Your read later list
needs a new home.

What Pocket actually did for you

Strip away the features almost nobody used and Pocket was two things: a button that saved a link, and a page that showed you the article without the newsletter popup, the cookie wall, the autoplaying video, and four ads stacked between paragraphs. That’s the part people miss.

Lantern is that part. Paste a link and it fetches the page, pulls out the article, and sets it in one typeface at a comfortable width. It remembers where you stopped. It works the same on a phone and a laptop, through the same account on web, iPhone, and iPad.

What you get

• A clean reading page for anything you save. Ads, share widgets, and interstitials don’t make it through. Web articles, PDFs you link to or upload, and text you paste all land in the same reader.
• Your place is kept. Close a long piece halfway through on your phone and pick it up on a laptop where you left it.
• Passages you keep. Select text while you read, and it waits for you, private to you, not a research system. A few come back each day if you want them to.
• Light and dark, and text you can size. Five steps, remembered per device.
• A library you can search and archive. No folders to maintain, and no tag system to invent and then abandon.
• A way to bring a list over. Paste many URLs at once and Lantern fetches them in the background. Lantern accepts a list of URLs, not a Pocket CSV file.
• Shareable links. A source-backed article stays private until you choose Share. That creates an unlisted link you can revoke later. Pasted text and uploaded private files stay private.
• Free. There’s no paid tier waiting behind the third article.

Can you still export from Pocket?

No. Pocket closed on July 8, 2025. Mozilla ended exports on November 12, 2025 and queued the remaining user data for deletion, according to its Pocket shutdown notice. Lantern cannot recover a library from Pocket’s servers.

How to bring an existing export into Lantern

1. Open the Pocket export you previously downloaded in a spreadsheet app and copy the article URLs. Keep the export as a backup.
2. In Lantern, open the add menu and choose Import links.
3. Paste one URL per line, up to 200 at a time. Choose Start import.
4. Review the results. Lantern fetches each original page again, so a removed page, paywall, or publisher restriction may prevent a save.

This brings over links. It does not transfer Pocket tags, highlights, reading positions, or archived copies. If you do not have an export, you can still start a new list with links from your bookmarks.

What it’s for

Lantern is early, and deliberately small. It does the saving, the reading, and a few quiet extras that still feel like reading, not a filing cabinet.

That’s the point. You found something good, you don’t have twenty minutes right now, and you want it waiting somewhere quiet when you do.

Where your articles live

Saved articles are tied to your account and private to you. Choosing Share on an article saved from a public source enables an unlisted link, which you can revoke. Pasted text and private uploads cannot be published. Shared pages stay out of search results, because the writing belongs to the people who wrote it, not to me.

If a reflective or e-paper screen is what you read on, there’s a page about that.