Today launches the first attempt to profit-Pocket Premium

The later reading application pocket, which already has about 12 million registered users, finally launched its first attempt to make a profit today-pocket Premium, after providing users with two years of free service.

This premium service, priced at $5/month or 44.99 USD/year, provides three advanced features for users.

The permanent Library automatically copies the articles or Web pages that are saved by the user and saves them permanently. Before that, the Pocket just kept the link to the content, meaning that when the source changed, the user read the contents of the list would also be affected. The permanent Library turns the so-called "save it for later" into "Save it Forever".

Powerful search assists users in searching for any article or page in a reading list in terms of keywords, tags, or headings, as well as the recent Searches function of backtracking search records.

Suggested tags is to help users when adding articles automatically give the label recommendations. For example, when you save a food-related article, Pocket will automatically provide you with "food", "Recipes", "health" and other related labels.

As a pocket-heavy user, the permanent Library may be the main reason I pay for pocket Premium. In the last two or three months, I've had at least five links disappearing, so the permanent Save feature has some appeal, but I'm afraid there aren't many Pocket users looking back on articles a few months ago. The pocket experience is certainly excellent, so that more and more users are beginning to worry that a pocket without stable revenue and running for free will one day be in the way. Founder Nate Weiner to The verge that the increased pay option is the most user-referenced requirement of the past three years.

Now that the pocket Premium out, 5 dollars of nearly 30 yuan per month is expensive or not depending on the user's reliance on the pocket or loyalty, after all, the market offers similar features free choice is sufficient, and Pocket Premium The three functions offered do not give them an obvious competitive advantage.