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Stowed vs Pocket: the read-later replacement for 2026

Pocket was the default read-later app for a decade. Mozilla shut it down on November 12, 2025, with a 90-day export window. Stowed exists for the millions of users who need a permanent home.

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All Things AI

Stowed

Save articles. Read offline. Keep your data.

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Competitor

Pocket (retired)

Read-later app — shut down November 12, 2025.

Pricing: —

  • •Tag-based organization
  • •Read-aloud TTS
  • •Discontinued: data deleted after 90-day export window
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Key differences at a glance

What each one is good at.

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Stowed

All Things AI

  • Paste URL → on-device extraction

    Paste any URL. Stowed fetches the HTML and a hidden WKWebView extracts the clean article body with reader-mode heuristics. The full text is cached …

  • Article reader

    Full-screen reader with adjustable font, sepia/light/dark themes, and pinch-to-zoom typography.

  • TTS playback

    AVSpeechSynthesizer with Apple's neural voices. Adjustable speed, voice picker, background-friendly.

  • Pocket import (real)

    Pick your unzipped ril_export.html. Stowed parses every saved entry with title, URL, tags, and timestamp. Duplicates are skipped.

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Pocket (retired)

Competitor

  • Tag-based organization

  • Read-aloud TTS

  • Discontinued: data deleted after 90-day export window

Pricing: —

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