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Pocket: Stay Informed App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Version 8I turned on dark mode on my phone, but I was reading in light mode because it's better for long reads. bring back the possibility of choosing our mode directly in the application rather than automatically taking that of the device. People navigate their phone with their thumb. You should bring the buttons to delete or store an item to the bottom of the screen so that you don't have to reach up to the top of the screen to reach it. This is very impractical on large phones..Version: 8.0.0
✓ Removed highlight and #tag functionality?Perhaps I’m not seeing it in the redesign, but both these functions are very useful for keeping track of a large collection. Please bring them back!.Version: 8.0.0
✓ Latest release broke some thingsI’ve been a big Pocket user for years now and the latest release has made the app unusable for me. Because of a visual impairment, I listen to articles I've saved in Pocket. For those articles that the "Listen" function works, they now stop randomly in the middle of articles. I have not found a pattern yet. This second problem is my bigger issue. For those that do not work with the "Listen" function, I have used the two finger swipe down "Speak Screen" accessibility IOS feature and it would read the whole article. Now it stops at the first photo or ad. Certain media like the Washington Post or my local newspaper articles fall into this category, I assume because of how they are formatted. Because of all of this, I can no longer listen to articles in Pocket and hear the entire article. Please fix this!.Version: 8.0.3
✓ What Happened?I have to agree with other recent reviewers that the latest update is very bad. It should be rolled back ASAP. Along with many things already mentioned by other reviewers, the iPhone just does not work, freezing on the home page and maybe if I close and reopen enough times, I might sometimes get to an article, it’ll freeze there. iPad is not freezing, but has a whole load of other issues. When will this be fixed? Update 4 July 2023 I see there was an update a week ago. It does seem to have helped with anything. iPhone version still DOES NOT WORK! I’ve just had a reminder about my subscription. It will cancelled unless you can fix this very soon..Version: 8.0.4
✓ Latest update is terribleBeen a user and lover of this app for years. I’ve happily paid for the premium account for years , but this latest update is really bad. Tagging articles is now much harder. After the update only viewing option of saved articles is in a list. The default viewing page when you open the app is their home page, not your saved content. And to top it off, the app is buggy and freezes often having to be closed and restarted several times before it works for a few minutes before freezing again. Really hope there’s another update coming soon to address these issues. This isn’t a case of complaining just because it’s new/different. I don’t think I’ve ever left a review on an app, but these changes are bad enough and have enough of an adverse effect on my use of it that I felt compelled to say something..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Saved articles tags, favourites….missingLong time premium user, thousands of articles saved. Since upgrading to version 8 (currently 8.1.0) and several hangs/crashes while searching/scrolling/saving, only a small subset of tagged articles or favourites are now listed. I can still find these articles by text searches, but then what is the point of tagging? Tried deleting the app and restoring, no improvement..Version: 8.1.0
✓ DisappointingNot sure what’s happened behind the scenes but the new update crashes constantly when doing anything, has taken away features like multi selecting articles, changing the default view for certain types of links, keeping place in articles and on the saves list and I have no interest in anything on the new home page and am unable to to turn this off. I used to use Pocket almost every day and the new update has made it pretty incompatible with the way I used it, from the other reviews it seems I’m not alone, please allow us the option to downgrade to the previous version thanks..Version: 8.0.4
✓ Unanswered questions and unable to email developerBefore making this purchase I wanted to know if items were backed up somewhere in case something went wrong? I could not locate the answer. Do all saved articles have the ability to be read to you? I could not locate that I do anywhere yet you have a headphone icon. If only some can be read to you once saved which saved items can’t be read to you and why? I could not locate that I go either. Why don’t you have an email listed anywhere to email you? I could not locate your email for further questions even with an account! I can save all my articles to my desktop or file on my phone and save them there for free. Why do I need this service? Thanks. I had to ask my questions here….Version: 7.29.9
✓ Slow progress since the big rewriteBack in May on the Pocket blog they wrote “ Moving forward, Pocket on iOS will be updated every two weeks. In the next few months, we’ll be bringing back the ability to create and view highlights on your saved articles”. That isn’t happening: updates are more than 2 weeks apart and highlights are still missing. I’ve also noticed that the number of articles being saved as links instead of saved as full text is increasing which negates the point of a read-it-later app with offline support! I’m now investigating the competition to see if any of them would do a better job of managing and archiving my reading..Version: 8.1.0
✓ New update tagging is not goodA single tag is fine but multi tagging is slow with the keyboard closing between each tag. Was fine before not sure why it was changed.Version: 8.0.8
✓ Delete Doesn't WorkDelete isn't working in article menu. It's way too hard to delete articles; I resent having to dig into Hamburger menu to find the delete button, then get a confirmation dialog too! It should be easier to delete things; I save a lot of articles, and it would be nice to not have to swipe up and down and dismiss dialogs to do that..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Suddenly discontinued the save via email featureThe save via email feature that I use the most has been discontinued suddenly without any previous notification. Get your data out before they paywall everything or shut down completely. Recommend just emailing yourself the links. Eventually something like chatgpt will provide the same and better functionality..Version: 7.29.9
✓ Unfortunate updatePocket just went from indispensable to unusable. What a bummer. A classic example of dont fix it if it aint broke. Wish there was another way to give my feedback other than a bad review..Version: 8.0.3
✓ What happened!?I opened up Pocket after not using it for a few months and the app is horrible now. It’s stuck on the dark theme (which matches my phone) but I don’t want that theme for reading using Pocket, it used to be independently configurable and I used to use the Sepia setting but that’s no where to be found. From memory it feels like almost all the options have been removed? We also need a setting to open the app to my Saves screen by default, I’m not really interested in what’s being pushed on the Home screen. Really disappointing to see such a great app jump off a cliff, I hope you can make it great again..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Only seems to work with Mozilla productsDoes not work with brave on iPad. Officially uselessly app. Delete deleted..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Used to be good; getting worseThe app stopped loading my new saves. i had to delete and reinstall to get it to work again. furthermore it is getting worse at recognizing and saving articles in article view. and don’t bother with tech support—it’s bad..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Please fix TTSThis used to be among my favorite apps, but lately I’m using it less and less and using safari more and more because of the poor integration of text to speech in the latest version. This is an easy fix for the team, but here are the problems: 1) the integrated voice will not read all the articles which pocket will download. 2) Sometimes the voice is not available in these cases I have to use iOS TTS ‘two finger swipe’ from the top, but the layout of Pocket’s buttons on the top means that two out of three times, it takes me back to the menu, rather than reads the article! 3) while I like the feature of being able to continuously read multiple articles, I miss the ability to follow along the text as it’s being read. 4) it would also be a nice feature if it would indicate, if if it has been fully read or what percentage has been read in the past. It would be nice also to turn off the screen and treat it like a music play list while exercising. The bottom line is that without the ability to easily have Pocket read aloud, the app is much less useful. The spotty availability of the integrated reader and poor placement of buttons on the top complicate the use of the iOS text-to-speech is particularly frustrating, especially if trying to listen to something while walking or driving..Version: 8.3.0
