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Add to SafariWhen comparing Pocket vs Poki (for Pocket), the Slant community recommends Pocket for most people. In the question“What are the best read-it-later apps for Windows?” Pocket is ranked 1st while Poki (for Pocket) is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Pocket is:
Pocket is available on iOS, Android, Kobo eReader and on the web.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Available on the web and mobile devices
Pocket is available on iOS, Android, Kobo eReader and on the web.
Pro Allows reading saved content in offline mode
Instead of only saving the link, the content is saved for offline use.
Pro Well-finished GUI and UX
Pro The Pocket plugin for Google Chrome is very stable
Pro Allows tagging bookmarks
Bookmarks can be tagged for search accuracy later on.
Pro Included in Firefox
Pocket is now integrated into the Firefox web browser, and you can login using your firefox/mozilla login, instead of having to create a separate account. This login method can even be used natively on their website, regardless what browser is being used.
Pro Integrates with over 500 apps
A key advantage of Pocket is that it is integrated in over 500 apps as a way to save the link, including Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.
Pro Works well across Google Chrome on macOS and iOS
Pro Highlighting available on iOS
Pro Ability to filter by content type
Pro Comparatively feature complete to Pocket
Similar to the official Pocket app, Poki comes with many features that are available in the official Pocket app such as offline viewing, text-to-speech, search by title, URL or tags, find articles by tag and customizable reading view. This makes for no reason to use Pocket over Poki as Poki has all of Pockets features, plus a bunch of their own.
Pro Beautifully crafted
Unlike the Pocket main app, the design of the Poki app is specially crafted based on the Modern UI in addition to the great enhancements of the additional design and functionality, which makes this one of the most beautiful Windows app to date.
Pro Offline storage allows for unlimited storage (depending on how much offline storage one has)
Poki is capable of storing articles offline so that the user can view the article anytime even if they don't have an internet connection. Users can also set a maximum number of articles to be downloaded to the device which is useful for devices with a limited storage capacity. This way users are not limited to how much online storage Poki allots the user.
Pro Conveninent text-to-speech
Text-to-speech is a features that allows the app to automatically generate speech from an articles text in order to assist people who wish to listen to the article rather to read an article. This is convenient for when the user is doing other work or just can't look at the screen.
Pro Themes make the app feel more personal
There are 4 themes for the main app and 5 themes for reading view. The default will be the dark theme. These themes allow the user to customize their experience.
Pro Achievements make reading a game
Achievements is a features only available in Poki (and not the first party Pocket app) that gives users a way to unlock special achievements whenever they read an article or are active in any activities in usage of the Poki app. This allows the user to be drawn into the app and creates a reason to keep coming back, by making a game out of reading.
Cons
Con Only the paid version allows to search by tag
Con Correct and open export of bookmarks and tags are not possible
This means that Pocket is (currently) a total lock-in.
This is very sad, unfortunate and creates a no go decision for any seasoned user.
Too many bookmarking and tagging companies have stopped or have gone bankrupt these last years (e.g. Kippt, Spingpad, Delicious (to some extent), etc...). So, if you are going to invest a lot of your personal time and energy in curating your Internet findings (i.e. your bookmarks and tags), it is essential that a total, fair and open export (including all tags) functionality is provided. Personally tested the export "feature" and the resulting .html file that Pocket generates currently included only the URLs themselves, i.e. no save dates nor any of your personally curated tags, nor any other useful meta-data.
This is deplorable, because otherwise, Pocket is a very polished and well-functioning piece of multi-platform and multi-device software/app/web service, with a very easy and well-designed and implemented user interface...
Please fix this, Pocket !
These days of open and inter-operable web services, users are only attracted by valuable functionality, clean UX design and no lockins.
Con Search function in Pro version does not follow the proper date sequence
Although the pro version lets us search by tags, the search results unfortunately does not follow the time sequence of the saving of articles. Search results may show some old articles first, then a bunch of new articles, and then again old articles. It's so random and frustating.
I have been using Pocket pro for quite a long time primarily because it lets me have the permanent copy of a news (this feature is really useful in journalism). However, when I search tag wise for the old references, the absence of time-sequencing the search results really frustates me.
Con Can't rename the title of links
If the page title isn't correct/good for a link, there is no way for you to fix it.
Con Not really a bookmark tool but a tool to save webpages for later reading
A real bookmark tool has editable fields like title, url, folder, tags, notes. This saves webpages.
Con Deleted or edited tags do not go away from tag suggestions
For example, imagine you accidentally created a tag "US" instead of "USA," and saved some articles under "US." The unfortunate part is even if you edit the tag and rename it "USA" , the previous tag name will always appear in the suggested tags: so when saving an article, if you type US in the tag box, you will see two suggestions "US" and "USA."
Con Chrome addon doesn't let you open your library without saving current page first
Con Can't import Firefox bookmark tags
When importing bookmarks from Firefox, Pocket doesn't include the tags.
Con Chrome addon doesn't allow you to add tags with keyboard only (have to use mouse) while saving page
Con Can't access Pocket's native sharing functionality
Poki can't share articles with other Pocket users directly through Pocket's service. Instead they're sent as links via email.
