Instapaper
A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.
Total ratings
4.58
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Easy to use and has a clean interface.
- Highlighting and note-taking features are appreciated.
- Allows saving articles for offline viewing.
- Integration with desktop plugins is beneficial for personal organization.
Cons
- Issues with the 'Speak' feature, including starting from the wrong point.
- Limited functionality and customization, such as lack of folders for organization.
- Inconsistencies in downloading articles, leading to frustrations.
- Support and responsiveness seem lacking.
Most mentioned
- Highlight and note-taking feature.
- Problems with the 'Speak' feature.
- Desire for more customization options (like folders).
- Issues with app performance and downloading articles.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-27 |  | | Was good to start with. They've limited its functionality now so much that it is useless. Pocket is much much better. |
| 2024-11-19 |  | | Nice redesign! Long time user, hope it stays afloat. Implement subscription cost parity. The top app in the category offers a year @ ₹550 plus archival etc. |
| 2024-11-06 |  | | Has been good and helpful in the past, but something broke: it is now impossible to start "Speak" reading aloud where I want. I scroll to the point in the article where I want to listen but the reader stubbornly starts at the beginning again and again, or at some random point it chose previously. Please fix this! |
| 2024-11-06 |  | | Easy to use. Articles get saved both to app site for offline viewing (only as long as you don't logout in which case they are deleted) and to your account on its website. So far, spacing between paragraphs (stanzas) in only one of my saved articles was ignored. Vocalized reading of some apostraphe'd words failed to read correctly even though most other such words in same article were read correctly. Customizing features. Articles in weekly newsletter reflect political bias. |
| 2024-10-30 |  | | I've been having a very difficult time finding a reader app that saves pictures as well as text and this one finally does it without a pay wall or any difficulty. |
| 2024-10-28 |  | | The app has a clean interface with highly efficient features but it could become the best app if there was an option to save articles into folders. |
| 2024-04-07 |  | | Very cool app, but after a week or so, it stopped working on my eReader (Onyx Boox NovaAir2) and now I just see a " the instapaper service returned an unexpected results. Please try again in a few minutes, and ensure that your internet connection is active and not being filtered or redirected" message every time I try to sign in. Tried everything. Very disappointing. Please help and I'll fix rating |
| 2023-09-09 |  | | This app is such a great idea but it absolutely ruins its best features. Speed Read and Speak allow you to quickly get through documents but it is impossible to make them start from a specific place in the text. This makes them basically useless if you need to interrupt them and come back to reading later. Why would you implement such great features and then make them essentially useless? |
| 2023-07-07 |  | | Love this app. I'm able to add anything I'd like to read via the app or my desktop plugin, and then refer to it later. this ability has greatly improved my personal organization and productivity. I'd recommend getting Instapaper across all of your devices; this way, you'll always have your reading materials handy. |
| 2023-03-13 |  | | Edit March 13th, 2023: No updates in almost a year. Still one of the best read-it-later apps out there, but without updates the app could soon lag behind. I've used many read-it-later apps and I keep coming back to Instapaper. More fonts, pdf support, and more speed options in the speak feature would grant a 5 star. |
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