Features
Discover Couch's features and learn how Couch compares to the original Pocket App from Mozilla.
Couch 4.0 | Pocket 8.23 | |
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Supported iOS/iPadOS version | 18 and newer Couch 3 supports iOS/iPadOS 17 | 17 and newer |
Supported macOS version | macOS Sequoia 15 and newer Couch 3 supports macOS Sonoma 14 | ━ iPad version runs on Apple Silicon Macs |
Interface | ||
Modern user interface | ✓ | ✓ |
Optimized UI for iPad | ✓ | ━ |
Multi-window support on iPad and Mac | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Light & dark mode support | ✓ | ✓ |
Customizable accent color | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Customizable app icons | ✓ Pro | ✓ |
Statistics | ✓ | ━ |
Customizable library appearance | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Organization | ||
Add links | ✓ | ✓ |
Manage your articles (favoriting, tagging, archiving, deleting) | ✓ | ✓ |
Manually organize your articles with lists | ━ | ━ Possible in the web app |
Automatically organize your articles with collections (smart lists) | ✓ | ━ |
Random recommendations from your reading list | ✓ | ━ |
Sorting library (newest/oldest first) | ✓ | ✓ |
Filter library (article, videos, tweets/toots, images) | ✓ | ━ |
Browse by tags | ✓ | ✓ |
Browse by authors | ✓ | ━ |
Browse by sites | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Reading history | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Customizable reminders | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Search | ||
Search in title and url | ✓ | ✓ |
Search in excerpt and tags | ✓ | ━ |
Search in full article text | ━ | ✓ Premium |
Search suggestions (tags, sites, authors) | ✓ | ━ |
Logical search (AND, OR) | ✓ | ━ |
Synchronisation | ||
Synchronizes via iCloud | ✓ | ━ |
Synchronizes Pocket library (inbox, archive, trash, favorites, tags) | ✓ | ✓ |
Synchronizes Couch collections | ✓ | ━ |
Synchronizes Pocket highlights | ━ | ✓ |
Synchronizes Couch reading history | ✓ | ━ |
Synchronizes in background | ━ Currently only iCloud items | ✓ |
Offline support | ✓ | ✓ |
Reader View | ||
Customization options (e.g. font, text size, light/dark mode) | ✓ | ✓ |
Multiple font options | ✓ Pro | ✓ Premium |
Sepia theme | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Text highlights support | ━ | ✓ |
Read aloud support | ✓ | ✓ |
Supports tweets (Twitter) | ━ Not anymore thanks to Elon | ━ |
Supports toots (Mastodon) | ✓ | ━ |
Supports videos (YouTube) | ✓ | ━ |
Image preview (zoom) | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Export articles (PDF, HTML, Plain Text, Markdown) | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Share Extension | ||
Share extension to save articles from other apps (e.g. Safari) | ✓ | ✓ |
Add tags in share extension | ✓ | ✓ |
Favorite in share extension | ✓ | ━ |
Archive in share extension | ✓ | ━ |
Widgets | ||
Read now (recently added) | ✓ | ✓ |
Read now (fully configurable) | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Random | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Statistic | ✓ Pro | ━ |
Recommendations (discover articles not in your list) | ━ | ✓ |
Shortcuts | ||
Add url | ✓ | ✓ |
Retrieve items | ✓ | ✓ |
Open view in app | ✓ | ━ |
Open (newest, random, searched) item in app | ✓ | ━ |
Social & Privacy | ||
No advertising | ✓ | ✓ Premium |
Others | ||
404 Error handling (loading from Internet Archive) | ✓ | ━ |
Permanent library (copy of website saved in the cloud) | ━ | ✓ Premium |
Control over cache | ✓ | ━ |
Price | ||
Free | Free | |
Pro One-time-purchase $8,99 (USA) | 9,99€ (EU) | Premium Subscription (monthly/yearly) $4,99/month (USA) | 4,99€/month (EU) |