If you have the export ZIP

Pocket's 2025 export was a ZIP of one or more CSV files, each holding up to 10,000 items, with the columns title, url, time_added, cursor, tags, status. Some exports omit the cursor column. Tags are pipe-separated, time_added is a Unix timestamp, and status is either unread or archive. Bindle reads that file directly: each row becomes a bookmark with its original saved date, its tags, and unread state mapped to Bindle's to-read flag. Everything comes in private. Then the archiver fetches every URL and stores a copy, which is the part Pocket never gave you back.

Older exports, from before mid-2025, were a single ril_export.html file in the Netscape bookmark format. Bindle imports that too; it is the same format every browser uses.

Expect some of the links to be dead. Pocket libraries tend to be old, and about a quarter of the pages that existed a decade ago no longer do. Bindle flags each one it cannot fetch, so you can see the damage instead of discovering it one 404 at a time.

If you missed the export window

There is no supported way to get a Pocket library back. Mozilla's policy was permanent deletion after the deadline, and third-party guides in 2026 confirm the export endpoint is gone. What remains is partial: your browser history, if you saved from a desktop browser and have not cleared it; the Pocket emails and newsletters in your inbox; and, for anything you shared, the links in your messages. None of that restores tags, archive state or highlights.

Browser history is the best of these. Chrome, Firefox and Safari can all export or be queried for history; filter it to the days you remember saving things, or search it for getpocket.com/save and the referring pages. Save the survivors to Bindle and they are archived from that moment on.

Where the other Pocket users went, and what they pay now

Instapaper took most of the read-later refugees; its Premium tier, which is where full-text search and the permanent archive live, doubled to $59.99 a year in January 2024. Raindrop.io is free for unlimited bookmarks, but permanent copies, full-text search and the broken-link finder are all in Pro, $27.99 a year. Readwise Reader has no free tier and costs $119.88 a year billed annually. Matter moved most of its features behind an $8-a-month subscription in 2025. Omnivore, the open-source option many people chose in 2024, was acquired and shut down that November with about two weeks' notice.

The pattern is the one this page is about. The archive is the feature that protects you from a service dying, and every mainstream option charges extra for it or does not offer it. Bindle's whole design decision is to include it in the one plan, because a bookmarking service without the copy is just a list of pointers.

What Bindle is not

Bindle reads from the archive: every saved page opens as clean text in a reader with inline highlights and notes. What it does not do is text-to-speech, Kindle delivery, or an offline mobile app — if those were your Pocket habit, Instapaper is closer. If what you needed is a library that stays intact, with the pages inside it and readable, Bindle is the direct replacement.