✓ BrokenDevastated. Used Pocket for years. The update (8.08) is broken for my iPhone XS. I can’t log in. Support stopped helping. I guess I have to try Instapaper. I wish I could download the links for everything I had in there..Version: 8.0.8
✓ Version 8 is buggySince upgrading to 8, the vast majority of my tags do not work on the app. Clicking on them returns 0 articles but it still works correctly on the website. Please fix..Version: 8.0.1
✓ Time to unsubscribe?Forcing all your mac users on this surrogate app makes switching to another service much more appealing. What's your plan Mozilla? We pay for the pleasure of reading, if we still need to use a web brower than what's the point? Overall disappointed. Pocket was great, it did one things and well. Now that is Mozilla, I can't even tell what it is anymore. A social network? A sharing platform? WHAT?.Version: 8.0.5
✓ Premium functions not available on iOS anymoreI used to use it regularly and have been a premium user for years, but it might be time to switch to another app since they have removed the option to highlight on iOS. I don’t mind the updated UI otherwise, but the lack of highlighting feature is a dealbreaker for me. Disappointed.Version: 8.1.0
✓ Randomly deleted all of my old saved docs and then given bad advice by helplineThe app worked fine for a while but recently deleted the majority of the files I had saved without informing me. When I contacted the helpline they recommended I delete and reinstall the app - since then I can no longer access it at all without downloading a random internet browser and creating an account with that. Used to be very helpful as an app but went dramatically downhill this year and now pointless..Version: 8.1.0
✓ I used to love this app until nowIt’s no longer compatible with my iPad. Very disappointing that you can’t roll out updates to more OS..Version: 8.1.0
✓ V8 update removed the formatted viewWhere is the formatted view? Now all I see is for some site is a bunch of text with no paragraph separation. This really reduces readability..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Please bring back access to older versions!The update is terrible. The pocket app has just gotten so far removed from the simple offline reader that i have used for so many years. The last update was annoying. I now have to clock through options to actually find my reading list. Which is strange for an app that is essentially a reading list. And now my favourite app is no longer usable on my ipad. My iPad that i use primarily as a reader. Books, Kindle, Hoopla and every other reading app still works beautifully. I’m sad to get rid of my fav, but it looks as if I’ll need to move my years of saved articles from pocket on to a new app..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Just badI wanted to support Firefox and I tried to love this app but it is just bad. 1. The design is cumbersome and intrusive. I want a reading app to have a calming minimal distraction-free interface, this is the opposite, busy, clunky and annoying. Login is a mess. Tag management is awful. Worst of all the recommendations are constantly in your face and can’t be disabled. 2. Buggy. The interface often lags and glitches. Automatically generated article titles are often meaningless and can’t be edited. Even the core functionality goes wrong, I’ve had completely the wrong article come up when reading a save. 3. Lacks features. No way to add notes. No way to edit titles. No in-page text search when reading. It’s sad, Pocket used to be the best. Firefox needs to get their act together. Instapaper is better in every way, I recommend checking it out instead..Version: 8.0.8
✓ Great idea but multiple glitchesI absolutely love the app and solution for being able to listen to blogs that are worth listening but don’t have to read. Glitches: -the status on how far you’re in on listening to the post isn’t working (it’s always frozen on the beginning) or partially works if you press stop/resume inside the app. -the listening stage doesn’t get updated on the lock screen of the phone so you can t quickly glimpse how much you have left tot go. -if you hide the in-pp listening mode playvirw it won’t continue listening in the background and what’s even worse is when you go back to the listening view it won’t remember where you were but instead starts from the beginning. -the listening speed adjustment button doesn’t work seamlessly- sometimes you have to stop and adjust and then resume but it doesn’t adjust on the fly while you’re listening. -LinkedIn blog posts are not a supported format for listening. -some rare posts get clipped prematurely / the reader doesn’t accurately read what’s the end of the post. -there should be an option to automatically mark the posts as listened / move to archive as you move to the next. I hope these glitches get fixed as have been looking for such a solution and already a power user..Version: 7.7
✓ Updates brings poor homepage designUpdate: offline content almost never works anymore. These my be caused by website creators but it greatly lowers the value of Pocket for me. I have been a Pocket user for many years and overall greatly appreciate the product. I just want to give a warning sign to the developers that the latest version has a much less user-friendly way of viewing the continent I have marked to read and has a less friendly way of seeing their recommended articles. They seem to be moving away from the clean list based view that allowed me to easily interact with my Content and go towards what it first glance may be prettier with large blocks of pictures and text, but is actually more difficult to work with. Lastly, it feels that the recommended articles has lost their ability to target my interests. Not sure how that’s connected to the interface..Version: 8.4.0
✓ Very disappointing redesignI’ve been using this app extensively for over 5 years now and it has never disappointed me as much as this new update has. The list redesign looks clunky and too big, the opposite how compact and easy to use it was before, and it’s almost harder to use now. I understand wanting to put more emphasis on the audio aspect of the app but moving the options and tags list (something that should be more important than an audio option) to the bottom not intuitive as claimed, but more confusing. And when viewing articles, I much preferred the previous view where saving and archiving webpages was much easier and certainly more intuitive with the older and more classic icons. Searching worked better before where it automatically searched through the saved pages as you typed rather having to type out the entire thing and searching to get results. On top of that, this update comes with many bugs: mass-editing pages while looking at search results simply doesn’t happen and in the normal view, mass adding multiple tags just don’t work sometimes, forcing me to tag pages individually. And if I add tags to a page while I’m reading it, they don’t show up when I return to the list until I refresh. Having used iPhones for 8 years now, no update to any app has me so desperate to return to older versions as this new Pocket update has; these new updates have me actually researching ways to undo them and return my app to an older version. Excluding the bugs that I have mentioned that need to be fixed, an option to return to the old theme at least would be much appreciated..Version: 7.0.4
✓ Formerly great appI’ve been a subscriber and Pocket advocate for years. It’s lost the plot since version 8 a few months back. I can no longer highlight passages from articles, which was some of my favourite functionality. The app started crashing on every launch this week and it was only resolved by deleting the app entirely and reinstalling it. After deleting the app, iOS prompted me to cancel my subscription — I didn’t, but I think I will if the problems aren’t addressed soon enough..Version: 8.0.6
✓ New update less user friendlyGreat app and i’ve used it for years but the new update is considerably less user friendly - the tagging system has been great but now there’s no way to adjust the view settings to see all of the tags listed against each saved item. highly frustrating to have to go into ‘edit tags’ when i just want to see my items with all tags listed. reading articles on the app also looks worse now with the new fonts and formatting, italics are showing as tiny font instead of displaying correctly. disappointing update all around..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Amazing app with fatal bugI LOVE this app. But after downloading it I get this recurring error message on my iPhone that says “Unable to download file.” This error repeatedly popped up a couple times each day for over two years. It doesn’t matter whether I click “Cancel” or “Try Again”. This error is one of the reasons I WIPED my phone entirely and didn’t transfer the apps and settings - because that just brought the error back. Instead I’m setting up manually and the error was fixed until I loaded Pocket again. I don’t think this is the app itself, I think I saved something to pocket that wasn’t the article but a download link. But it took me years to figure that out. I think the developer should help pocket detect when an item isn’t saving as it should, and either cancel it or give the user more info to help find the problem. Thanks.Version: 7.29.8
