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Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.
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News Free Instant Paper, Inc. iPhone, iPad, iPod

Instapaper for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch provides a mobile-optimized text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Instapaper also enhances the standard reading experience with features like text-to-speech, which can be controlled via the Apple Watch.

Instapaper has been inducted into the iPhone and iPad Hall of Fame, received Macworld Editor's Choice Award, and has also been featured in publications including Wired, TIME, Daring Fireball, and The Verge, among others.

Core Features:
- Strip away all clutter and save the content of web pages into iOS-optimized formatting.
- Read anywhere! No internet, no problem: access your articles on airplanes, subways, elevators, or Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.
- Save to Instapaper from other iOS applications with one tap.

Additional Features:
- Control every aspect of your reading experience with a variety of font, color themes, and spacing options.
- Find that great quote you want to remember and share? Instapaper makes it easy to highlight text in any article.
- Have your Instapaper articles narrated to you with text-to-speech. Just turn up the volume on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and relax!
- Control text-to-speech right from your Apple Watch.
- Sort your list of articles by popularity, date, and article length.
- Folders for easy organization.
- Full-text search for articles in your account

Reviews

My reliable reading tool
Jesse the K

I’ve been reading almost everything in Instapaper for a decade. Offers enough typographic control that I can read comfortably. Responsive developers. Happy to pay for these features.


Excellent.....almost
sum1dum

The notes section needs an infinitely better organization system. It makes absolutely no sense right now to have every single highlight I make stored as a note. This app is how I effectively annotate everything I read and that note section is effectively unusable and not searchable and makes learning/highlighting useless for the most part. Fix this please!! Amazing 5/5 app otherwise honestly.


Would leave pocket, but instapaper Needs messages integration
Rik Bostin

Instapaper is a better app than pocket and I would love to use it, but without the app available for integration in iOS messages it’s about to be another year of pocket premium for me.


Scrolling freezes
ex-apple-user-1023

When I try to read an article scrolling constantly freezes I have to restart the app to get it to work for a few more minutes before it starts freezing again.


Rarely updated, space hog, not worth the price
mrlibretoyou

If this was free, or even a one time charge, I’d be much more forgiving of this app. If you’re going to charge people monthly the app should be getting better all the time. This loads slow, takes up tons of space, and I can’t think of one advanced feature that I use. This needs to get better.


Great App
K3ith_Ab

This is a really great app for saving articles and being able to read them in a very simple layout. I really like the newspaper-like reading experience that get rids of all the excess noise. It would’ve been a perfect app if at least we had unlimited highlighting in the free version verses the 5 free highlight we get a month. I do hope the app developers will see this and take that into consideration. In all a really great that I would recommend to every reader.


Loyal User
BridgesAcct

I have been a user of Instapaper since buying my first iPad, the very first iPad and I paid for the app. Now, they want me to pay more for premium and I just can’t do it. How disappointing to do your loyal customers this way. Not the best way to keep your loyal customers.


Search doesn’t work and support non-existent for premium users
capedape

I’ve sent maybe five emails (latest the one they mentioned on Twitter) to two Instapaper e-mail addresses trying to get support and haven’t received any reply for a week. I bought premium thinking you can search the archive, but you can’t. Simple one keyword phrases bring back zero or at the most one result on an archive numbering in the thousands. I’ve tried searching on various iOS devices and the laptop, same thing. All I expected was a simple reply like search isn’t working properly etc etc, but I’ve received no reply to numerous e-mails.


Missing Images After Sync from Chrome
UndertowMemories

The app always misses images in the articles synced from chrome Instapaper extension. Redownload doesn’t not help at all.


Great app
crystalrachel

Easy to use and love that it does away with the advertising. I save most longer articles to read here, as it is easier to get thru the important points when I’m not fighting so much clutter. I also like that I can separate by subject. And especially that I can later read offline. A rare app that I’ve had zero glitches with.


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