Pocket is gone — your reading list shouldn't be. Save articles in Raindrop.io like always; PocketReader pulls them down, archives each one's full text and images on your own disk, and gives you a calm place to read, search, highlight and revisit them — online or off. No subscription, no server, no cloud. One portable folder you actually own.
For a decade, "read it later" meant Pocket — save now, read later, trust it'll be there. Then Mozilla shut it down for good. Raindrop.io is the natural place to save now (unlimited bookmarks, free), but the reading half has walls: full-text search, permanent copies of your articles and annotations are all locked behind Pro, and everything opens online-only — one dead link or new paywall and the article you saved is gone. PocketReader fills that gap. Point it at your Raindrop account once and your library becomes yours: it reads beautifully offline, it's searchable to the last word, and it outlives link-rot and paywalls.
The features Raindrop charges for, done locally and for free — plus a lot it doesn't do at all.
It caches the full article text and images to your disk, so reading, searching and highlighting all work with no connection — and survive link-rot and paywalls.
Search the words inside every cached article, not just titles and tags — across tens of thousands of articles in milliseconds.
Highlight text right in the reader and jot a private note per article. Both are saved locally and reappear every time you open it.
Built-in offline text-to-speech reads any article aloud, and one click exports it to a clean PDF exactly as it reads.
Star ratings, a drag-and-drop tag manager, reading progress with resume, a statistics page, and browse by Favorites, Unread, Notes, Highlights or any tag.
It only ever reads from Raindrop and never writes back. No telemetry, no external AI — your ratings, notes and highlights stay on your machine.
One self-contained folder — no Docker, no server to babysit. Install to any drive or run it portable from a USB stick. It isn't code-signed, so if SmartScreen warns you, click More info, then Run anyway.
No PocketReader account, no second device. Sign in once with a Raindrop token — it never leaves your computer, and it only lets PocketReader read your bookmarks.
Your articles, tags, notes, highlights and settings all live in the folder next to the app. Copy that folder to a new PC or drive and your whole library travels with it.
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