✓ Ruined one of the best iOS apps - nothing works anymoreI’ve been a user since forever and it was my go to app for saving and reading. But this new version is just a hot mess. Lost all functionality, can’t highlight anymore. I can’t set the screen colour (do not tell me it matches the system setting, I don’t care, I want to set it to what I want). The badge count doesn’t work. The tags I’ve spent years curating aren’t tagged against archived articles any more. *Nothing* works properly. If all this functionality is being reintroduced behind a paywall then that’s a poor move and it’ll be goodbye from me. I’m sure I won’t be alone. Way to go Pocket, you’re alienating a loyal user base..Version: 8.0.0
✓ Highlight missingBe warned that the Highlight feature, something that people will be paying for premium to use, is not on iOS or iPadOS versions of this app. This isn’t clear anywhere unless you dig into a help article. This makes premium basically worthless for me, and I will be canceling my subscription..Version: 8.2.0
✓ Missing ShortcutPlease re-add Share with Pocket shortcut..Version: 8.0.3
✓ We Saw This Coming With SubsI was a Early user of this application and created reviews on the App Store for this application early on. Mysteriously has it all disappeared. There's no way I would ever pay $45 a year for a subscription to this type of service. I have no idea how to justify that. from the looks of it and as I suspected from the moment subscriptions became SOP app development has gone decidedly downhill in about 98 to 99% of all application developers. It's just easy money it does not inspire any real developments or even good quality ongoing maintenance. I don't begrudge anybody making a reasonable living doing what they're interested in and good at, but, shear demonstration in the real world, tells me that subscriptions are not benefiting and users, who pay the bills, whether by subscription or by one time fees. Please do away with subscriptions once, and for all. oh, and, I will be deleting this app once and for all which I have kept on my mobile devices for several years hoping out of hopes things might get better… Clearly isn't going to happen. See you later pocket..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Disappointing and frustrating updateI've been a heavy Pocket user for years. This newest update has ruined my saved entries and ruined Pocket for me. The vast majority (99%) of my saved entries have lost their tags. Before the update, every single save had an associated tag, because throughout the years I made sure this was the case. To make matters worse, when I try to add a tag it appears and then disappears. No tag is actually recorded. This is for both my archive and list. The Pocket team should be deeply ashamed for this awful release. What a joke..Version: 8.0.0
✓ Version 8 ruined the productPremium account user for years. Thousands of articles. Mainly to listen to articles - text to speech. Latest release doesnt allow me to choose article and then listen. I must choose listen mode and then scroll available articles which is useless if you have been using app for years and have thousands of articles. Terrible change. Change it back to allow me to select listen after i have selected an article. Unbelievably it seems most of my tags are gone. Brutal. Also Searching seems to not work properly any longer. Things i know i saved recently dont turn up even when i use a keyword that would be relatively unique to the target article. Without these features working i will likely have to see an alternate product. Hopefully the migrate data feature works!.Version: 8.0.5
✓ Not useful at allI don't know about prev versions as I've just tried this out, but Pocket seems pretty poor. I had hoped to be able save articles to my portables so I could read them off-line. I thought it looked easy enough to set up a reading list and downloads few news sites I read every day. (To avoid the high mobile bandwidth rates here in NZ) But after wrestling with my account not being recognized after I signed up, to articles in my reading list created from Safari not appearing on my portables, to a strange lack of synchronization between devices (Articles archived on one device still appear on all the others, and I've still not figured out how to de-archive) I see that putting a site in my reading list doesn't actually save the site (even one link down) so I need to be on-line to read the content that was supposedly downloaded. If I need to be on-line to view my content, why bother with pocket? I can just use Safari and download as I read. (Without all the hassles) I guess you get what you pay for, and at free… I ended up with a useless app. DELETE APP, look for another alternative..Version: 4.0.0
✓ Fix the email address problem; new issuesI use Pocket regularly, but can’t believe they’ve still been unable to fix something that’s been now broken for years. Before, if you wanted to share an article w a small grp of folks, let’s call them regulars, you’d just highlight a box/circle, click send and they’d get it. This functionality was removed more than 3 years ago. Why? I don’t know. When I contacted you guys you said you were working on it. From the evidence, you weren’t and you aren’t. Pocket is by your omission, much less useful and I share far fewer links than I did. I don’t like retyping addresses of regulars, so I rarely do. If this is your intention, you’ve succeeded. It’s still pretty good for saving most articles/links of interest, but clearly some sites seem to be designed/built to not be viewed enjoyed by Pocket users later. That’s their and our loss. Beginning recently (Oct 2019) Pocket’s gotten significantly worse. Now I can even the above, irritating technique. Now I have to open an email app to share. Great, yet another extra step. How is it your new, “improved” (sarcasm mine) versions get worse. I’ll continue to use Pocket, but I won’t recommend it. Since 2021 it’s become still less user friendly. I still use it, but, oh well..Version: 7.29
✓ Hate UpdateSorry developers but what used to be a fantastic app for importing and storing my favourite recipes is now awful. I used Pocket for many years, raving about what a great storage app it was for recipes, to friends and colleagues. No more - no longer an efficient or easy to navigate app because of the changes to the interface. Very disappointing..Version: 8.0.4
✓ Impossible to read article in the Washington PostI am a paid subscriber to the Washington post. However, I like to read all my articles in a consistent form. I switched from Pocket to Instapaper several months ago because pocket I had trouble formatting articles from the Washington Post. I’m trying to give it another try new device. The problem is even worse. When I try to open a Washington Post article in pocket, I am presented with a sign in screen Washington Post, but no matter how I try to sign in and either fails or takes me back to my browser. Dealbreaker. Thank you for responding to my comments. However, you misinterpreted what my problem is currently it is that when I try to add a Washington post article, I get prompted to login to The Washington Post, but it will not return to the article in Pocket after I enter my login credentials. It takes me back to the web browser..Version: 8.0.0
✓ Latest update June 2023 - has broken audioNo longer able to adjust audio - offline voice options have been removed with the latest update. Instead of improving the voice offering you have diminished it. >> Audio is one of the main differentiators between Pocket & other apps. Please fix this. Oh & stop telling customers who are FURIOUS that “your IOS team is excited about the changes”. Well we’re not excited- we’re exasperated & it seems logical that the customer might be more important than the development teams’ ego. You need to fix: broken tags, broken audio, broken offline UI/UX etc etc. Basically get a manager to sit down & read the recent reviews for a Kanban boards-worth of fixes required because of the ‘update’. I have already moved to Instapaper from today: simply can’t use pocket properly anymore & I don’t have time to wait for a proper revision by the iOS team.., but I will keep checking for updates & hopefully return once you fix this horror show of an archaic update..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Unusable for now. App crashes on saving link from FirefoxSent crash report to the support email with bug description. Will update review once fixed..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Awful 2023 updatePocket used to be a simple, elegant way to read and save online articles, but the 2023 update has wrecked it. The text layout id ugly, the user interface is clunky, there’s no option to listen to the article from the article’s page, the Home button takes you to someone else’s idea of what you might want to read rather than the articles you’ve saved. I’ve given it two stars, because it’s still usable, but it’s so bad compared to what it was. Such a shame..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Pocket A Broken App Since Oct 2018This once was a serious app that allowed for much flexibility in how it was used. If you were taking a long hike, you could load hours of reading material for both eyes-on reading (when you were taking a break) as well as audible read-to-you content (for paying attention to the trail). This functionality was stripped many months ago. Now, if you’re not on the grid, forget such access. You must be connected to the Internet simply to read your saved articles. In audible mode, the text used to scroll with a highlight of what was being read. This is much how Kindle for iOS works when you have Audible content installed. It’s not particularly necessary for light reading. But for non-fiction, where there are names, and terms, and complex explanations, you may well want to stop the read-to-you mode and examine the text more carefully. This is now totally broken in Pocket. If you stop the audio you will be dumped at the beginning of the article. You’re now expected to scroll around attempting to figure out where you stopped the audio. Pocket doesn’t even provide a simple text search. This is so high friction that attempting this once or twice will dissuade you from ever trying to find the part of the article you want to read closely. It’s a fair app for consuming simple, short and unsophisticated material. But if you aim higher, Pocket will fail you..Version: 7.1.0
