Pocket: Save. Read. Grow. 8.32.0.0

Reviews

3 ★, on 2021-06-12
Not bad for a free product. Voices are robotic with many mispronunciations. For instance Live (as in a live concert) and Live (as in Live your best life) are pronounced the same. Or the root of Famous an Infamous are pronounced the same. Another negative is that there is no automatic page scrolling. But it gets the job done so i can do more reading. And I appreciate that the app provides a wide variety of font sizes and out- loud reading speeds

5 ★, on 2021-06-15
Great App. I initially ignored Pocket when it started to appear in my Firefox Homepage, thinking it's just generic content. But then I started paying attention to the kind of topics that were covered, and it was exactly the kind of content I wanted to read. It's time well spent rather than scrolling for hours on social media. And you could tell that the content was curated, for the kind of quality they maintained consistently. Highly recommended.

5 ★, on 2021-06-19
what could be more convenient than an app that let's me throw anything i run across and want to keep safe to look at another time when I have more time, or just to file away safely where I know I can find later if or when I might need the information again with a simple "Share" and "Save" it to my Pocket. Done as simple as that. I can even go back later and "Search" to find what I've saved and organize it into categories for easy access whenever I need to find it easier again. Love it!

5 ★, on 2021-06-29
Undoubtedly the best app. Thank you so much. But just a little detail I have found that when you change brightness then whatever you do but brightness of text won't be low as firstly installed default brightness level and this creates remarkable contrast that hurts my eyes a little bit :). I hope you will check it )

3 ★, on 2021-07-02
Pocket is great for saving web pages and reading them later. I can tag them, see them in a simplified article view and highlight the pages. But where it lets me down is exporting my highlights. I share the highlights one by one but not all at once. Pocket also does not allow sending the highlights to my note taking app by using IFTTT.

2 ★, on 2021-06-24
I bought Pocket Premium Annual Membership on 1st Jan 2021 and have faced the following issue since then. 1. Error in fetching images(sometimes) from articles. Pocket does not reliably fetch images(sometimes) from the web articles that i save. Some times it does a great job & when it fails i am forced to swtich to Web View. This uncertainty sometimes makes me anxious and every time i save article i have to manually compare Original Website article with article saved to pocket to note the missing photos & give that article a separate "Missing Photo" Tag. I do this so that the next time i come back to this article i switch to Web View to read the article which requires data. (which makes no sense as i bought pocket so that i can read article offline), so i am not sure if i have to continue paying for premium subscription next year. Missing images can be great problem when there is a paragraph describing a particular image (this is especially the case when you read science articles) and you to refer the image to make sense of the paragraph. I don't understand what is the purpose of "Report Article Problem" option. i have used this options to report articles months ago facing above mentioned issue but again i am faced with the same issues even after refreshing the article. 2. When i highlight certain sections of the article in article view and later switch to viewing all my highlights in the article, all the text formatting in the original article view like bold, italic & different font styles is lost. This should not be the case as this text formatting is there to describe the importance of particular words & lines in the paragraphs. Even the Headings & Sub-Headings loose their formatting this is just not acceptable. I also have many other UI suggestions that will make this review very lengthy, but i am interested to share if Pocket Customer Support team is interested. Finally i am going to give 2 Stars for the above mentioned reasons. I am willing to update my review & rating if the above mentioned issues(at least the first one) are resolved.