs, astute hunt and much AI-powered features connected the way,” Mozilla says. “We’ll proceed to physique a browser that works harder for you: much personal, much almighty and inactive proudly independent.”