Comments on: Why I’m Ditching Instapaper in Favor of Pocket

By: Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:04:01 +0000

In reply to Mahesh Mohan. Thanks for the comment Mahesh. If you click "view original" you are brought to the article page, not just the homepage. However, I really think that Readability has matured since I wrote this and it might be worth re-evaluating as a platform.

By: Mahesh Mohan

Mahesh Mohan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:05:44 +0000

I agree 100% that Pocket is awesome. But what’s really annoying about Pocket is that it won’t allow us to visit the original URL in one-click. I don’t understand why they’re not enabling this feature. They’re including a link to the homepage of the website but not to the original URL. Hate that part so I was thinking about moving back to Instapaper.

By: pshapiro

pshapiro — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:37 +0000

I like to keep things updated. Here is cool Mac OS X client that works with Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability: http://www.macstories.net/reviews/readkit-instapaper-pocket-and-readability-client-for-os-x/

By: pshapiro

pshapiro — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:56:05 +0000

In reply to Victor Volle. @Victor Volle Thanks for sharing. I've never considered this (probably because I've never used that feature on either service), and I see how it can be very useful.

By: Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:54:30 +0000

In reply to Victor Volle. Thanks for sharing. I've never considered this (probably because I've never used that feature on either service), and I see how it can be very useful.

By: Victor Volle

Victor Volle — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:43:12 +0000

I sorely miss to be able to rename items. Some web sites have the same “title” for many pages, some have titles that are totally useless (to me).
In Instapaper it is easy to rename items. Pocket ditched that feature and although people are asking for it since the re-launch, and they promise to “look” into it seriously for quite some time, they don’t have it on their current roadmap, which is going well into 2013

By: jayden (

jayden ( — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:42:00 +0000

I have been thoroughly impressed by Pocket! Its flexibility lends itself to a lot of uses, and it’s absolutely gorgeous in article view. More than just saving it to read it later, the archive and tags option makes it possible to save it to read it again and again. Absolutely in love with the tags. It almost reminds me of Delicious again.

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:54:41 +0000

Great article, thank you! I appreciate the link to Pocket, I wasn’t able to find their site by searching, and there was no link from the ReadIt Later application page either. Thanks for the very good review and comparison as well.