Lantern

For people who lost Pocket

Your read later list
needs a new home.

Mozilla shut Pocket down in 2025. Most of the apps competing for its users answer with highlight exports, tags, feeds, AI summaries, and a monthly bill. Lantern's answer is still a reading page, simple enough that the page is the product.

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, because it’s a web page, not an app you have to install twice.

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. A full Pocket CSV import is still coming; until then a list of links is the honest path.
  • Shareable links. Every saved article has a stable address you can send to someone.
  • Free.There’s no paid tier waiting behind the third article.

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. The one exception is deliberate: every saved article also has a share link, so if you send someone the address they can read that piece. I keep those pages out of search results, because the writing in them 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.

There’s nothing to set up. Save a link and read it.

Move your reading here

Free · Works on every screen