Pocket for Mac is a new app, but it borrows heavily in terms of underlying concept and flow from Read Later. According to Pocket, the former Read Later app will continue to work for existing users, but it will no longer be supported. Michael Schneider, creator of Read Later (nèe Read Now), joined the Pocket team to create the new Mac app you may remember Read Later as a client for Instapaper/Pocket/Readability articles that we’ve been following here at MacStories since the first version.

I’ve been able to test Pocket for Mac during the past week. Pocket for OS X is available today for free on the Mac App Store.

Pocket, the “save for later” service that relaunched as a major revamp of Read It Later back in April, is launching today its first official desktop application for OS X.