✓ A good app ruined by a bad updateThis used to be one of my favorite apps and I am a long-time premium subscriber (but not for much longer). The recent update ruined this app. What used to be a fast, easy process is now slow and glitchy on the mobile app. It now takes me twice as long to create a new entry. The tag search function is dumber than before and doesn’t show the more sophisticated results it used to. Good features were lost and unnecessary new ones added. Even the design is bad and looks like something from the first year of the App Store. It is all frustrating because the app WAS great. I rarely write app reviews because who cares, there is always another app, right? But this was an app I really liked and came to rely on. I have been a subscriber for years and now I may delete it. This was a mistake and you should at least offer the previous version to users who think you have lost your way. Also, what is up with the developer responses here, Pocket? Are you even reading these posts? Your responses reference issues not listed in the reviews and don’t address the points that are mentioned. Have you left customer service to a dumb AI? And your attitude toward your loyal, paying customers is despicable. I am looking for an alternative and will not be continuing as a subscriber if you don’t quickly wake up and deal with the issues you created. What a stupid waste..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Missing features in new updateLow information density in new update with no options for better density. Can’t view tags in archive anymore..Version: 7.0.4
✓ AnnoyingThe functionality of this app is ok but nothing special (plenty of equally good or better apps doing the same thing). What is annoying Is Mozilla’s insane security updates, which lock users out of their accounts and don’t actually work (ie don’t allow users to update their accounts because of security loops that go on and on). Mozilla needs to look at its security system because in the name of “better” security they are locking people out, frustrating users and ruining their own products. Trouble is, they are so smug about their devotion to “security” that they will never see how far down an unworkable path they have gone. They just seem to think they know best and the users can go hang. This attitude will be the death of them..Version: 8.2.0
✓ Used to be greatThis used to be the best app for reading articles offline. It was one of my favorites, I used it every day. I used to download articles to read on the subway where there’s little to no signal service. Unfortunately, with the recent updates, every single article wants to be online to read articles now. Article view, where you could download articles for reading when you have no internet connection, seems to have completely disappeared - which makes the app almost useless for reading articles where there is no cell service or wifi. In addition to getting rid of article view, they got rid of the option of reading white letters on black background - which I really enjoyed, since I have some vision issues. I just deleted this app since the last update got rid of all the features I used most. I’m sorry to say good-bye, I used this app for years! Such a shame - if it’s working well, why break it?.Version: 8.1.0
✓ Generic ‘recommendations’ no thanksI used to like Pocket but I won’t be using it anymore as I can’t stand the Home tab. It’s just full of generic rubbish articles that I can’t remove. Support says if I ‘report’ articles I don’t want then they’ll be removed, well a. I don’t want to have to manually report every single article that’s totally irrelevant to me, and b. Even when I do report them they’re still there! Can’t stand this push that every app has to force content on you that you don’t want. I just want to use Pocket as intended, I do not need a constant stream of rubbish on my Home page..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Can’t say I love the new updatesThe scroll bar does not work since the update. Also, missed the variety of language support in the old version even if it sounded less natural..Version: 7.0.17
✓ Buggy and getting worseIn the last couple of months it crashes frequently and fails to sync. Since I wrote this it has gotten worse. Tried the premium version for a month to see if there was a difference. There was not. The experience on the app and online is getting really bad..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Tags functionality must be improved by far & "Save to Pocket" has disappearedI'm a frequent user but I have always despised the tags feature. It is absolutely not convenient to use in terms of searching up articles simply by typing the tag word in the search bar. The search bar is only useful for searching words in the title of the article. I do not like having to manually rake through the countless tabs to find the one I'm looking for so I can find the corresponding articles. It makes zero sense to me why Pocket has not improved this over the past several years. Who wants a search bar that cannot filter articles according by tag words? That defeats the point of tags. That alone takes away two stars. It's been over a week since the "Save to Pocket" sharing function stopped working and I've resorted to saving them to my Bear or Evernote apps. Looking forward to this being resolved ASAP. Otherwise, great app. Just. Fix. The. Tabs. Search. Function. And fix the bug preventing users from saving to Pocket..Version: 7.29
✓ Great app, but some problemsIt is so hard to find your friends on this app, there should be a search feature for this. Also you should be able to personalise your discover section more, if you want it to be more than just followers then at least let people pick categories that they are interested in.Version: 7.6.0
✓ NotificationJust got back to using this amazing app again. Unfortunately the new notification when you save an article is just ridiculous. Please change it to the old one that took up a small part of the screen rather than the whole thing. It’s not too late to redeem yourselves!!.Version: 7.17.2
✓ New app version (8) destroys the appI’ve been using pocket since as long as I can remember. It was great so far. The recent app version, stripped Pocket of basic viewing settings. You can no longer have white text on dark background, which hinders story readability. They removed a ton of fonts that existed there for a long time. It’s a shame that a long-existing product like that is starting stripping features and limiting user experience..Version: 8.0.4
✓ Newer version is SO disappointingNewer redesign is SO disappointing. The whole summer has passed and the app is still not updated to its old functionality… Note for developers: - CAN’T display YouTube videos in external PIP window and horizontally like before - YouTube videos are full of ads and only play in portrait orientation - CAN’T select video links ONLY like before - CAN’T see any articles saved to Pocket from Bing app and its news feed - Would be nice if users can allocate maximum memory upload for mobile devices and store the rest of data on the cloud or primary device. - Search function needs improvements since it still struggles with more than one word queries. - It would be great if there were more search tools as in: search by date, images, omission of certain keywords… Please bring back the old functionality..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Needs to improveI’m a premium user of pocket and use it every day, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you only want to bookmark things you want to read on the internet. I feel it doesn’t evolve, it’s just that there’s no many alternatives out there. In my opinion, not being able to add notes to articles or highlights is a significant missed feature. Not being able to import articles from email is also lacking..Version: 7.29.8
