How to migrate your Pocket data: export steps and switching

First, export your data

Pocket lets you export your list of saved articles (URLs and some metadata). There's a deadline before shutdown and data deletion, so if you haven't exported yet, make it your first priority. The exported file works both for importing elsewhere and as your own backup.

Import into a replacement

Many read-later services — Instapaper, Raindrop.io and others — support importing a Pocket export. Once you've picked a destination, importing the file carries over your past saves.

What to reconsider while migrating

• Personal or team use (do you need sharing?)
• Whether you need read/unread tracking
• Search you can rely on later (tags, full-text, semantic)
• A saving path (extension, share sheet, app) that fits your routine

When a team carries it over

A personal move is just picking a destination. Carrying over information a team shared needs a service with sharing units and per-member read-status. Handing everyone a personal tool won't solve sharing or read tracking.

If you move to LaterHub

LaterHub combines team sharing, read-status, AI summaries and semantic search. It doesn't offer a bulk importer yet, so you'd re-save the important items from your Pocket export via the browser extension or share sheet. Because AI adds a summary, key points and tags the moment you save, you restart in a "findable and read" state rather than just copying links across.

Summary

The first step is exporting before the deadline. Then choose a destination on personal-vs-team, read tracking and search. For team use, a service with sharing and read-status is the safer bet.