TunereadAfter Pocket
A Pocket alternative that reads your list to you.
Pocket is gone, and with it the Listen button that read your saves aloud. If your list grew faster than you could read it, Tuneread turns it into something you can get through: on a walk, on the train, or while doing the dishes.
Try Tuneread freeWhat happened to Pocket?
Mozilla shut it down. Pocket stopped working on July 8, 2025. Saves could be exported for a few more months, and then Mozilla deleted them, so a list can’t be brought back now unless you exported it.
Mozilla announced the shutdown in May 2025, to put its effort into Firefox.
Pocket could read to you. Tuneread is made for it.
Pocket’s Listen button read one article aloud. Tuneread does the whole job:
- Save from anywhere. Share an article from X, LinkedIn, Safari, a newsletter or a read-later app, or paste a link on Home.
- Up Next. Saved articles play one after another, like podcast episodes, with the screen off. The lock screen and your AirPods control them.
- Natural voices made on your iPhone. There are no speech servers, so anything in your library plays offline, even on a plane.
- Follow along. Every word lights up as it’s read, and each paragraph is read in its own language: 31 of them.
- No account. Your library and your place in every article stay on your iPhone.
It’s free for 30 minutes of listening a day. Pro removes the limit for $9.99, once.
What carries over, and what doesn’t
In Tuneread
- Saving from the Share menu in any app
- A library you can search
- Offline: everything in your library plays without a connection
- Your place in every article
Not in Tuneread
- Importing a Pocket export: you add articles by sharing them or pasting a link
- Tags and highlights
- An app for Android, the web or your browser
If you’d rather keep reading
These read-later apps are worth a look, and Tuneread works alongside any of them: when you’d rather hear an article, share it from your reading app to Tuneread.
Instapaper
The closest thing to Pocket: save articles and read them without the clutter, offline too. It can read aloud as well; a playlist of several articles is part of Premium, $59.99 a year.
Readwise Reader
For heavy readers: articles, newsletters, PDFs and feeds in one place, with highlights that flow into your notes. It reads aloud in lifelike voices. Part of a Readwise subscription, $9.99 a month billed yearly, after a 30-day trial.
Raindrop.io
More bookmark manager than reader: collections, tags and search for everything you save, on every platform.
GoodLinks
A tidy read-later app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with tags, highlights and notes, and no account. $9.99, once.
Prices in US dollars, from the App Store and readwise.io, October 2026.
Questions
Is Pocket still available?
No. Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025, and deleted the saved lists after the export window closed later that year.
What’s the best Pocket alternative?
For reading, Instapaper is the closest to Pocket and Readwise Reader the most powerful. If your list grew faster than you read it, or you used Pocket’s Listen button, Tuneread turns what you save into a queue you listen to, in natural voices made on your iPhone.
Is there a Pocket alternative that reads articles aloud?
Yes. Tuneread is made for it: free for 30 minutes of listening a day, $9.99 once for Pro. Instapaper and Readwise Reader can read aloud too, inside their reading apps.
Can Tuneread import my Pocket export?
No. Add the articles you want to hear by sharing them to Tuneread or pasting a link on Home.
Does Tuneread work on Android or the web?
No. Tuneread is an iPhone app, for iOS 26 or later, made for iPhone Duo too. To have your iPhone read a single page without an app, see text to speech on iPhone.
Listen to what you saved.
Natural voices, made on your iPhone. Free to start, $9.99 once for Pro.
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