Pocket (application)
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| Original author(s) | Read it Later, Inc. |
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| Developer(s) | Mozilla Corporation |
| Initial release | 2007 |
| Platform | OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, Kobo, web browser |
| Type | Online bookmarking, saving articles for later reading |
| License | Freemium |
| Alexa rank |  622 (as of February 2017) |
| Website | getpocket |
Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. It is available for OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Kobo eReaders, and web browsers. The application was originally intended only for desktop computers.
The application allows the user to save an article or web page to remote servers for later reading. The article is then sent to the user's Pocket list (synced to all of their devices) for offline reading. Pocket removes clutter from articles and allows the user to adjust text settings for easier reading.
Pocket was introduced in August 2007 as a Mozilla Firefox browser extension, named Read It Later by Nathan (Nate) Weiner. Once his product was used by millions of people, he moved his office to Silicon Valley. Four other people then joined the Read It Later team. Weiner's intention was to have the application be like a TiVo for web content and giving users access to that content on any device.
Read It Later obtained venture capital investments of US$2.5 million in 2011 and an additional $5.0 million in 2012. In addition to some unnamed angel investors, funds came from Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, and Founder Collective. The company rejected an acquisition offer by Evernote after showing concerns that it intended to shut down the service and amalgamate its functionality into its main service.
Initially a free and a paid version - including additional features - of the Read It Later app were available. After the rebranding to Pocket, all paid features were made available in a free and advertisement-free app. In May 2014, a paid subscription service called Pocket Premium was introduced, adding server side storage of articles and more powerful search tools.
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