Pocket is gone. Mozilla shut the service down on July 8, 2025 and finished deleting user data on November 12, 2025, after two extensions of the original export deadline.
So let us start with the part most migration guides skip. If you did not export in time, your library is not coming back. Not from Mozilla, not from a third-party tool, not from a cached copy. That is most people. Every guide that opens with “first, open your CSV” is written for the minority.
Nothing below needs the CSV.
- Five minutes, one tool. Install the Chrome extension. Saving a page is one click after that.
- It saves the page, not the link. Up to 10,000 characters of article text, so you can search what the page said rather than what it was titled.
- Your X, Reddit and LinkedIn saves come too, automatically, into the same library. Pocket never handled those properly.
- No CSV import. A Pocket export is a URL list, and importing one gives you links with nothing behind them. There is a 20-bookmark triage below instead.
- No reader view. If Pocket was your reading app rather than your saving app, be honest about that before you switch.
What you actually used Pocket for
TechCrunch’s coverage of the shutdown put the number plainly. Millions of saves. Very few reads.
That matches what people say in every Pocket thread since. The saving was the habit. The reading almost never happened. Which means the thing you are replacing is not a reading app, whatever the category was called. You are replacing the place things went, and the promise that you could get them back.
Pocket was bad at the second half. It stored a URL, a title, and a stripped-down copy of the article. Search matched titles well and article text poorly, and it understood nothing about a saved tweet beyond its URL. So the library grew and the retrieval never improved.
That gap is the whole reason ContextBolt exists, and it is worth being specific about what closes it.
What ContextBolt saves
Click the extension icon on any page and press Save this page. It keeps:
- The article text, up to 10,000 characters, which is most articles from start to finish. The navigation, adverts, comment sections and cookie banners are stripped out first.
- The title, the author and the site, pulled from the page’s own metadata rather than guessed.
- Only your selection, if you made one. Highlight a paragraph before you save and that paragraph is what gets stored. Handy when one line in a forty-page report is the only part you will ever want back.
Two details matter more than they sound.
It reads the tab you already have open. Nothing is fetched from a server, so a page behind a login, an article on a subscription you pay for, or a wiki on your company intranet saves like any other page. Server-side tools get the paywall.
Your copy is stored at save time. If the article is later rewritten, moved behind a paywall or deleted, the version you saved is still there and still searchable. A browser bookmark to a dead page is just a link to a 404.
The half Pocket never did
Open any old Pocket save of an X thread. You will find a one-line title and nothing else. The thread, the replies, the reason you saved it, all stripped at save time.
A big share of what people put in Pocket was exactly that: links from X, Reddit and LinkedIn, saved because the headline looked good. Pocket treated them as generic URLs because that is all it could do.
ContextBolt captures those natively. Open your X bookmarks page and it picks up the lot. Open Reddit and it does the same, including saves older than the 1,000 Reddit still shows you. On LinkedIn a save button appears on every post. No API key, no export file, no manual transfer.
They land in the same library as your saved articles, so one search covers both. That is the part no read-later app does, because none of them can see inside your social accounts.
Setting it up (five minutes)
- Open the ContextBolt page and click Add to Chrome.
- Pin the extension so the icon sits in your toolbar. That icon is the save button.
- Open X, or twitter.com. Your existing bookmarks are picked up automatically. You do not click anything.
- Open reddit.com and let your saved page load once. Same again.
- For LinkedIn, click save on a post and it is captured from then on, or use LinkedIn’s official data export to bulk-import your save history in one batch.
That is the whole setup. Every save gets a main topic and a few specific tags applied by AI, topics cluster in the sidebar on their own, and search covers the tags, the title, the author and the page text at once, running on your device.
The free tier covers 150 saves with tagging and search. Pro is $6 a month for unlimited saves, cloud sync, and a personal MCP endpoint. See pricing for the current numbers.
The 20-bookmark triage
There is no CSV import and there will not be one soon, so here is the honest workaround. It takes ten minutes and it is better than an import anyway.
If you still have your Pocket export, open it and sort by date. If you do not, open your browser bookmarks instead, which is where most people’s real backlog lives.
Then pick the twenty you would actually be annoyed to lose. Not two hundred. Twenty.
Open each one and hit save. Ten minutes later those twenty are in the library with their full text, tagged, and findable by describing them. The other three thousand were never going to be read, and importing them would have given you three thousand links with nothing behind them, which is exactly the pile you are trying to get out of.
This is also why a URL-list import is not on the roadmap. It would look like a feature and deliver a worse library.
What you lose
Three things, and they are real.
- No reader view. ContextBolt saves and finds pages. It does not present them for reading. Clicking a save opens the original.
- No highlighting or annotation on a saved page. You can save a selection, but you cannot mark up an article and come back to your notes.
- Chrome only, and no phone app. If you saved from your phone all day, this is the one that will bite.
If any of those three was the point of Pocket for you, say so now and pay for Instapaper or Readwise Reader instead. The full Pocket alternatives breakdown covers where each one fits, honestly, including the ones that beat us.
What you gain
Search that works on what the page said. Type “that pricing article with the three-tier chart” and the right save comes back even though none of those words are in its title. Chrome’s own bookmark search cannot do that, and neither could Pocket, because neither one ever stored the page text.
Your social saves in the same place as your articles, which nothing else offers.
And on Pro, an MCP endpoint. Paste it into Claude, Cursor or Codex once, and your AI can read the articles you saved rather than just their links. Ask what you have saved about a topic and the answer draws on your own library. That single capability is why most people upgrade a few weeks in.
Pocket trained a lot of people to save things and never see them again. Worth picking a replacement that closes that loop rather than one that just repaints it.