Comment by nchapman
5 days ago
I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed.
Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices, and access all your saves offline across all of your devices. If you enjoyed Pocket, you'll feel right at home! It’s still early days but all the core features are solid and working well.
Pocket imports are available via their API (though it’s been a little flaky lately), and I’m wrapping up file imports from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Raindrop, and Readwise so it should be easy to make the switch really soon.
Lots of fun stuff planned ahead. I’d love to have you join us if you’re looking for a new home!
This is incredible and just what I wanted. Chrome extension and mobile app, and I could even seamlessly import all my pocket data direct from pocket. Absolutely using this. I don't tend to read things offline as much since internet is everywhere now, but I love having all my bookmarks in a nice browsable format with tagging.
Can you bring back the old Pocket recommendation system that had a finite number of articles recommended per day / per refresh window? I loved having an app to discover articles that wasn't an infinity pool, and stopped using it after the redesign.
Yes, that's the plan! We have the beginnings of this today. Excited to make it a lot better over time.
Amazing. I downloaded it. Hope you can find a way to make it sustainable.
It would help if you posted some UI images for the web app so I could have a look without having to signup
Thanks, good feedback!
Android app not available in my country - India. Not I was able to install via Aurora store.
Firefox Addon not available.
Hope I am able to install soon and can use it on Firefox browser.
Sorry, it's not available via the Aurora store. I'm going to do another release tonight – I'll make sure India is enabled in the Play Store. I don't think there are any limitations on the Firefox Add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/folio-save-no...
Does Folio actually copy the content (i.e. if the original article is removed, Folio still has it) or does it function as a collection of bookmarks that it changes the presentation of?
Yes, we copy the content. We store both the original HTML and a copy of the extracted text as markdown. The text is what is synced to your device.
Great! Is there an export feature? I'd like to read articles on my e-reader, ideally as epub.
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Thank you for answering! I'll be giving this a shot sometime :)
Did you use flutter to write the app. Asking because the UI looks exactly the same on all platforms.
It's React Native which has been great. Still some work to do to make things really nice on large screens but overall a great experience.
nice, i last used react native 3 years ago, been using flutter since, bit will try it with my new project and compare performance.
Do you have an API?
We don't have a public API yet. When things stabilize, we definitely will!