Pocket brings out of beta its story and video recommendation feature

All Pocket users on Android, iOS, and the web will now be seeing stories that matter to them with its new recommendations feature. Previously in beta, this feature will now actively send you links to curated stories from around the web. Some of them will be specialized based on the topics you’ve saved before. Pocket hopes this feature will bring you the stories that are of interest to you. "[W]ith Recommendations," the company says, "we want to use this insight to help you spend time with more high-quality content, no matter how noisy it gets."

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Pocket for iOS gets text-to-speech feature

I love Pocket’s text-to-speech feature on Android. It makes it especially easy to go through articles I’ve saved on the app while doing chores or while commuting. It took what seems like forever but now iOS users can take advantage of this feature as well. The “Listen” feature makes it easier for you to skip between paragraphs, adjust reading speed to suit your preference, and has automatic language detection (which is also said to support “all languages”. You can access the feature through the three-dotted button. The iOS app also gets the usual bug fixes and performance improvements.

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Pocket updates Android app, adds storage control and other new features

Pocket released a significant update for its Android app recently to add new features such as the ability to set offline storage limit, improved Evernote integration, and a new quick delete mode. Pocket will now let you set offline storage limit to make sure the app doesn’t eat up as much space on your device. Format for Evernote has also been cleaned up so the articles sent to Evernote will look like the Article View on Pocket. You can also now just delete articles with a swipe. But if you accidentally swipe an article you didn’t mean to, Pocket also introduced a new undo button.

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Pocket unveils prototype app for Android Wear

Pocket hopes to allow users to act on notifications that appear on smartwatches with its prototype app for Android Wear. The concept app works by letting users save articles and videos that have been sent to you by friends. You won’t be able to read the app directly on the watch though.

Source: Pocket