Why people are looking for a Pocket alternative
Pocket shut down in July 2025, which left a lot of people holding a CSV export and no obvious place to put it. The gap is not really the saving. Saving a link was never the hard part. The hard part is that a read-later list grows faster than anyone reads, and after a few hundred entries you cannot tell what any given link was for.
That is the problem Nook was built around. A saved link in Nook arrives with a summary, an estimated reading time and tags, so six weeks later the shelf still tells you what you kept and why.
How to move your Pocket export into Nook
Pocket's export is a CSV file. Nook reads it directly, so there is no conversion step and nothing to clean up first.
Create a Nook account, which takes an email and a password.
Open Import and upload the CSV you exported from Pocket.
Nook queues the rows and reports per-row errors instead of failing the whole file.
Enrichment runs in the background, so summaries fill in while you browse.
What Nook does that Pocket did not
Pocket was a good clipboard and a poor library. Nook is trying to be the library.
- An AI summary on every link, so you can judge a save without opening it.
- Full-text search across titles, summaries and your own notes, not just URLs.
- Related picks that pull connected links out of your own shelf.
- Notes attached to any link, next to the summary and reading time.
- Nested collections, so a shelf can have real structure instead of one flat tag list.
Where Nook is still behind
Worth saying plainly, because the honest comparison is more useful than a feature grid. Nook has no offline reading mode and no text-to-speech, both of which Pocket had. There is no public API yet. Highlighting inside an article is not built. If offline reading is the reason you used Pocket, Nook is not a replacement for you yet.
Common questions
- Is Nook free?
- Nook is free while it is in beta. Every feature is unlocked with no card required. The published plans are Free at €0 and Pro at €4 per month, or €36 a year, and they start charging only after beta ends.
- Can I import my Pocket export into Nook?
- Yes. Nook reads Pocket's CSV export directly. Upload it under Import and the rows are queued for enrichment in the background.
- Does Nook have a browser extension?
- Yes, there is a Chrome extension called Nook, Save to shelf. It saves the current tab to your shelf in one click. Nook also registers as a share target, so on Android you can save from any app's share sheet.
- Does Nook read articles offline?
- No. Offline article reading is not built yet. Nook installs as a PWA and its interface works offline, but article content is not cached for offline reading.