✓ Utterly ruinedI’ve been a premium subscriber for years, always in the top percentage of readers at the end of the year. Pocket used to be amazing. Pocket devs - pay attention to the mountain of negative reviews, the app is ruined. Article rendering is awful now. Only 2 typefaces where there weee loads. Bizarrely, increasing the font size changes the serif font to sans-serif! No article width choices any more or justification options. It doesn’t load more than a couple of months of articles. My starred article list is empty. Page-flipping view is gone (I use pocket because I DON’T want to be scrolling, it’s supposed to be distraction-free). No highlights any more. So what are we premium users paying for exactly, now you’ve removed all the premium features? You built this app up over years, why destroy it? Add more features, don’t remove everything your users rely on. I am baffled beyond comprehension at this ‘update’ and what purpose it is supposed to serve, but I know I am currently wasting my money on your premium option. The only way I can reasonably use Pocket now is via a different reader app. So I suppose you’ll be removing API access next..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Bug: new items added to “saves list” are not available to listenI can’t initiate a listen (text to speech) on an article page anymore and when I chose to listen to my saves page it doesn’t play articles I’ve added recently Otherwise i love this app - as someone that prefers to listen to articles rather than read them (albeit in a janky computer voice!) it’s a must have for me!.Version: 8.0.3
✓ Love Pocket but jeez, such a bad update!I pay for Pocket and badly want to keep it as my go-to iOS reading app, but this latest version is so buggy and *such* a hassle — my place in an article isn’t preserved across devices now, highlighting is gone now (just for now, but…what? why!?), and article display settings are now limited to font and font size and that doesn’t even work. Why rush this release out before it was ready? I’ve never had such a bad experience with an app update, and I really don’t get it..Version: 8.0.3
✓ UnimpressedYour recent changes to the UI aren’t really improvements..Version: 8.0.1
✓ Bring Back Offline Read!!Definitely by far one of my favourite apps. One of the best features it has on there is the off-line reading mode and it's super useful considering I have dyslelxia and ADD. However the new update has stripped away the off-line reading mode which then means it’s far more intimidating and overwhelming to have to read the articles and for my mental health sake where there's no signal and I haven’t used the app as much as I’d like to use it. Please bring this back! Also.. OLED compatibility for iPhone X and other OLED displays. This would make the app a lot more better and potentially save more battery power when using a jet-black background..Version: 7.0.3
✓ DisappointedSince four years I have complemented just about all my readings both work and leisure through using this incredible app. Although, I must say nowadays my overall usage of the app has taken a serious downturn like never seen before... I figured out go check similar apps and observe how they compare to Pocket in terms of interface and ease of use. I finally concluded this journey with my full unapologetic abandonment of the reviewed app and opted to use Feedly and Inoreader (RSS readers). If you wish, both of these app are free to download on the Apple store. My chief complaint directly has to with rigidity of interface, I think a more flexible interface should do the app wonders. I suggest adding a categorize feature to store arrays of articles based on a shared category without compensating the ease of use like the case is with the tag feature..Version: 6.6.27
✓ Terrible UpdateWhile the refresh makes the app look more contemporary, the app breaks tagging (they disappear right after adding). And you can’t batch edit or tag anymore. The menus are oddly ordered (Delete right above Add Tags?). And also odd… why such a emphasis on archiving? Seriously not a fan of the 8.0 update. So much so, I am considering alternatives..Version: 8.0.0
✓ Great app, latest update disappointsThis app makes life so convenient, being able to save almost anything on my phone for later. However, the latest update has altered the layout and design and instead of having a neat list with thumbnails - there’s now this bulky spaced out list view that makes it hard to scroll through when trying to find something specific, especially on an iPhone SE. Would be an easy 5 stars with the option to change the view layout!.Version: 7.0.1
✓ Fraud like all the rest of these video saving appsIt tells you it will save video so you may watch them offline, it's a lie, the moment you have no conection you cannot see any of the saved videos... its just a cheap search engine like the rest of them..Version: 7.14.2
✓ Update means App no longer worksAfter the recent update that fixed the immediate crash issue, the app was empty of all articles. Logging out and losing any downloaded articles and logging back in briefly shows the saved articles before they are gone again and the app is empty. This has been going on for days but I see no information acknowledging the issue or a fix. If a fix isn’t forthcoming immediately then why not roll back to a previous working version while you iron out the bugs?.Version: 8.0.7
✓ UselessI downloaded the app because I wanted a place to source and resource web links. I had started using the built in links in Firefox so I thought I’d dig deeper. The app is utterly useless, I don’t know if I never noticed it before, but now Firefox on mobile doesn’t have a native way to save to the app - I have to copy the link, open the app and then it saves a rudiments url... doesn’t prompt to add tags or anything. I would have saved myself time and battery power just saving the bookmark Then when I clicked on a Pocket link in Firefox, it opens the link with Pocket’s framing (ie it’s a link inside the Pocket ecosystem), but doesn’t prompt the app to open... so it denies the original website of the actual traffic and doesn’t utilise the fact that it’s a stand alone app Utterly utterly pointless. Any other recommendations for good bookmark app are welcome..Version: 7.29
✓ I used to be a happy userI used this app for many years and was a happy user. I paid for premium. But then the quality went down. My position in articles I read was lost every time the app restarted. This was a bad user experience especially since I read long articles. Even though I filed bug reports about this bug several times, it was not addressed. I now use Instapaper. It doesn’t have all the features, but at least it remembers my position..Version: 8.2.0
✓ A step backwards for macOS usersApple Silicon Mac users are being told to use the iOS app, because the macOS app was discontinued, but the share extension doesn't work for me, making it impossible to save articles from macOS Safari. Many emails with support did not resolve the issue. The app works fine on iOS but I need something cross platform. I've given up on Pocket and have started using Omnivore instead..Version: 8.0.8
✓ SUPPORTED DEVELOPER FROM DAY ONE! WOULD’T GRANDFATHER MY ONE-TIME PAY VERSION!!!Actually, I think Pocket is a great app , wonderful idea! But, I have a bitter taste for Pocket and Read It Later! When Pocket was initially introduced, I paid for the Premium version. All was well, and the app and I grew together. A year or so later, Read It Later decided to change its one-time payment setup, changing to the “hated” subscription payment method. Although I supported the developer from day one, Read It Later would not grandfather my Pro version! This, for all these years - through many associated email address changes for me - the developers treachery still makes my blood boil, I am visually impaired now and cannot afford all the money-hungry subscription plan apps. This is an app that I have always wanted to love, but the hurt gets in the way! I know it’s a great idea and a genius idea, but this is “jut another somebody done somebody wrong song!” Again, this app was fabulous back in the day. I keep the free version on my devices. Since the bad break-up, I haven’t used it fully like I wish. I want to use it! I steered clear of the “pay” version due to ethics. Now, it’s because my legally blind self can’t afford all these subscription apps! Just know, Read It Later that you offended and hurt me bad! I would love to give Pocket five stars, but I still feel too much hurt!Even so, RIL, best wishes to the app!.Version: 7.29.9
✓ New update, oh no...Every time I sign on and see something new, meaning you guys did a new update, I shake my head like "oh no, what isn't going to be working now?" Like clockwork, now I can't add tags, at all. First off, as of yesterday, I could click on "add tags" and type a letter or two of the tag, it'd search and come up with the word, I'd click on it and be done. As of today, it doesn't search for the tag, so I put the whole word in, but can't click on "save", so there's no tag function working now. Of course this is only on desktop, I have no idea what you guys messed up on the mobile version. If you really wanted to "support" your customers "technically", you'd revert this app and program to the functionality it had 7 or 8 years ago, it just worked, everything just worked, perfectly, every update you guys have done since then has made it "look nicer", but everytime it breaks some other function that I used to love about it, then by the time that's fixed I'm just thinking oh no what isnt going to be working now, it’s a great way to lose customers.Version: 7.28.5
