Top 5 Best Pocket App Alternatives in 2019

by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp — all-in-one help authoring tool

Nowadays we are flooded with information. It’s just too much. There are so many articles, blog posts and other reading material appear that we wish we had more than 24 hours in a day to read everything.

Good thing people invented bookmarking apps, with Pocket being one of the oldest and biggest players on this market. But some find this tool lacking some features or just “not it”. As with every software, there are alternatives. Let’s have a look at ‘em.

1. Raindrop.io

Raindrop is a hidden gem of this collection. I’ve been searching for a Pocket alternative for quite a long time, until occasionally (!) stumbling upon Raindrop. It’s very simple, yet very effective bookmark manager for any media — links, articles, video, audio.

You can categorize your bookmark into “Collections”, and add tags to each bookmark. This way finding something is super-easy!

Price: Freemium. Basic features are free (which is enough, to my mind), but you can get extra things like nesting collections, broken links finder, duplicate finder, etc.

Cross-platform: It has a web-version and mac version along with iOS and Android apps, plus browser extension for all major browsers.

Offline: Raindrop doesn’t allow neither for saving, nor for viewing stuff offline.

2. Figgle

Figgle is not a simple read-it-later app. It analyzes your bookmarks and lets you discover content based on your preferences. Besides saving articles from URLs, you can upoad photos and notes. It also has social side — you can view other’s posts, and others can view yours, unless you hide them.

Price: Free

Cross-platform: iOS app only.

Offline: Figgle doesn’t work offline.

3. EmailThis.me

If you don’t like apps or prefer keeping the number of apps/websites you use, this might be for you. EmailThis, like the name suggests, won’t save stuff anywhere, but rather send you an email with a formatted contents.

Price: Freemium. For free you can save up to 20 bookmarks per month. For $19 a year you get unlimited bookmarks, pds snapshots and more.

Cross-platform: Definitely — it’s up to you what you use to view email.

Offline: Well, yes. The text is saved inside your inbox, so you can access it anytime (if your mailing app can store emails offline).

4. Instapaper

Instapaper is pretty famous, and also one of the simplest apps in the list. Plain and simple — save anything, read anywhere.

Price: Freemium. For $30 a year you get advanced features like full-text search, no ads and text-to-speech.

Cross-platform: has a web app and Android/iOS apps.

Offline: Everything is synced across all of the platforms, but you can’t view your bookmarks without internet.

5. Evernote

Well, how could I not mention everyone’s favorite note-taking app? I don’t really see a point in talking too much about Evernote. After all — it’s so popular, everyone seems to be using it.

But just a few words. Evernote is a note-taking app, not a bookmarking tool, so instead of folders, it has “notebooks”. You can use tags and advanced search to look for the thing you need.

Price: Free with paid plans. For free you will get all the core features, while paid plans will give you more space and advanced features like team administration.

Cross-platform: Has apps for everything, probably even your fridge.

Offline: Yep!

Everyone’s different and everyone needs its own set of features, even for storing and organizing bookmarks. Look through this list, choose what suits your best. And better yet — try these apps, don’t rely solely on the opinion of others.