What features are included in Pocket Premium?
Pocket is a free service that helps you discover and save web content to read later on any device. Pocket Premium is a subscription that adds powerful features like unlimited highlighting and permanent library for better organization. You can subscribe to Monthly or Yearly plans, and save money by choosing the latter. Cancel anytime.
Continue reading to learn more about Pocket Premium and the descriptions of each Premium feature.
Pocket for iOS version 8.0 is temporarily missing the following premium features: layout customization (additional fonts), highlighting, and permanent library. While we provide follow-up updates to return these to our new iOS experience, you can access these features on the Pocket website or Android apps.
To learn more about the new Pocket experience for iOS, check our blog post.
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Save unlimited articles, videos, and other web pages |
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Sync your articles automatically across iOS, Android, your computer, and Kobo e-readers |
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Add Tags to organize and keep track of your saved items |
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Save from hundreds of apps including Twitter, Flipboard, and more |
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Save from your favorite browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge and more |
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Listen to your saved articles with our text-to-speech feature |
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Need help? Get your questions answered quickly by our customer support team |
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See no sponsored content in Pocket's app, website or in Pocket Hits emails |
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Access complete article search and more advanced search options with Full-Text Search |
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See your 3 most recently used tags as Suggested Tags for faster organizing |
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Access unlimited text highlighting to engage more deeply with saved text |
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Create forever copies of your saved articles with Permanent Library so you can always return to them |
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Make Pocket your own with custom reading layouts and 8 additional font options |
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More about Pocket Premium features
Ad-Free Experience
Displaying sponsored content is one way that Pocket can earn revenue and sustain itself while offering Pocket for free. By upgrading to Pocket Premium, you are helping Pocket’s efforts more directly, and therefore you won’t see any sponsored posts or ads in Pocket or Pocket Hits newsletters. We're grateful for your support!
Learn more about Sponsored Content in Pocket
Full-Text Search
Pocket Premium subscribers gain access to Pocket’s powerful and extensive search that helps you find your saved content any way you like across your entire Pocket account. You can search by article text, topics, tags, authors, and more, making it easy to quickly find anything in your list.
Additional features include:
- Recent Searches, so you can quickly return to a previous search
- Search for a single Tag, or multiple Tags at once
- Advanced search operators to help you craft and refine your search
- Search All Items (both My Saves and Archive) simultaneously
Learn more with our complete guide to Full-Text Search
Unlimited Highlighting
Highlighting while reading has enormous benefits. It helps you engage more deeply the text, comprehend dense subjects, and easily revisit to key passages in the future. While the free version limits users to 3 highlights per article, Premium removes this limit.
Permanent Library
While you’re subscribed to Pocket Premium, the articles and webpages you save will be automatically copied into your Permanent Library. Therefore, even if content you’ve saved changes or is deleted from the Web, you’ll still be able to access it in Pocket.
Learn how to utilize your Permanent Library
Suggested Tags
With Suggested Tags, you no longer need to type, remember, or search for tags you've recently used. You'll see your three most recently used Tags to quickly organize items in your account.
The more you use tags, the smarter and more personalized the suggestions will become.
Learn more about Suggested Tags
Customize Your Reading Experience
Users can fully customize their reading experience with adjustable text layout options, and 8 additional premium font options.
Learn more about customizing your reading experience and see the Premium font options.