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Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

#11

Post by masylum » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 8:51 PM UTC

Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar.

Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products:

- A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform

The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

#12

Post by RistrettoMike » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 8:52 PM UTC

Throwing another answer in for Instapaper. It’s not as new and flashy as something like Readwise or Matter, but also doesn’t try to do too much.

Killer features of Instapaper for me include the kindle digest and IFTTT integration (which I use to mirror my archived articles to Raindrop.io)

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

#13

Post by butlike » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

masylum wrote: post #11

Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar . Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products: - A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

You should add a public leaderboard called the Fika score (a play on fico score)

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

#14

Post by segphault » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 9:02 PM UTC

I ended up on Readwise Reader after trying a few different options. It unapologetically caters to power users and is clearly built by people who actually use and care about the product, so I'm finding it to be a pretty solid improvement over Pocket.

They also have put some effort into making their mobile app work reasonably well on eInk displays, so it's pretty great on a Boox tablet. It has real pagination, which is a feature that I was pretty annoyed about losing in Pocket when Pocket rewrote its mobile app.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

#15

Post by mbirth » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 9:05 PM UTC

I’m an Apple user and switched to GoodLinks at first but later migrated to AnyBox because the latter one can create PDF and WebArchive snapshots of the webpages.