When Mozilla shut Pocket down in 2025, 10 million people got displaced. Most landed on Instapaper or Raindrop — fine read-later layers, no reading engine. Readit Fast streams your saved articles at the speed you can actually sustain, with AI quizzes that prove you got it.
You built up a library in Pocket — sometimes thousands of articles. Then the export window closed November 2025 and you got a CSV. Now what? Most read-later replacements just rebuild the same hoarding pattern with a different logo.
The honest math: you save 20 articles a week, finish 3, and feel guilty about the other 17. Stacking them in a new app doesn't change the math. The bottleneck isn't where they're saved — it's how long they take to read.
Most read-later users default to skimming under time pressure. Skimming preserves what the article was about, but loses the reasoning, evidence, and nuance — exactly the things you saved the article for in the first place.
Paste a URL or use the Chrome extension. Readit Fast extracts the body, strips the cookie banners and nav, and streams the words at 200–1,500 WPM. A 30-minute article becomes a 6–10 minute read at typical Pro speeds.
Every article ends with a 3-question comprehension quiz. Below 70%, the system tells you. No more 'I think I read that one' — you have a score.
A Stratechery essay reads differently than a NYT Magazine longform. Readit Fast slows down for hard sentences and speeds up through easier ones. You set the target; the engine handles the variance.
When reading drops from 30 minutes to 8, the math changes. The articles you've been guilt-stacking for two months become a one-evening clear-out. The list isn't infinite if the read is fast enough.
Readit Fast doesn't try to be your read-later library — it's a reader. Keep saving with whatever you migrated to (Instapaper, Raindrop, Matter) and use Readit Fast to actually read what's there.
Read-later only works if the read part actually happens. Pocket's failure wasn't its UI — it was that the average user finished maybe 15% of what they saved. Readit Fast makes the reading itself fast enough that finishing your queue stops feeling like a second job.
The Pocket shutdown surfaced something most users never wanted to admit: the read-later app wasn't the problem, the unread-articles pile was. Here's how Readit Fast attacks the actual bottleneck.
Mozilla announced the shutdown in May 2025. The app went read-only July 8, 2025. The export window closed November 12, 2025. The 'Pocket Hits' newsletter was rebranded as 'Ten Tabs' on Firefox. If you migrated to Instapaper or Raindrop, you've got your articles back — but the reading rate hasn't changed.
Both are excellent at saving and syncing. Neither speeds up reading. So the queue grows at the same rate it always did, and the finish rate stays around 15-20%. Your guilt scales linearly with your library.
A 3,000-word article takes 12-15 minutes at 200 WPM (average reading speed). At 400 WPM it takes 7-8 minutes. At 600 WPM it takes 5. The article that was 'I'll get to it on the weekend' becomes 'I'll knock that out before lunch.' The queue stops being a project.
Speed without comprehension is just scrolling fast. Readit Fast generates a 3-question quiz at the end of every article — an actual recall test, not a self-rating. Score below 70% and you go back. Score 90%+ and you've earned the speed. The honesty is built in.
Keep saving however you save now. Readit Fast is the reader, not another library. Open an article from Instapaper, Raindrop, Matter, or just any URL — Readit Fast strips the chrome and starts streaming. The read-later → reader handoff is a single click.
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Native import is on the roadmap. For now, your Pocket export CSV works in any of the read-later replacements (Instapaper, Raindrop, Matter), and Readit Fast reads articles from any of them via URL paste or the Chrome extension. The reading layer doesn't care where you saved the article — it just needs the link.
Perfect — keep using them. Readit Fast is complementary. Your read-later app is your library; Readit Fast is the speed-reader you use to actually finish the items in it. One-click flow from any URL.
If you have a 200-article queue, that's roughly 100 hours at average reading speed (200 WPM). At 500 WPM with Pro, that drops to 40 hours. Most users clear a multi-month backlog in 2-3 weekend sessions once they hit a comfortable speed.
These are where speed reading earns the most. A 6,000-word essay drops from 30 minutes to 8 minutes at 750 WPM. Adaptive pacing automatically slows down for the harder paragraphs, so you don't have to fight the reader for hard sentences.
200 WPM is free forever with no signup — full RSVP engine, heuristic comprehension quizzes, 10-article queue. Sign in with email (still free) for 350 WPM and 25 articles. Pro is $2.99/week and unlocks the 1,500 WPM ceiling, semantic chunking, AI comprehension quizzes, adaptive pacing, OpenDyslexic plus five other fonts, and unlimited queue.
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