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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy pocket is an application that lets you saved things to your device for later viewing in this review we're going to take a look at pocket version 5 which was just released by developers and includes a whole lot of new features and we're gonna check them out pocket has been out for a while now and most people already know what it does so we're just going to focus on the new features the biggest new improvement is a feature called highlights highlights is a function that will help you mow through your unread content and bring the stuff that may interest you the most to the top of the list this is actually extremely handy highlights will look at what you consume the most and use those stats to put items you may like the most toward the top its source them by long reads which are 1,500 words or more short reads which are 300 words or less the best items and items that are directly related to what you read about most often other improvements include a revamped interface that looks clean and helps you move around the app with more ease also included is the new bulk edit feature which lets you archive delete or retag multiple items at once so how can you use this well with pocket it's always been really easy to grab stuff on the internet and put it in your pocket for quick reference later with this mammoth update it allows you to engage in more of that content with less effort if you're one of the many that are really behind the new features will help you consume and organize your content in a way that will help you actually get through all of it so here's what we liked the new interface is clean and organized it's easy to move around the interface and getting into various categories this is a dramatic improvement from the old interface highlights is awesome it may take a minute to get your personal reading habits down but once it does it will organize your articles and videos for you so you can consume what you want when you want bulk edits help you clean up and organize things much faster this may not be so helpful to people who are always up to date but people who have hundreds of articles backed up which is about fifty percent of pocket users according to pocket will love this in terms of what we didn't like it was tough to do because there wasn't anything overly wrong with this application fans of the channel know that I don't get to say that very often that said there were a few very small things in the interface that were just a little bit off in the articles view you can't swipe between the my list and archive tabs on larger phones or tablets this means reaching up to tap the tabs manually also the fonts and dark mode could use a little bit of a touch-up the dark gray text and the archive in my list text are only a couple of shades darker than the theme itself and that makes it a little hard to read nitpicks aside the new pocket is everything you could possibly ask it to be the new interface makes it so much easier to move through the app and to get to the content that you want the highlights feature does a great job of sorting through all of your stuff to find the content that you wish to have right then and there there is virtually nothing wrong with this application and we really like that if you haven't yet we highly recommend you try the new pocket once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you liked this review check out some of our other ones you can find a written companion to this video in the video description along with our social media links thanks for watching and I'll see you next time