Pocket vs Raindrop.io: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Raindrop.io wins by default — Pocket shut down on July 8, 2025 and no longer exists. If you kept your Pocket export file, Raindrop's unlimited free plan and built-in Pocket import make it the natural home for a large link library.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Raindrop.io | 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 · $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month) | Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month |
- See site
- Raindrop.io
- Free · $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month)
- 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.
- Raindrop.io: Raindrop.io has a free tier; paid plans are $28/year or $3/month (Pro; App Store pricing $27.99/year, $2.99/month). The free plan is unusually generous — unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices. Pro adds full-text search, AI suggestions, permanent page copies, reminders, annotations, and daily backups. Yearly billing is about 20% cheaper than monthly.
- 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 Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager that has been in continuous development since 2013 and is widely treated as the benchmark for organizing links at scale. Bookmarks live in nested collections with cover art, tags, and several view modes, and the free plan is unusually generous: unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices, plus import and export. Apps cover the web, Mac, iOS, and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. The Pro plan — about $28 a year — adds full-text search across saved pages, an AI assistant that suggests tags and collections, permanent archived copies of pages, annotations, reminders, a duplicate finder, and daily backups. Collections can be shared publicly or used collaboratively, and a documented API plus thousands of integrations make it easy to wire into other tools. Raindrop imports from Pocket, browser bookmark HTML files, and most competing services.
Which should you choose?
Pocket and Raindrop.io solved different problems even when both were alive. Pocket was a reading queue: save an article, open it later in a stripped-down view, archive it, move on. Raindrop.io is a filing cabinet — nested collections, cover art, tags, and multiple view modes built for keeping thousands of links organized indefinitely. Since July 8, 2025, only one of them solves anything at all: Mozilla shut Pocket down, closed exports on October 8, 2025, and permanently deleted whatever remained.
Choose Pocket if
- You can’t. The apps and extensions stopped working in July 2025, they have been removed from every store, and no workaround revives a deleted account.
- You’re here out of nostalgia — the comparison is now historical.
Choose Raindrop.io if
- You kept your Pocket export ZIP and want those saves organized rather than just queued; Raindrop’s Pocket importer reads the file directly, even on the free plan.
- You want unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices for $0, with a $28/year Pro upgrade for full-text search, permanent page copies, and daily backups.
- You save more than articles — Raindrop handles any kind of link, shares collections publicly, and runs natively on web, Mac, iOS, Android, and every major browser.
The migration caveat is about reading, not collecting. Raindrop has no true offline mode and its reader is deliberately basic, so if Pocket was primarily where you read long-form on the train, Instapaper or Matter will feel closer to home. If Pocket was where links went to be found again someday, Raindrop is the strongest free landing spot left — assuming you exported in time. If you didn’t, there is nothing to migrate; Mozilla’s deletion was final.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither Pocket nor Raindrop.io 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 Raindrop.io FAQ
Is Pocket still available in 2026?
No. Mozilla discontinued Pocket on July 8, 2025. The apps and extensions stopped working, exports were available only until October 8, 2025, and all remaining user data was then permanently deleted. Premium subscribers received prorated refunds. Anyone weighing Pocket against Raindrop.io today is really choosing between Raindrop and other living alternatives.
Can I import my Pocket saves into Raindrop.io?
Yes — provided you downloaded your export ZIP before the October 8, 2025 deadline. Raindrop.io has a dedicated Pocket importer that reads the CSV inside that export, and importing is available on the free plan. If you never exported, the saves are unrecoverable; Mozilla deleted all remaining data once the window closed.
Is Raindrop.io free like Pocket was?
Raindrop's free plan is arguably more generous than Pocket's ever was: unlimited bookmarks, collections, highlights, and devices, plus import and export. The $28/year Pro tier adds full-text search, AI tag suggestions, permanent page copies, annotations, and daily backups — roughly the extras Pocket Premium used to charge for before the shutdown.