Pocket vs Evernote Web Clipper: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Evernote Web Clipper — Pocket went dark on July 8, 2025, leaving Evernote's clipper the only one of the two still working. But it's a heavyweight note platform, not a read-it-later app, sustained use effectively costs $99+/year, and there's no Pocket import.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Evernote Web Clipper | Marqly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI auto-tagging | — | — | ✓ |
| Semantic search (find by meaning) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI summaries | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) | — | — | ✓ |
| Chat with your saves | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web highlighter | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Notes on highlights | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save page as PDF | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save all open tabs | — | — | ✓ |
| Public sharing (boards/collections) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pocket import | — | — | ✓ |
| Browser bookmarks import | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Offline reading | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| iOS app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android app | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — | — |
| Price | See site | Free · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr | Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month |
- See site
- Evernote Web Clipper
- Free · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr
- Marqly
- Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month
Pricing
- Pocket: Pocket has shut down and no longer accepts new users. Mozilla shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Saves could be exported until October 8, 2025, after which all user data was permanently deleted. Premium subscribers received prorated refunds.
- Evernote Web Clipper: Evernote Web Clipper has a free tier; paid plans are Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr. The clipper extension is free, but it saves into Evernote — and Evernote's free plan is capped at 50 notes, 1 notebook, and 1 device, so sustained use effectively requires a paid plan. Prices have risen repeatedly under owner Bending Spoons.
- Marqly: Marqly has a free tier; paid plans are $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month. 7-day free trial of Pro. Free tier needs no card; Pro unlocks chat with saves and video chat.
About Pocket
Pocket was one of the most popular read-it-later services on the web. Launched in 2007 as Read It Later and acquired by Mozilla in 2017, it let people save articles, videos, and links from any browser or app, then read them later in a clean, distraction-free view — online or offline — on iOS, Android, and the web. A free tier covered core saving and reading, while Pocket Premium added a permanent article archive, full-text search, and suggested tags. Pocket was built into Firefox and grew a large audience around its editorial Discover recommendations. In May 2025 Mozilla announced it was discontinuing the service: Pocket stopped working on July 8, 2025, exports remained available until October 8, 2025, and remaining data was then permanently deleted. Anyone who kept a Pocket export ZIP can still import those saves into most modern bookmark managers and read-it-later apps.
About Evernote Web Clipper
Evernote Web Clipper is the browser extension for Evernote, the long-running note app now owned by Bending Spoons. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera, it clips full pages, simplified articles, selections, or annotated screenshots into your notebooks, with tags and remarks added at save time. The backend is where it earns its keep: Evernote's search reads text inside images and, on paid plans, inside PDFs and documents, and the v11 release in January 2026 added an AI assistant that chats across your notes, semantic search, and AI meeting notes. Apps cover web, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, with offline notebooks on paid plans and a public API. The catch is pricing: the free plan is capped at 50 notes, one notebook, and a single device, while paid plans run from $14.99 per month (Starter, $99/year) to $24.99 per month (Advanced, $249.99/year) — among the most expensive in the category.
Which should you choose?
Pocket went dark on July 8, 2025, so Evernote’s clipper wins this matchup by simply existing — but the two were never the same species. Pocket saved articles to read later; Evernote Web Clipper captures pages into a full note platform, where they sit beside meeting notes and PDFs under genuinely deep search: OCR reads text inside images, paid plans search inside documents, and the v11 release added an AI assistant that chats across your notes plus semantic search.
Choose Pocket if
- The option expired in 2025 — service dead in July, data deleted after the October export cutoff.
- Not even its browser extensions remain installable.
Choose Evernote Web Clipper if
- You already live in Evernote: clipping full pages, simplified articles, selections, or annotated screenshots into notebooks — with tags and remarks at capture time — is the richest clip-time workflow of any major clipper.
- Your saves are research, not reading: contracts, receipts, reference pages, and screenshots that must be findable years later benefit from Evernote’s search depth.
- You clip from everywhere — it’s the only major clipper covering Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera.
The costs are the story. Evernote’s free plan is effectively a demo — 50 notes, one notebook, one device — so sustained clipping means Starter at $14.99/month ($99/year) or Advanced at $249.99/year, with prices repeatedly raised under owner Bending Spoons. And there’s no Pocket importer: the archive you rescued in 2025 should live somewhere with a dedicated import, like Raindrop.io or Instapaper. The practical read: former Pocket users who just want to save and revisit links will find Evernote heavy and expensive for the job; people who need a searchable filing cabinet for everything they encounter will find it earns its keep.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither Pocket nor Evernote Web Clipper fully solves it. Marqly auto-tags and summarizes every save with AI and lets you retrieve any of them by describing what you remember — plus a highlighter, YouTube summaries with transcripts, and save-as-PDF. There's a free tier with no card required.
Pocket vs Evernote Web Clipper FAQ
Can Evernote import my Pocket saves?
No — Evernote has no Pocket importer, so the export ZIP you rescued before October 2025 won't migrate in cleanly. If preserving that archive matters, choose a tool with a dedicated Pocket import such as Raindrop.io, Instapaper, or Wallabag, and treat Evernote Web Clipper as a forward-looking capture tool rather than a migration destination.
Is Evernote Web Clipper free to use?
The extension is free, but it clips into Evernote, whose free plan allows only 50 notes, one notebook, and one device — enough to test, not to live in. Sustained clipping realistically requires Starter at $14.99/month ($99/year) or Advanced at $24.99/month ($249.99/year), among the most expensive plans in the category.
What does Evernote offer that Pocket never did?
Depth of capture and search. The clipper grabs full pages, simplified articles, selections, or annotated screenshots across five browsers, with tags and a destination notebook set at clip time. Evernote's search reads text inside images via OCR, paid plans search inside PDFs, and the v11 release added an AI assistant, semantic search, and AI meeting notes.