Pocket: Save. Read. Grow. Reviews

Why is it so hard to navigate?

Dannii Elle

Great app but find it tedious to delete (why do I need to confirm each delete) or switch to web view or add tags? Could not icons be available at one touch for these functions?

Share Ext works

Pauly mag

Have to REBOOT iPhone, log back in and Pocket is back and working great. A must have app!

A Great Tool For People With ADHD

MyRomanApartment

No pop up ads, no photos, no comments. Any article on the internet is converted to white text on black for easy reading & no additional visual noise. This app helps prevent rabbit hole-ing by creating a better place to store “things to read later.” By far my favorite, most used, productivity app. I use it daily.

Bad update

Tkk01

All my saved articles and videos are gone after the update. This really is a bad year.

Indispensable

mondegreen2

In addition to general read-later convenience, eliminates adds and substitutes scrolling for pagination. Bonus: many paywalls choose to include Pocket in their social media exception.

Excellent app to read long reads.

Priyaranjan Marathe

I recommend pocket to develop habit of reading long form articles.

Just one suggestion

Deankhu

I’ve been using pocket for years and I can definitely say it’s a must-have for anyone interested in keeping up with the news and learning new things! The articles made by pocket always catch my attention and the app is aesthetically. However, I do have one suggestion. I prefer to read at night but the dark mode isn’t that easy on the eyes. Would you guys be able to include a black mode option, which would take advantage of the OLED screen? Maybe even have a couple options for the color of the text (like a dulled grey instead of white)?

Things that make you go hmmmm...

-Vickster-

This is a slick looking app in a lot of ways, but some annoying and odd choices made by your user experience department keep me from using it to the fullest potential. Why can’t I read an article while it’s being read aloud by your built in voiceover? When I tap the headphones icon, an album art wannabe cover page thing pops up blocking my view of the article. If I try to move this obstruction so that I can see the article again, the voiceover goes away. Maybe I’m weird but I seem to retain things better when they’re presented both verbally and visually. It’s one of the reasons I don’t use Pocket unless I’m driving. I can’t be the first person to request this option. Is it that difficult to implement? Also, I second a recent reviewer who commented that there is a nice male voice that reads the title of the article, then it switches to a robotic female voice for the actual article. The reviewer questioned why can’t the male voice be used to read the whole article? I’ve been wondering this for a while. Why would the decision be made to purposely switch the voice after the title has been read? I’ve also wondered why is the female voice you utilize not as natural sounding? If you are going to force us to listen to her voice, at least upgrade it to where it’s more pleasing. Or better yet here’s another place where you could just give us the option to make our own choice on something. Apple has male and female Siri. Even Google text reading gives male/female options. I don’t expect you guys to “fix” these things. As long as this app has been around, if you wanted to improve the user experience in these ways, you would have done it by now. Just like I said, things that make you go hmmm.

Critical features not available since last update

Tor fan

Can't pages any more to pocket since it disappeared from the share panel.

Life-Changing

missRidiculous

A powerful organizational tool. I think both extremes of personality types would benefit—the type who needs organization done for them but also the type who can’t function without organization. As long as you take the time to create tags, keeping the articles organized is super fast. Then you don’t need your 10 different sources of articles in your life, only this one. As we are bombarded with new information not just daily but all day long, this is a complete necessity. You take each article you are interested in as you come across it, and simply hit your share button which will have your links to text, email, and social media, and will also now have your “pocket” icon. You share it to pocket, and if you have tags set up it’s even better to instantly organize. So then you won’t have to save that email anymore that told you to go to that link, you trash that, you don’t have to save a news article to your browser folders or to any news app, you won’t have to save any articles in folders on your social media apps. You can delete all that info in all those inboxes, and have all your articles in one place, in a format that removes all those annoying pop-ups! Then when you are at a better time of day (or at a later date), you can peacefully read all your articles in one place, grouped into topics you can pick to read as a group, whichever topic you feel like at the moment, all collected in one place.

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