Instapaper

In-app purchases
4.6
11.6K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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
Updated on
Aug 14, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
10.1K reviews
Sascha Z
August 9, 2025
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.
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Michael Hendricks
June 24, 2025
A very usable replacement for Pocket. When opening the app after a while, it often forgets that I prefer "Oldest saves first" or that I was reading a specific article, but once I find that article again, it remembers my location. Support for Android's "Share to …" is great. I look forward to the "Summarize This" feature from their website being added to Android.
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kai
June 10, 2025
Good replacement for Pocket. I wish there was an option to zoom in images and save them to phone. also it's a bit jarring that there's no "add URL" button, you always need to share it from other apps. I would like an option to not use the extra screen space in the camera notch for text.
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What’s new

* Updated translations in all 13 supported languages.

App support

About the developer
Instant Paper, Inc.
support@instapaper.com
1750 Vallejo St Apt 503 San Francisco, CA 94123 United States
+1 917-426-3605

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