Turn a Pocket, Raindrop or Instapaper export into bookmarks

Updated 18 October 2026

Read-later apps export your saves as a CSV file, and browsers only import bookmark files. Drop the export in here and download a bookmarks file that Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari can import, with your folders kept.

Get your export

Pocket

Pocket shut down on July 8, 2025, and Mozilla closed its export page on November 12, 2025, when it began deleting accounts and saved items, so a new export is no longer possible. If you asked for one before then, Pocket emailed you a link to a CSV file of all your saves, archives and favorites. Find that file (unzip it first if the download is a .zip) and drop the .csv in above. When the file has Pocket’s status column, unread and archived saves go into separate Unread and Archive folders.

The export holds links, titles and dates: Mozilla’s help says it doesn’t include the text of the articles. If you have an older Pocket export that opens as a web page with Unread and Read Archive sections, drop that .html file in instead and the converter keeps both sections as folders.

Raindrop.io

• Your whole account: in the web app, go to Settings > Backups and click Create new. When the email arrives, download the files from the same page.
• One collection or a few bookmarks: open the collection (or tick the bookmarks you want), click Export and choose HTML, CSV or TXT.

Raindrop’s HTML export is already a standard bookmarks file, and Raindrop’s help says every browser can import it, so you can take it straight to your browser. The converter is for the CSV and TXT files, for clearing duplicates first, or for turning the export into Markdown notes or a Stackboard board. It keeps nested collections as folders inside folders. Exports run in the web app; on a phone, Raindrop’s help says to open app.raindrop.io in the browser.

Instapaper

1. Go to instapaper.com/settings/account.
2. Scroll to the Import section and click Export .CSV to email.
3. Download the CSV from the email Instapaper sends. Instapaper says it can take a few hours to arrive when you’ve saved a lot.

Each save keeps its Instapaper folder. Items Instapaper keeps private, such as emails you forwarded to your account, appear in the CSV with addresses that start with instapaper-private:// and only open inside Instapaper, so the converter leaves them out.

What comes across

Moving out of more than one app? Convert each export, then combine the files with our bookmark merger, which also drops links that appear in both. Saves from years ago often point at pages that no longer exist: drop the finished file into the dead link checker before you import it.

Import the file into Chrome

1. Open chrome://bookmarks (or press Ctrl+Shift+O, Cmd+Option+B on a Mac).
2. Click the three-dot menu at the top right of the Bookmark Manager and choose Import bookmarks.
3. Pick the .html file you downloaded. Chrome adds everything in a new folder, usually called Imported at the end of your bookmarks bar (look under Other bookmarks if it isn’t there), and your existing bookmarks stay as they are.

Edge, Brave, Firefox and Safari read the same file. Step-by-step versions: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox and Safari.

Or load it straight into Stackboard

Stackboard shows your bookmarks as a board on Chrome’s new tab page. Download the Stackboard backup (.json) above, then open a new tab and go to Settings, Backup, Import JSON. Each folder becomes a stack you can rename, drag and reopen as a tab group, and everything is saved as ordinary Chrome bookmarks.