✓ Major problem with tagging in the updated versionIn this new stupa update, when you are tagging on iPhone pocket app, the text that you write doesn't automatically get deleted when you choose your tag. Instead you have to delete the few letters you wrote and start from the beginning. For ex, if I have 2 tags: Egypt; North-Africa. If I write "egy" the tag Egypt appears (filter out) I can choose it, now in the writing bar , I still have the "egy" written, I have to delete it manually before I start adding the "north-africa" tag otherwise I end up with "egynorth". This is very annoying. It might seem simplified you are using on tag, but I use pocket as repository for articles that I use in my research, so I add many tags, in this case, this small issue becomes a nuisance and time consuming. I also suggest you add the ability to write small notes about the articles one can save in pocket; that would make your app indispensably valuable for researchers..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Core functionality is great, but suffers from trying to do too muchI've been using Pocket since the very beginning, and what it does– lets you save web pages to read later, has always been superb. It's cross-platform, cross-browser, (mostly) works offline, and never loses pages like other solutions. The problem though is it seems to suffer an existential crisis. Clearly the developers are not happy with letting it just be a (useful) utility app, and it has gone through many iterations trying to build a social network, and generally show you web pages it thinks you ought to care about. Ultimately what all of that does is add friction to a core outcome that I have always valued– sometimes I see interesting stuff that I don't want to break flow or spend the time to read there and then, and this is the perfect way to come back to it later. I wish Mozilla would just double down on that, and continue to do that better than everyone else..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Terrible updateLove the app and been using it for years, but the last update is terrible! Bad UI, and widget no longer working! Please fix….Version: 8.0.3
✓ Features removed - use the web app insteadThe two-star rating is specifically for the iPad version of the Pocket app, not the service. I’m a Premium subscriber and have been for years. It’s one of the services that always seemed worth it. Given that major features of the app appear to have been removed, I almost decided to move to one of the alternatives suggested in other reviews (Readwise Reader, Matter, or Omnivore). I’m rating the iPad app 2 stars for its barebones capability, missing content, bugs (archived articles still show as saved), lack of highlighting, and more. But here’s why I stayed with Pocket as a Premium member: the web app still works very well, though it’s missing audio capabilities, but it seems to have all the features the iPad app is missing. So, with iOS 17 I was able to add the web app (go to the Pocket website in Safari > click the share button > select “Add to Home Screen”). Now I have most features back, including my full list of saved articles from the past 10 years, with permanent cached versions, as needed. Pocket works well with IFTTT (the others do not) and the monthly premium fee is the lowest of all the ones I looked at. So maybe don’t abandon Pocket but switch to the web version of the app..Version: 8.2.0
✓ Pay online for web appThey keep deleting my honest review here, but if you want Premium fonts, etc., this app is done. Readwise Reader app is too hot for my phones. Omnivore is lightweight & free; though RSS & readable PDF has a ways to go..Version: 8.3.0
✓ Text to Speech is now patheticThe whole point of pocket is to be able to read articles without the internet. But now text to speech « needs » the internet to even work. Pretty useless. In addition, when using TTS you can no longer view the text itself, so if ever you pause TTS and close the app, you will have to start all the way from the beginning of the article. All in all, very disappointing and really the only reason I’ll be switching to Instapaper instead of this app, even though other features of pocket are better. You can do better Mozilla.Version: 7.0.10
✓ Just don't like latest change in UII used to love it but lately they changed the interface too much (could have been smoother, transparent- it just is not , few times I just want to listen to what I captured and it's not obvious to find it !! Plus it gets slower to refresh new content updated (more than minutes :( Haha, well, don't update yet !!! Regards.Version: 8.0.3
✓ Terrible updateI have been a devoted user of Pocket for quite some time, but the recent updates, which I find utterly preposterous, compelled me to export all my articles and transition to its competitor. The situation is truly dire. I am sincerely baffled by the thought process of the developers. It appears that an abundance of ill-advised decisions and a complete disregard for aesthetic sensibilities have culminated from entrusting this app to individuals who lack a genuine appreciation for reading. The very essence of a reading app lies in providing a distraction-free platform for users to delve into articles. Pure, unadulterated reading—nothing more, nothing less. Alas, they have eradicated the option to customize the background, robbing us of the chance to select a visually appealing setting that best suits our eyes. Furthermore, they have subjected us to a mere duo of abominable font choices, leaving much to be desired. The margins, in their current state, resemble an untidy jumble, exemplifying an unparalleled level of poor design. The entire experience is nothing short of lamentable. UPDATE 5th July: I have effectively deleted my account on Pocket. Moved to OMNIVORE and let me tell you, I’m quite happy! 😊😊😊.Version: 8.3.0
✓ Way too time consuming to set upI like the concept and I'm sure it would be quite a good app but setting up the bookmark process was more complicated than it should be. I've done the same set up with Pintrest and that took less time than writing this review. I tried over and over with this and it wouldn't retain the correct link for set up so I have given up. : (.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Idiotic redesignWelcome to pocket designed for 4 inch screen. Look how cool and lazy it is. So much wasted screen real estate because... why not. Works not only on your new iPhone but with minimal effort we stretched it to fill the iPad as well. We are aware that phones will change human evolution so in advanced move we had designed it for people with massive fingers and who are also half blind. We did some tidying up as well and hidden all useful options in sub menus. But seriously it was our 3 months intern 2nd project (the first one is not yet finished) - he is still learning to develop things but we think it’s a great first time effort. Don’t you?.Version: 7.0.4
✓ Better than Delicious, but too much SJW content recommendedI looked for a replacement for Delicious for a long time and eventually found Pocket. The solution is pretty good but I have not subscribed to the Premium version for one reason: there is way too much left wing and SJW content. A lot of the recommended articles are of no interest to me. Pocket is meant to recommend articles based on your saved articles. I am libertarian, pro-Trump, pro-Brexit and most of the recommended articles are from the Guardian and left-wing websites and blogs. It is clearly an algorithm that is being manipulated by left-wing employees at Pocket and therefore that is the reason I won’t pay for the premium version. It’s a real shame..Version: 7.0.3
✓ IOS 14.6 Broke PocketNo longer able to save links to pocket after the iOS 14.6 update. Great app before then, hope it gets fixed as soon as possible. Also APPLE - please stop breaking apps with iOS updates!!.Version: 7.29.2
✓ Update makes tags hard to useThe new interface on iPhone to add tags to articles I find on my phone is much harder to use Hard to easily view saved tags. Would be nice is saved tags were listed alphabetically. Saved tags are obscured by recent tags (which I don’t want to see and do not seem to genuinely reflect recent tags anyways - probably because it is so easy to tap on them by accident thus keeping them in the recent list).Version: 8.0.5
✓ Tagging doesn’t workWhy do I bother trying to organise and save articles according to tags when the tags don’t save, or even attach to the articles I save them under?.Version: 8.3.0
✓ Needs lots more work!!This app does not work satisfactorily on an iPad latest iOS version, regardless of whatever browser you try. Safari, Firefox or Google. Tried all individually and all together. Total muddle. After 3 hours of frustration I deleted it. Probably never to return..Version: 7.0.11
✓ This app is ruinedThey have completely destroyed this mobile app. I don't understand what compels developers to do this, but Pocket did it all right. They had a simple UI with a simple layout. You saved articles. You read or listened to articles. You deleted articles you read. It was simple. Now you can't swipe to delete articles. The tiny button to delete re-opens the article more often than not. It would take me hours to delete articles at this point. The tagging system is not visible on the screen due to being crowded out by the promotion, header, and search window. LOL you literally cant even SEE your tags anymore. Stepping back, the recommendations eat up a bulk of the genera layout now. A 'Home' section shows algorithmic pics. Pocket chooses 'hits' for you, and tries to behave as a social media/news aggregator. Literally no, I don't want your shock tragedy stories. This is amazing. These developers are unwell. Coming soon: unnecessary useless 'ai' features. Just watch. *Update: upon using the app again, as a early adopter, in the interest of objectivity, I should know to the team has improved the audio playback feature. It is more accessible and more intuitive to use. This was always a needed improvement, and the team appears to have done a good job here...Version: 8.3.0
