TechCrunch reports that Laytr, a new app from Ontario-area indie developer Mostafa Talaat and published under Waitery Inc., enters the save-for-later market after Mozilla shut down Pocket in August. Unlike typical read-it-later tools, Laytr is designed to store anything from the web—articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs, bookmarks, and tabs—and automatically sort them into collections called "cases."
Talaat told TechCrunch he built the app after hearing about Pocket's shutdown and chose a serverless design for privacy reasons. "What you save says a lot about you, and I didn't want to be holding it," he said. Everything saved remains in a private archive on the user's device, synced across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud, with no account required. The app can also remind users about a saved item on a chosen date and imports old Pocket exports.
Laytr's privacy stance comes with tradeoffs: it won't personalize feeds or use AI to summarize or auto-tag items. The free tier is capped at 30 saved items; Premium costs $1.99 monthly, $14.99 yearly, or a one-time $39.99 lifetime purchase, currently discounted to $24.99 through the end of December. Subscribers who lapse keep their saves but can't add more until they're back under the free limit or resubscribe. Users can export their entire archive as a ZIP with readable Markdown and HTML files.