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Instapaper Overview

With the help of Instapaper, you can bookmark webpages to read later. It’s a terrific tool for cutting down on tab clutter and promoting more reading during the week. Additionally, it can act as a searchable database of content you’ve already read.

Instapaper was the first service of its sort, and compared to competing services like Mozilla Pocket, their content-extraction algorithm is much more effective. The distinguishing characteristic of a read-later service is the ability to correctly extract an item from a website (for personal use, of course).

Instapaper allows you to highlight text and takes notes so that you can have a better reading experience. Why is this important? Some people like to take things with them on their phones, but this doesn’t work well when they are reading long articles because of scrolling. 

Notes help with this issue by allowing users to stop and resume. You can also add notes anywhere on the article through your finger. Having these two features come in handy for some people that are looking for ways to read their articles more easily.

Main features

Save Anything 

Save any and all intriguing content you come across while surfing, including articles, movies, recipes, song lyrics, and more. You can store, read, and manage the content you find online with just one click thanks to Instapaper.

Read Anywhere

The articles and videos you store on Instapaper sync across all of your devices, whether they are an iPhone, iPad, Android device, or Kindle. Any saved content is accessible offline and at any time, anywhere.

Create Notes 

Find that memorable and inspiring quotation. To conveniently store, retrieve, quote, and share material from any article, Instapaper makes it simple to highlight and leave comments on it.

Instapaper Plans & Pricing in 2024

Available on: Free Trial, Subscription
  • Starting Price: $2.99per month

  • Pricing Module:
    $2.99per month

    $29.99per year

  • Trial Days: 14 days

Instapaper Reviews

4/5

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4

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4/10

Kasim Khan

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2/10

Not worth the money

Instapaper's features are limited and not worth the money. It lacks basic features like bookmarking and tagging which makes it hard to use.

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None

Cons

Limited features, not worth the money


Trevor

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5/10

Great App for Reading Articles

Instapaper is an amazing app that makes reading articles easier and more enjoyable. I love the ability to save articles and read them later when I have more time. The user interface is also very easy to use and navigate.

Pro

Easy to use, ability to save articles for later reading

Cons

None


Tara

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5/10

The Best Reading App

Instapaper is a great app for reading articles and saving them for later. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive features make it a great choice for readers.

Pro

Intuitive design, easy to use, great for saving articles for later

Cons

None


Kai

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5/10

User Friendly and Convenient

Instapaper is an easy to use and convenient app that helps me save articles for later reading. Its offline mode is a great feature!

Pro

Offline mode, Easy to use

Cons

None


Nina

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3/10

Not worth the time

I tried Instapaper to save articles for later reading, but it's not worth the time. The interface is clunky and slow, and it takes forever to navigate to the article you want. Plus, the app crashes frequently, so you have to start all over again. The saving feature is also unreliable, so you can't depend on it. I don't recommend Instapaper.

Pro

Cons

Clunky interface, slow navigation, frequent crashes, unreliable saving feature

Frequently Asked Questions

One of the most well-known read-it-later apps, Instapaper provides a variety of storage choices. The most widely used desktop browsers, including Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, all have extensions that allow users to save articles to Instapaper with a single click.  In addition, the app is available on iOS and Android, making it easy to save articles from a mobile device for later reading. Instapaper even has a web clipper that allows users to save articles directly to their account from almost any website.

Yes! No matter how quickly you read, Instapaper is a lightweight web and mobile app that enables you to quickly and effortlessly store any online article you don't have time to read right away for later offline reading. The software may be downloaded for free on iOS, Android, and web browsers. Instapaper excels at assisting you in getting through your ever-growing list of lengthy articles thanks to its basic characteristics, such as the elimination of website distractions. Users have been treated well over the years, but there are a few things you might have missed after numerous revisions.

It has a free version and a premium version starting from 2$.

Instapaper is rolling out a tonne of new features in the hopes of streamlining our reading both online and offline. Among the new features is the ability to organize articles into folders, a "read later" list for easy access to articles you want to come back to, and a new way to view articles in a distraction-free format. Instapaper is also working on integrating with third-party apps like Evernote and Pocket, so you can save articles from anywhere and have them all in one place.

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