Save to Pocket

The easiest, fastest way to capture articles, videos, and more.
What is Save to Pocket?
'Save to Pocket' is a user-friendly Chrome extension that gives users the ability to easily save any form of content from the web, whether it be articles, images, videos, or links. Access your content from any device in a clean, distraction-free environment. Enjoy enhanced reading features and content organization with the help of tools like tags. The extension allows for content capture from a wide range of sources including Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Reddit, Pinterest and more. Use Save to Pocket to carve out a personal corner on the internet, where you can focus and spend quality time with the stories that matter most to you.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000,000+
Rating: 4.23 (7,804)
Version: 4.0.6 (Last updated: 2022-11-07)
Creation date: 2019-07-24
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
  • cookies
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • *://getpocket.com/*
Size: 364.54K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

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Pocket’s Chrome extension is the easiest, fastest way to capture articles, videos, and anything else you find on the web. With one click, the content you’ve collected appears across all your devices in a clean, distraction-free space—there to read when you’re ready, whether at home, at work, or on the go. Pocket becomes a personal, quiet corner of the internet where you can spend quality time with the stories that matters to you.

SAVE CONTENT 3 DIFFERENT WAYS

  • Click the Pocket button in the toolbar
  • Or right-click a link and select “Save to Pocket”
  • Or use the keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows), Command+Shift+P (Mac)

A HOME FOR CONTENT YOU CARE ABOUT

  • Save anything that interests you—articles, images, videos, links—and absorb them when you're ready
  • Capture news from Buzzfeed, articles from The New York Times, stories from Flipboard, long reads from Washington Post, and recipes from Pinterest. You can save memes from Reddit, links from Twitter, and videos from YouTube
  • Read directly in Pocket, a calm, focused environment
  • Add tags to order, sort, and find stories in your Pocket

Get Pocket Premium to enjoy custom fonts, a permanent library, unlimited highlighting, and more. Even try listening to articles in Pocket when you're on the go. https://getpocket.com/premium

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Handy tool for saving articles and links for later reading.
  • Helps users stay focused by organizing articles.
  • User-friendly interface and organization features.
  • Allows reading saved content offline.
  • Reliable service for storing articles.
Cons
  • Issues with tag suggestions not appearing.
  • Persistent save pop-up that does not close.
  • Login problems and lengthy login process.
  • Inability to highlight or annotate text on saved pages.
  • Right-click options not functioning.
Most mentioned
  • User interface and organization of saved content.
  • Problems with tag functionality.
  • Persistent pop-up notifications after saving.
  • Login difficulties.
  • Desire for additional features like text annotation.
Recent reviews
At Tooltivity.com, we manually test productivity browser extensions and provide honest and detailed reviews. Save to Pocket received an good rating of 7.4 in our tests. In our evaluation, we considered the categories of features, design, ease of use, security & privacy, value for money and performance. You can find the full test report here: https://tooltivity.com/extensions/save-to-pocket
by Nils Bongarts, 2024-11-16


Pocket is a really handy tool, I love the interface, organization and everything, except, wish they had a feature to annotate or highlight and save specific content or piece of text on a webpage. This would be a killer feature where others have evidently failed.
by Gtr Michaels, 2024-10-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Save to Pocket requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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