Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.

Birdie

The UX is kinda clunky. I would give 4 stars but I just haven't noticed any major improvements over time. Things seem to break faster than they're fixed. I get certificate errors on many more articles now, and I can't close them. Archived articles are marked as unviewed every time I leave the list. Articles load improperly - I don't mind reporting them, but I would like a convenient button to open in browser. I really have to press the share button and then find my browser as a share option?

Trisha Atchley

Update after dev response: The "Save from Clipboard" option does not show up. No bar at the bottom of the app shows up when I've copied a link. Original review: Don't know when they removed the ability to save articles from copied links, let alone save anything at all, but that is ridiculous. Why would you remove such a basic feature? Doesn't look like I can use it within Chrome on my phone either. Guess I'm looking for a new app. Sorry. You dropped the ball.

A Google user

Decent app with lots of pluses and a few minuses. For a person with some vision issues this app allows me to listen to my news stories much faster than I can read them. The feature I especially like is the Google Chrome plug-in that allows you to save stories in the computer browser and it automatically syncs with the phone app. There’s also a web based version as well. Drawbacks include: no setting to atomically delete the stories once they have been listened to. Only about 80% of the stories I save can be read to me, and almost none of the stories I get from CNN can be read back. On the website you can’t have the stories read to you period! I’ve tried 10 or 12 apps and this one is the best so far. For now this is my go to reader, but I am looking for something better!

A Google user

Wonderful app for quickly keeping, categorizing, and accessing saved links across all of your devices. This is a perfect app for very busy people who need to quickly save links they randomly come across for later. Includes a text-to-speech reader that'll let you read through one or more articles with the push of a button. This is especially handy in the car. There is one recurring bug, however (which is why only 4 stars instead of 5): occasionally when you click "Add to Pocket", the links do NOT get added to your list, even though the app displays a confirmation message that the link was added. This seems to happen about 10% of the time and has become an annoyance. Sometimes, the adds will stop working and won't add several in a row (I lost 7 links this morning, that the app all confirmed to me were added). Other than that, this is a wonderful app, Web site, and Windows Store app.

Purejoy Sadguru

Fantastic way to save articles for reading later, across multiple devices, and it removes pretty much all of the distracting elements from said content. I have been using pocket for years, and it's great. That being said, there should absolutely be a preference allowing for the user to disable the "Save Copied URL?" dialog. This is needed from both a privacy and usability perspective. Otherwise, great work.

A Google user

Absolutely love video app. However, certain features not being able to work because of the premium version needing to be bought is an issue with me and then swear I deducted a star. I can't afford paying a monthly fee to use the premium features that are given within this app. However, aside from that, I give it a high rating due to its unique and sometimes the essential features.

A Google user

As an avid reader of articles, essays and longform journalism, I find Pocket to be the best. The design of Pocket is clean and simple, with just the right features (except for one missing feature I wish they had, the ability to bookmark your place in a long article that you can't finish in one sitting). Pocket's emails suggesting new reads based on what you've read are excellent, and I look forward to getting them. Thanks!

A Google user

This app has gotten awful recently. It seems more of a backend problem than client. Syncing is broken. I would save an article on my phone and don't see it at all on desktop. I would delete an article and still see it in my list. Tagging doesn't work. Archiving doesn't work well. I've had it up to here now and will be looking at alternatives like Raindrop and Instapaper. It's a real shame though because Pocket was one of my favorite apps of all time.

A Google user

I have been using this app for years, on multiple Android devices. I simply wanted to be able to save important web pages so I could view them offline later, as the app advertised. It worked sometimes, but was extremely inconsistent and could not be relied upon to actually re-display pages when I needed them most, that is, when I had no internet connection available. Other people might find a use for this app, but don't expect it to save articles reliably for offline viewing. I've found that these days the "download" icon in Android's Chrome browser works very well for this purpose.