Reading is a pastime that has only benefited from the expansion of smart devices like phones, tablets, and e-book readers. No longer chained to the confines of flimsy paperbacks and weighty hardcovers ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. I'm a big fan of recommending simple tools, ...

Want to save pages on the web for later? You could always bookmark them in your browser of choice, of course. But that’s a quick way to end up with a messy ...

In May 2025, Mozilla announced that it was shutting down the popular read-it-later app Pocket, which it had acquired back in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. While Pocket helped users save and discover ...

Google Play Books is one of the better apps that Android ships pre-installed with. For starters, it offers a decent eBook reading experience on both smartphones and tablets. It also offers a ...

It's not easy keeping up with everything that's written on the web, especially not if you've got a dozen open browser tabs vying for your attention. This is where read-it-later apps come in. These ...

It’s official: Mozilla has announced that its extremely handy read-it-later app Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, with user data exports available until October 8. If this leaves you looking for ...

Ask me what I'm reading at any given moment and I'll probably rattle off at least three titles, not to mention comics and the occasional textbook I may also be chipping away at in the background.

I’ve been using read-it-later apps since before I had an iPhone. For those of us who were Wi-Fi-only iPod touch users before owning iPhones, apps like Instapaper were great for reading on the go.

Reading more is one of those goals that sounds simple but falls apart fast. Here are the four apps keeping my reading habit alive in 2026.