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🗓️ 14 December 2025
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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Curt asks Mikah Sargent about a good replacement to the Pocket app, an app that allowed you to save articles for later reading, which Firefox discontinued back in July of 2025.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on hands-on tech, let's take a look at replacing a beloved app with something new. |
| 0:07.8 | It's all about what to do when Pocket has left you. |
| 0:11.7 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Hands On Tech. |
| 0:27.7 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and as is my way. |
| 0:33.9 | I am pulling your questions out of Santa's bag and answering them for you. |
| 0:42.3 | Here on this bit of parchment, I've rolled out from the bag it says, the question comes |
| 0:47.3 | from Kurt. |
| 0:48.3 | Kurt writes in and says, my wife and I used to use an app called Pocket. |
| 0:53.3 | It was fantastic. |
| 0:54.6 | It would curate and offer articles. |
| 0:56.8 | In addition, you could add articles to the app |
| 0:59.1 | as you came across them, and then the app would read them back to you. |
| 1:02.3 | You could load the library up with articles from any source, |
| 1:05.7 | and it would go from one to the next effortlessly. |
| 1:08.8 | The best part was it was free. The app is gone. Are you familiar |
| 1:13.6 | with this? Do you know of a good replacement? We miss reading articles from multiple sources. |
| 1:18.6 | I do know about this, Kurt. So let's talk about what happened to Pocket. Where did you go, Pocket? |
| 1:26.6 | So Pocket was an app that I actually used as well. |
| 1:31.0 | I am very much a save it for later kind of person, much to my detriment a lot of the times. And so I will, |
| 1:38.7 | you know, quickly find something that I like, pop it into at the time, Pocket, and then hopefully go back and read it later. |
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