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

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.

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 listen to an article, Instapaper doesn't save where you left off the next time you use the app. The playlist is also lost if you queued articles in a list for listening, so you have to create it from scratch again. It would also be helpful if an article were archived automatically when you are finished listening to it.

What’s new

* Fixed issue with articles re-saving repeatedly on some devices.
* Improved Logged-in Sites reliability on some websites.
* Other minor fixes and improvements.