✓ Nice but page flipping is a nightmareGreat app, works wonderfully for formatting web articles into nice ‘ePub’ style short reads off line. However the page flipping function is a bit of a state. I’m not sure why they thought having page flip and scrolling both active at once was a good idea, there should be a ‘hard option’ to flip (no pun intended) between them. The amount of times I’ve accidentally scrolled throwing the format out of sync because of the angle of my swipe it ridiculous.Version: 7.21.1
✓ Ruined itI’m finding it very difficult to comprehend how an update like the most recent one found it’s way through design, testing and development and into the hands of users. I mean why did you release this, what was the rush?? I’ve used pocket for years, and I’ve been a premium subscriber for most of that time, but no longer now. Not at least until I can do basic things like view all my favorites, see all my highlights, and change the display settings..Version: 8.0.3
✓ “Podcast” tts function crashes more often than a Windows 95 PCPocket used to be my absolute favorite app. I used it constantly for the text to speech function, which made reading much easier when commuting or engaged in mundane tasks. Then the app had a soft relaunch where the focus was placed on turning articles into quasi-podcasts. I couldn’t have been more pleased, until I found how poorly the changes were designed. Without exaggeration, Pocket crashes at least nine times out of ten when I try to use the text to speech function. This is an app that worked perfectly fine in text to speech mode before the developers decided to make tts a central feature! I would happily give Pocket a five star review and pay for premium of it actually worked. It would be a great pleasure to retract this review of the developers could fix whatever is wrong with Pocket so I don’t have to open it with reluctance thinking “maybe I’ll get lucky and it will work without crashing this time” (as it very occasionally does). I wouldn’t be so annoyed if it weren’t the case of an app that worked perfectly becoming virtually unusable - at least insofar as how I use it - due to ostensible improvements. Please fix this app..Version: 7.28.2
✓ BuggyIt constantly loses my list of articles leaving only the two or three newest saves. It has deteriorated a lot since becoming part of Mozilla. Do better..Version: 8.0.7
✓ Used to be great. The update is just horrible!No tags, the recommendations have gone from one good article out of ten to zero. I used to love the app but it’s going downhill fast..Version: 7.4.0
✓ Version 8 lost customisationLatest version is not good. Pocket used to be perfect. Now all font customisations are gone, with only two fonts, and which don’t save when you increase or decrease font size, or it swaps to the other font when changing font size. Buggy. Saves are not the first page anymore and it doesn’t remember where you were up to in an article when reading on a different device. Very disappointing - it was such a good app!.Version: 8.0.6
✓ Problem with listening to articlesI used to be able to listen to most articles. Now only a few articles can be listened to..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Not as good as it sounds.Tried this for almost a year. Integrates well with other apps, capturing urls for later viewing. But formatting for reading no better than inbuilt capability in Safari, and saving/sharing much harder. Unintuitive interface. No history that I could find - clicking the checkmark loses an article forever with no confirmation dialog, the last straw... Ads annoying and ad-free expensive. So goodbye..Version: 6.6.31
✓ A Very handy app, a suggestion tho..It’s what I have been looking for all this time. One thing I would appreciate Pocket doing is to have the ability to review who actually follows you (whether that be via Facebook, contacts, Pocket itself etc) as atm I don’t believe there is any privacy options. I feel this is important, thank you 👍.Version: 6.6.28
✓ Widget no longer workingI’ve been using the app for a few years. The most recent update has been a disaster. The UI is bad, and the widget no longer works. Would appreciate it if a fix was implemented asap..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Used to be my go to app until they forced Firefox down our throatsOh boy did I love pocket, used it daily as my go to app for saving links and articles. That is until the company decided it didn’t want to support Safari and tried to force Firefox down every users throat. I don’t appreciate app developers telling users what browsers they should be using. Moving to Matter now..Version: 8.1.0
✓ Newest update is a bustI’ve been a Pocket user for years and always loved it’s simple functionality. Latest update will not show any new stories (for many weeks now). Please fix!.Version: 7.29.9
✓ Médiocre en françaisJe voulais aimer cette application mais les voix en français sont carrément agaçantes. Inécoutable. Le débit est beaucoup trop rapide, et aucunes intonations naturelles. Très dommage..Version: 7.24.2
✓ They destroyed this App with the new updatesThis app used to be my all-time favorite. This situation is absolutely unacceptable. I am deeply disappointed and have no choice but to change my rating from 5 stars to zero. Ever since the app underwent a recent update and change in ownership, it has become completely unusable. It consistently crashes and freezes, rendering it practically useless. Even after attempting to resolve the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling the app, it continues to malfunction. What's worse is that I have lost 75% of my saved pages as a result. I strongly urge the company's CEO to address this matter urgently and take appropriate action to rectify the situation..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Loss of functionalityPocket 8 is a huge disappointment. Highlighting is *the* main reason I use Pocket, and now this feature is gone in the iOS app. Unlimited highlighting is a paid-for, premium feature. I would have expected this feature to be prioritized over superficial design changes. It appears that Pocket/Mozilla does not respect their paying customers..Version: 8.0.8
✓ Getting WorseI’ve been a paying member for premium since they started it, but now I’m looking at alternatives. Each release seems to bring more bugs: sometimes articles won’t parse the first attempt but do the second, tag suggestions have gotten less useful, and articles that you archive don’t disappear from your list until you refresh. In addition a major usability issue has remained since the redesign : it takes 5 taps and lots of scrolling to change the sort order..Version: 7.22
✓ Latest update = TERRIBLEAnd now just crashes Pretty much every change you’ve made with this update is a bad change. I used to be able to use your app minimized which meant I could listen while I did other things – but you can no longer do that. I used to be able to choose from a list of different voices, either male/female or with varying accents, and I had selected the one that I liked the most – but now it defaults to I have no choice you’ve selected it for me and that’s it I used to be able to manage all my articles and delete in bunches, but you could no longer do that as it constantly takes you back to the main screen and you have to delete one at a time I used to be able to play a bunch of articles in sequence, and now that no longer seems to work either I used to have at least a few options on how I wanted to view and organize my articles and account but now I basically have none In short, there is not a single change that improves my experience, but many that have reduced my use of this app by over 50% And I expect I will eventually stop altogether as this app has lost so much functionality.Version: 8.0.6
✓ Great Facility and Features; just wish it had ...Great facility, usability, and features. My only criticism is Pocket initially offered/showed many articles from which to choose, but now (after several weeks of use), it only offers a handful (e.g. 4 or 5) of articles to choose from, and sometimes JUST ONE!! If it wasn’t for this latter shortcoming (which is quite serious), the rating would have been 4 or 5 stars..Version: 7.4.0
✓ Doesn’t workThe “Match System Theme” option never works. It hasn’t since you launched it and then updated the app 2 or 3 times. Everyday I have to manually toggle the setting to make it switch. Also, your share extension does not work on iPadOS. I have to copy links and enter them manually. Why is this app so broken now?.Version: 7.10.2
