Pocket

by Read It Later, Inc

Product Details

• ASIN: B0057PAY8G
• Original Release Date: March 9, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 23, 2011
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (393 customer reviews)

Product Features

• Save articles, videos, and images from anywhere on the web.
• View saved items in a clean and simplified full-screen UI.
• Organize easily with the new bulk edit tool - archive, favorite, tag and delete.
• Content Type Filter to automatically filter your articles, videos and images.
• Seamlessly sync to Pocket on all major platforms, including Android, iPhone and iPad, and a powerful new web app.

Technical Details

• Size: 3.7MB
• Version: 4.5.2
• Developed By: Read It Later, Inc
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Read the user's contacts data
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

150 of 163 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Essential app for Kindle Fire... if you're careful. December 22, 2011

By MagnoliaSouth TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

I love this thing. The Kindle Fire has one serious downfall, that being that you cannot surf the web without a wifi connection (meaning no 3G). Many times, I want to read online articles while I'm waiting in non-hotspots. This is great for downloading web articles to read later, but ONLY if you're careful. More on that in a minute.

There seem to be a lot of complaints about not being able to create an account after downloading the app. I've not had that problem. It worked fine. However the Help section does not specifically address Kindle Fire (at the time of this writing). I finally figured it out though and for anyone who wishes to know:

In the Kindle Fire browser (aka Silk) tap the Menu button (on the Options Bar) > Share Page > then Read it Later > Done!

You should get a notification in the top left that a download is complete.

The one serious complaint I have, hence the 3-star review instead of 5, is that it cannot access my Read Archive if I'm not connected to the Internet.

The thing which troubles me is that this is not a glitch. At first glance, this seems okay. I can understand that we don't want to cache all previously read articles, but if I've accidentally hit the check mark as read, then I should be able to undo it. There is no way, that I can find, to do that at all. It should have an option to cache any archived articles before it's next sync. This way you still have access to all recently (or currently, or whatever) cached articles while still offline.

This one thing is a very grave error on their part and should definitely be fixed. I can't believe that they haven't thought of this.

I took my mother to the doctor and was reading a very long article that I downloaded off of Wikipedia. I accidentally tapped the check mark to mark it as read (I was trying to hit the Home key) and poof, it was gone. When I went to pull it up out of the Archive, it refused saying I needed to be connected to the internet, which was BS because I was just reading it without the internet, thank you very much!

Until it offers this feature, I have no choice but to downgrade it's rating. Otherwise, it's a great app and I would normally highly recommend it. If you're super careful and not fully depending on the content you've downloaded, then you'll likely still find it useful. I wouldn't use it though if I needed it for assignments in class or anything.

39 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars the best multi-platform news reading service July 8, 2011

By l2 TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Verified Purchase

I switched to Read It Later (RIL) from Instapaper when RIL released a dedicated Android app. There are unofficial Instapaper apps for Android, but all of them have limited functionality. Both services are great for downloading and organizing web pages that you want to read some time, but cant' right now (much nicer than keeping dozens tabs open in my PC web browser). The dedicated Android app automatically syncs my list between my PC, phone, and tablet, both for reading articles and for saving links from Facebook or Google Reader or any other app that supports link sharing. The app also caches your articles to your phone's SD card so you do not need a data connection when you are reading (e.g. on a plane or subway). RIL Pro is slick, fast, robust, and has all the features that I want for only $1.

My only complaint is that the PC desktop website is not as powerful as the Android app, especially if you are not using Firefox.

36 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Useful App - Recommended July 4, 2011

By Kim T

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a very useful app for those that often multi-task. I may see an interesting article while searching for something else & this app allows me to save the article to read at my leisure. No need to have to remember how I "got there" to find it again later - it is stored on my SD and in my reading list. I purchased this while "on sale" but feel this app is definitely worth the full asking price. Great Job!