How to Export and Migrate Your Pocket Data in 2026 (Step-by-Step)

Mozilla shut down Pocket in 2025, and if you haven’t already pulled your data out, your years of saved articles are at risk. The good news: exporting is quick, and importing into a modern app takes a couple of minutes. This guide walks you through both — from getting your data out of Pocket to landing it somewhere it’s actually searchable again.

Step 1: Export your data from Pocket

If Pocket’s export is still accessible for your account, here’s the path:

1. Go to getpocket.com/export (the export endpoint Pocket provided to departing users).
2. Sign in if prompted.
3. Pocket generates an HTML file containing all your saved URLs, titles, and tags.
4. Save that file somewhere safe (e.g. pocket-export.html in your Downloads).

Do this now if you haven’t. Once a shutdown service fully decommissions its servers, export endpoints can disappear without warning. Your export file is your insurance.

The exported HTML is a standard bookmarks file — the same format browsers use — so it’s portable to almost any modern read-it-later or bookmark tool.

Step 2: Choose where to migrate

Your export is portable, so the real question is where it should live. The three most common destinations for Pocket refugees in 2026:

• Marqly — if you want your library to become searchable by meaning (AI search), with auto-tagging and summaries. Imports your Pocket file with tags intact.
• Raindrop.io — if you want a free, general-purpose bookmark manager.
• Instapaper — if you want minimalist, no-frills reading.

(For a full breakdown, see The 8 Best Pocket Alternatives in 2026.)

Step 3: Import your library

Most modern tools accept the Pocket HTML export directly. In Marqly, for example:

1. Create a free account.
2. During onboarding (or in Settings → Import), choose Import bookmarks.
3. Drag your pocket-export.html file into the importer.
4. Your saves appear — titles and tags preserved — and Marqly begins auto-tagging and indexing them for AI search in the background.

The whole import typically finishes in under two minutes for a few thousand items.

Step 4: Reconnect your saving habit

The export gets your history across. Now rebuild the habit:

• Install the browser extension so saving is one click, like Pocket’s button.
• Add the mobile app so you can save from your phone’s share sheet.
• Set up any integrations (some tools support Raycast, iOS Shortcuts, etc.).

Within a day, saving feels exactly like it did with Pocket — except now everything is searchable.

The upgrade most people miss

Migrating is a chance to fix the thing Pocket never solved: most of us save far more than we ever find again. Folders and keyword search don’t scale past a few hundred items.

When you move your library, consider landing it somewhere with semantic search — where you can type what you remember (“the piece about remote work and trust”) and get the article back even if you’ve forgotten its title. That’s the core of what Marqly does: import your Pocket history, then actually find any of it again. Free to try.

---

Tip: whichever tool you pick, keep your original pocket-export.html file backed up. It’s your portable, vendor-independent copy — the whole point of the Pocket lesson.