Pocket vs mymind: Which is better? (2026)
Executive verdict & bottom line
mymind — Pocket ceased operating in July 2025, so mymind wins unopposed, but it's a poor fit for classic Pocket refugees: there is no import at all, so your Pocket archive can't come with you. It suits visual thinkers starting fresh, not readers migrating a backlog.
Feature comparison
| Feature | mymind | Marqly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI auto-tagging | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Semantic search (find by meaning) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI summaries | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) | — | — | ✓ |
| AI Q&A over 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 · The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/yr | Free · $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month |
- See site
- mymind
- Free · The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/yr
- Marqly
- Free · $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month
Pricing
- Pocket: Pocket has shut down and no longer accepts new users. Mozilla shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Export access and the API were disabled on November 12, 2025, and data deletion began then. Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket (verified 2026-10-06). Premium subscribers received prorated refunds.
- mymind: mymind has a free tier; paid plans are The Bookmarker $4.99/mo; Student of Life $7.99/mo or $79/yr; Mastermind $12.99/mo or $129/yr. Every account starts on a free "guest plan" capped at 100 cards — free forever, not a timed trial. AI tagging starts on Student of Life; AI summaries, reading mode, article backup, and the PDF analyzer require Mastermind. The Bookmarker tier has no AI features. Verified against mymind.com/pricing on Oct 5, 2026 (Student of Life yearly is $79, not $72).
- Marqly: Marqly has a free tier; paid plans are $72/year (≈$6/mo) or $9/month. Free tier needs no card and stores up to 100 bookmarks with search across your whole library; every library AI feature is Pro — auto-tagging, summaries, semantic search, AI Q&A over saves and video chat (YouTube summaries have a 3-per-month free allowance). Offline reading is Pro on web and iOS.
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, export access and the API were disabled on November 12, 2025, and data deletion began then. Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket (verified 2026-10-06). Anyone who kept a Pocket export ZIP can still import those saves into most modern bookmark managers and read-it-later apps.
About mymind
mymind is a private, visual saving tool that calls itself "the extension of your mind." Everything you save — bookmarks, images, quotes, notes, PDFs — lands as a card on one searchable visual canvas. There are no folders and no manual filing: AI tags each card automatically and recognizes objects, colors, brands, and text inside images, so you retrieve things by describing what you remember. The product is deliberately single-player: individual cards can be shared, but there are no public boards or shared-library collaboration, and the company is funded only by memberships. Apps cover the web, Mac, iOS, and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Every account starts on a free 100-card guest plan; Student of Life is $7.99/month or $79/year, and Mastermind is $12.99/month or $129/year, with AI summaries, reading mode, and a PDF analyzer reserved for the top Mastermind tier. A read/write API entered beta in mid-2026. Bulk import is deliberately unsupported.
Which should you choose?
On paper this is a walkover — Pocket ceased operating in July 2025 and mymind is alive and thriving — but it’s the rare case where the living tool is a poor fit for the dead tool’s refugees. mymind is a private visual canvas: everything you save becomes a card, AI tags it automatically (recognizing objects, colors, brands, and text inside images), and you retrieve things by describing what you remember. It’s gorgeous, private, and philosophically opposed to the one thing most Pocket survivors need: bringing an archive with them.
Choose Pocket if
- You’re out of luck either way — the apps went dark in July 2025 and the data followed that October.
- Nothing about it can be resurrected, subscribed to, or downloaded.
Choose mymind if
- You’re willing to start from zero. There is no bulk import from anywhere, by design.
- You save inspiration more than articles: images, screenshots, quotes, and ideas benefit most from the visual canvas and AI-powered recall.
- Privacy is a feature you’ll pay for — no ads, no tracking, no social layer, funded purely by memberships from $4.99 to $12.99/month, with a free 100-card guest plan to test the waters.
Know what you’re giving up from the Pocket playbook: there’s no offline reading, no highlights, nothing shareable, and the meaningful AI — tagging from $7.99/month, summaries and reading mode only on the $12.99/month Mastermind tier — sits behind the higher plans. Export is a one-way CSV plus files, workable only from desktop Chrome or Edge. The bottom line splits cleanly: if your Pocket export represents years of reading you want to keep, take it to Raindrop.io, Instapaper, or Wallabag. If the shutdown felt strangely liberating, mymind is the most beautiful blank slate in the category.
The managed alternative: Zero-setup cloud with AI retrieval
If you want the power of AI retrieval without configuring Docker containers, managing local models, or dealing with unsearchable link graveyards, Marqly delivers a complete managed solution. Marqly provides whole-library search, web highlights, and distraction-free reading on the Free tier, with Pro adding automated AI tagging, summaries, and semantic search by meaning.
Pocket vs mymind FAQ
Can I import my Pocket export into mymind?
No. mymind deliberately supports no mass import from anywhere — not Pocket, not Raindrop, not browser bookmarks — arguing that a fresh start beats migrating clutter. The read/write API that entered beta in mid-2026 makes a scripted import technically possible, but there is no official tool, so switching means starting over or writing code.
How is mymind different from what Pocket was?
Pocket was an article queue: save, read offline in a clean view, archive. mymind is a private visual canvas where every save — image, quote, note, link, PDF — becomes a card that AI tags automatically, with search that recognizes objects, colors, brands, and text inside images. There's no offline reading, no highlights, and nothing shareable.
Is mymind free like Pocket was?
Only up to a point. Every account starts on a free guest plan capped at 100 cards — permanent, not a trial. Paid plans run from The Bookmarker at $4.99/month (no AI) through Student of Life at $7.99/month or $72/year to Mastermind at $12.99/month or $129/year, which unlocks AI summaries, reading mode, and the PDF analyzer.