✓ Just gets worse with every releaseUsed to be perfect, but someone decided perfection is unacceptable. Features lost with version 8.0.3: - App badge count - Ability to highlight - Ability to listen to an article that was opened for reading - An intuitive user interface (e.g. you have to tap on Saves & Archive icons to reveal what they are) I’ve been a premium customer for years but can’t stand these silly changes that take away the power & simplicity of this app. I hope common sense prevails and these UI gimmicks are reverted soon..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Reasonable variety of articles but very Americanised content and mainstream media approachIt’s a nice app to manage what you would like to read, especially if you have no time and would like to save it for later. What is poor in my opinion is the content. There are not enough non main mainstream articles and majority of the content is very Americanised, which leads to it self to poor quality. I will keep using it for now but there is a space for improvement..Version: 7.26
✓ Loved it before, now it’s garbageI used to love using this app—I could save all the articles I wanted to read, sync across devices, and display in a nice clean article view free of ads. But after I upgraded to version 8, it went completely downhill. I lost a couple dozen articles I had saved. It doesn’t always sync articles across devices. Articles that used to display in the “article view” don’t anymore. And now I have a “ghost” article that can’t be viewed or deleted. It just sits there taking up space. Seriously guys, why even update it if you’re going to make it significantly worse?? If these things aren’t going to be fixed, I’m going to move on to some other app because the issues are almost completely eliminating the benefits I got from using Pocket. P. S. and now it keeps crashing….Version: 8.0.6
✓ Some suggestionsAfter many years of happily using Pocket, I’m disappointed by the new format. It is now clunky and flashy like a million other apps. The default vertical list of articles is now buried a couple of key presses away. “Delete” requires 3 key presses. The overall experience has become busy and tedious. Very old review: I love this app. I just want to offer a few suggestions: 1. It would be great to have bookmark, highlight, and notes features. 2. When the original webpage has a hyperlink table contents at the top of the document, the TOC disappears in the pocket version. In a long document the TOC and the hyperlink capability would be very valuable. 3. I'm not sure how to grab the scrollbar on the right side. Sometimes it works, sometimes not; it's inconsistent. 4. Conversion of PDFs would also be useful to make them more readable on a smart phone..Version: 8.0.5
✓ It’s nice, but could be so much better!I’ve used Pocket for years now and subscribe to Premium. Overall, the app does what it’s supposed to; making for an excellent way of storing nearly anything for later viewing. However, I don’t understand the logic of having to click multiple things to share or recommend articles, adding to one’s favorites, or adding to a custom folder. It’s tedious! Instapaper has a button one can click to add to one’s “Likes” (favorites) list, as well as sharing the item to a social network, all with a single tap! Pocket could really use such a customizable feature to speed up the process of not only reading but also sharing things with others. As well as sorting content as desired. Some of the buttons in the article list are not properly labeled for VoiceOver accessibility. The Search and other menu options are labeled with a random set of characters, and have not been fixed after I’ve made reports to support about that issue. Lastly, the app tends to crash when browsing the Recommended list of articles. It’s one of the best features offered by Pocket, but again, reports of crashes have gone unanswered. That’s why I give this the lower rating. If Instapaper didn’t have its own crashing issues, I’d simply use that. But I believe Pocket is superior, but has these minor annoyances which actually add up to using additional time to complete simple tasks (IMO). Again, it’s nice, but could be so much better!.Version: 6.6.21
✓ No stars of I couldMysteriously logged out this morning so logged back in. Search for my articles by tag and getting no results when I viewed the articles yesterday. Log out and log in again. App is loading for over an hour. Delete/reinstall the app. Loads now but still no search results by tag. What are you guys doing????? I’m tired of this!.Version: 8.2.0
✓ Got worse with timeReadItLater, now Pocket, used to be my favorite read it later app. However, since the recent upgrade (more like a downgrade for me) to version 8, there are lots of functions that I used that are no longer available or don’t work right: Suggested Tags is now degraded to recent tags, tag entry doesn’t work correctly, font spacing and background color can no longer be adjusted, introduction of a Home tab that cannot be deactivated, no refresh option for articles… It is really sad to see that so many apps, now Pocket included, try to incorporate new things that are questionably useful but degrade the overall experience. I will not extend my premium subscription at this point, as I do not see the value anymore. I am sorry about this but for now, I am looking for an alternative or continue using the free version… :-(.Version: 8.0.4
✓ SlippingPocket has long been a good way to save articles for later reading (and easier readability with its ability to standardise formatting) across multiple devices, and one of the benefits of it was that it seemed to be regularly improved and updated. However the continuing and prolonged absence of the “site login” feature (which was always pretty spottily implemented when it did work, requiring a few tricks to get working with some sites) kind of knocks out a lot of the usefulness of the app and the platform. Given they don’t seem in any rush to either return this functionality or make it clear within the app itself that it’s gone, instead just leaving a dead option where it once was, using what was once a very useful app has become both frustrating and, ultimately, a bit pointless..Version: 7.29.3
✓ New Update Did -NOT- Fix IssueI usually love this app and have been in the top 1% of readers for years but since the last update it crashes every time I try to read an article or story. Makes it kind of hard to finish something when it keeps closing itself on you. :( Update: An update has been released however the issue of the app crashing every time I try to read something has not been fixed, if anything it has been made worse. In the last five minutes the story I’ve been trying to read has crashed FOUR times!! I can barely get though a paragraph before it closes on me. Please, please, PLEASE fix this issue!! At this point your app is now unusable. The only reason I’m giving it 2 stars instead of 1 is that it used to be great until very recently...I’m not what you’ve done with it but please reverse it. Maybe it’s all the sudden ads for your premium pocket in app purchase that’s making it crash? Food for thought....Version: 7.17
✓ Great app but premium version very buggyUseful app but recent updates have been a step backwards and I don’t think it’s worth subscribing because it isn’t clear what premium features this gives you. Could be so much better. It’s great to have so many web articles saved and searchable for when you have time to catch up. But the premium version is still flawed unfortunately; I wanted it for the ability to auto-tag articles but find that this crashes the app constantly (at least on my ipad). The latest version has dropped some useful functionality. I don’t seem to be able to tag multiple items, read offline or have tags suggested automatically..Version: 8.0.3
✓ Can you just bring the old app back?Seriously, how come an update can ruin the app this thoroughly? I reported bugs a few times now after the update, but they have not been fixed, and now I’m seeing bugs that make the app almost unusable every day, and I don’t have any more time or energy to write a detailed bug report. Many tags are not shown, search is broken (you search with a word in the title but result doesn’t show up), crashes several times every day. And archiving is messed up. You archive an article and other articles are archived with it. And the order of the articles in Archive is somehow mixed up all the time. Many of these bugs are hard to report because they have no fixed way to reproduce. Can you possibly just restore the old app? I can’t find a single thing that’s better in this new app, and this new app seriously makes me consider switching. I’ve been a pocket user for many years and get emails from Pocket that I’m in the top 1% by the number of articles read. But it’s really a breaking point. These days I mostly just use the Mac app, which works fine..Version: 8.0.5
✓ Big fan but now...I love this app - it’s a great way to save articles to read later. However I’m no longer able to delete articles which is annoying to say the least..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Just StartedJust downloaded the app because I’ve been trying to wean myself off social media (especially Twitter) and this is a perfect alternative in terms of bookmarking/saving articles as an reader and student but I was wondering if folders are a thing or soon will be? The tags are a great idea but seeing my leisure reads next to educational ones makes the app look cluttered. Despite this, looking forward to using the app more!.Version: 7.29.9
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