App Review : Pocket, formerly Read It Later

This is an application you would love to download. It’s because it provides you what you want in each and every factors! If you find good sentence, article or picture on Web but want to have saved to read it later then you won’t have to copy paste and save it, just Pocket it! Even videos are saved! How interesting is that? Check out detailed review to find out.

So now let me introduce it by its birth. Pocket (formerly Read It Later) was founded in 2007 by Nate Weiner (picture below) to help people who discover an interesting article, video or web page, but don’t have time to view it. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device – phone, tablet or computer. It can be viewed while waiting in line, on the couch or during commutes or travel – even offline.

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Pocket has now over 4.5 million registered users and is integrated into over 300 apps including Flipboard, Twitter and Zite. It is available for major devices and platforms including iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android, Google Chrome, and Firefox. See the screen shots below:
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It has beautiful UI which comes with three beautiful themes, dark, white and creamish. Initially after downloading and application, one have to login with their credentials, if one doesn’t have registered, one can do it by application itself. So after login you will get a welcome screen and will teach you how to Pocket and read it later. Its very ease of function. Even a child can do it.

After you have login, you will get blank Page because if you haven’t pocket any! Now to Pocket, from any website, just share a Page to Pocket! That’s it! How easy it is right? And you are on PC or laptops or tabs, you can download the pluggin for chrome or Firefox browsers for it. Just select text or content and right click it and save to Pocket! That easy it is! Now if you want to read any time on your cell phone, just open Pocket and you will find those all articles or texts or any contents that you have Pocket earlier.
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You can Pocket even images and videos too.

Another thing in Pocket application is you can favourite it and archive it and even tag any articles! Wow! Isn’t seems great? How easy it makes our work?

You can have bookmark button or Chrome extension to Pocket it from the website directly. And to Pocket it from mobile phones you have share menu from any application you are using!

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From setting menu, you have dark theme, and too black theme in it. After that you have open best view, which enforces an application to download any contents in easy view so that you don’t have to open a browser for it to read.

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You can even set it to wifi synchronization only or even truly online! As per your data plan you may go with. You have choice to store a cache on SD card if you have less memory. You can clear all downloaded files just by one click.

You can even share that Pocket article to other applications and the best thing I love in this application is you can share full article by one click to email, Bluetooth or send it by wifi direct! This is a great feature! See he screen shot here:

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You will find email article view directly to anyone. This is great and very important function because you don’t have to copy paste full, just share and its done!
Pocket is free and without any advertisements! Check its official page here.

Watch the video explaining how to Pocket below

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