Instapaper

Instant Paper, Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.

Instapaper for Android provides a mobile and tablet-optimized Text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Read offline, even on airplanes, subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.


CORE FEATURES:
- Saves most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for tablet and phone screens
- Distraction-free reading environment gets out of your way so you can focus on the content
- Everything you download is then available **OFFLINE**, so you can read whenever you want, even on airplanes, subways, or Wi-Fi-only devices away from internet connections

PLUS:
- Optimized tablet interface
- Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins
- Dark mode and brightness control for night reading
- Sort your list of unread items by popularity, date, article length, and shuffle
- Folders for organization
- Share via web browser and any app that supports sharing
- Rotation lock
- Download up to 500 articles on your phone or tablet, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website
- Folders for organization
- Dictionary and Wikipedia lookups
- Tilt scrolling, page-flipping
- Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app
- Search, via in-app purchase

Ratings and reviews

Not working well and the search function requires an expensive subscription, which quite frankly is ridiculous. I don't mind having freemium apps with paid features or ads, but searching for entries is a core functionality. Furthermore, synchronisation is laggy and title images often don't get loaded properly. I chose Instapaper only because it was suggested as a replacement for Pocket, but it falls short in many ways and is quite frustrating to use.

If you've come to love the now discontinued Pocket app, Instapaper is... okay, but not great. You can use it to save articles for reading them later, but that's about it. Often Instapaper needs very long to download and process an article, and often they're parsed badly (only half the article or only error message.) You can't even search for keywords in the free version. Navigation is also cumbersome: no quick swiping for archive/deleting; you need to open and scroll through the menu first. Etc.

I am a former reader from Pocket, a reading app similar to this one. I must say Pocket's overall appearance and experience was much better. I like Instapaper it's just that Pocket did it better. Pocket is defunct now so Instapaper it is. Hopefully, the appearance and user experience will only get better as we go. Once again, I'm hopeful. 🙂

What’s new

* Search Improvements: Improved feature so all articles open in reader mode, regardless of whether the article is synced. Additionally, we made title-only search of synced articles free for all users.
* You can now edit article titles and descriptions via long press an article > "..." > Edit
* Improved folder editing including support for public folders.
* Improved audio control widget for text-to-speech.
* Other fixes and improvements!