This guide is for you if you already have a Pocket export file (HTML). Pocket shut down in 2025 and Mozilla closed export in November 2025 — you can't download your library from Pocket anymore, but a saved file still works in PauseRead.
Look for an HTML file you downloaded from Pocket before November 2025. Common places: your Downloads folder, an email from Pocket with the export attached, or a cloud backup (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud). The file is usually named something like part_XXXXX.html.
Pocket's export page is no longer online — you cannot request a new export from Mozilla.
Sign in with a magic link, no password needed.
Drop the Pocket HTML file on the import page.
Your saved articles appear in your inbox, each with a clean reader copy.
If you never downloaded an export before November 2025, your Pocket library cannot be recovered — Mozilla deleted the data, and no app can bring it back. Check old devices and email one more time; if nothing turns up, start a new reading list in PauseRead.
Compare other read-later options or read our overview of life after Pocket.
No. Pocket shut down in July 2025, and Mozilla disabled data export on November 12, 2025. The export page at getpocket.com/export no longer works. Import only works if you already saved an export file on your computer, in email, or in cloud storage.
Unfortunately, no. Mozilla deleted Pocket user data after the export window closed. PauseRead — and every other read-later app — can only import from a file you already have. You can still use PauseRead to save new articles going forward.
The HTML export Pocket used to provide. Upload that single file and we'll read your saved links from it — no manual copy-paste.
Most libraries import in minutes; a few hundred articles is no problem. Larger libraries finish in the background while you start reading.
Yes. Import is available so you can move off Pocket without friction. The free plan covers 100 saves; Pro lifts the limit and prioritizes large imports.
You get a summary of what came in. Anything we couldn't fetch is listed with a link to the original, so nothing silently disappears.
Yes — JSON or Markdown, anytime. We import you in without locking you in.
Sign in and upload it — your saved links will land in your inbox.