Instapaper

Instapaper for Android hasn't been updated in over a year, which is a shame for an otherwise good service on desktop. The app sometimes does not display anything but a blank page when opening an article in the reading list. Often, even syncing seems to hang indefinitely. The text to speech feature is unusable as it incorrectly cuts words whenever there's an apostrophe or any other non-alphanumeric character. The search feature gives subpar results. Support is non-existent and doesn't reply

Hey Guys ! This App is just amazing, itis exactly what I was looking for and I can use it with my ereader onyx boox, perfect for a better reading experience.... But something went wrong, since I upgraded to the premium version, I can not export Meduim articles anymore (only the first sentenses ar showing up) ! ! ! ! Can you please fix that ? It was working perfectly before. What is happening ?

It would be great to be able to have subfolders, and tags! Tags are great to search inside your own archive, and be more organised. I don't know if the developers are still developing(!) the app. Mobile app needs to be calibrated, because when you read the appearing/disappearing top/bottom menu is acting by itself sometimes, and it's very disturbing when you read. Lastly, as a premium member, I would really like to see more typeface options! Current typefaces are really not enough. I couldn't find one that I feel comfortable.

My favorite feature of Instapaper is the highlight feature. It turns (nearly) every web page into my own personal book/paper that I can highlight, mark up and save for later. I can integrate it into other apps so my highlights are saved there, too. I used to use Pocket for all my read later articles, but it's missing this feature (at least, it's not as useful). The one thing I miss about Pocket is that it always saves the url I bookmarked. Sometimes instapaper loses the url. Frustrating.

It would be better than Pocket, it renders the article view better, not missing photos, etc. The only problem is that not all articles shared to the app are added to the list..

After so many years, we see an update in 2021 but still there's too much work to do for instapaper Devs. I have deleted my account with pocket but still using instapaper. It's simple, easy and not fancy but useful. Add option for cloud and local backup of saved webpages & links saved to read later. Add more fonts. Add TTS feature for travelling readers. And promote it by tying up with browsers to promote articles, blogs just like pocket. It's 2022, keep updating. Add life to this great product.

The reason I have given a 3 stars is that it has missing text problems. I have reported a few times as well. Other than that, it's life changing. The audio is good, the Dictionary feature is marvellous. And the themes are also great.

Been using this and pocket for years. Pocket has been getting better lately and instapaper worse. Long articles often get cut short, and insta seems worse than pocket at extracting inline images. Now they've crippled the sharing menu, removing any external app. I used this a lot to move articles that insta failed to parse over to pocket. Now you have to first open it in the browser again. Guess I'll save myself the trouble and just put everything in pocket

Very happy with the reading experience, but I second the request to add a scroll bar indicator to darkest dark mode, like the one in light mode. (Maybe the indicator's there but needs to be a lighter grey to be seen). Thank you! EDIT: Amazing. Thank you for the update!

This app is a great aid in making my work more productive. It has all the necessary features which are required to read an article. It also has some great palettes for customization as per individual interest. highly recommend this app for reading articles. Once you get used to it, there is no going back.

I've been using Instapaper for years and have generally had a good experience. I wish they supported Kobo readers, and I wish it were possible to share articles out via email, WhatsApp, etc. This feature appears to have been lost.

Tried to save an article. Said it couldn't save and asked if I wanted to open with a browser. That's the complete opposite of what this app is supposed to do.

So far I really like the premium version. It connects well to readwise and allows for unlited highlights and notes. More color options would be great when it comes to highlighting. Also the recognition of article titles is somewhat inacurate which leads to weirdly named entries in the reading list.

It's an attractive app, but I can't share the content to very many places, which is a pity. I have to go back to the originals and share them instead which is an extra step. Other than that and the fact that I can't read the full article titles because they don't wrap, I like it a lot.

Love this app. It's super useful and functional. Please improve/update the Android look and feel, because it feels outdated and quite slow right now. Premium plan price is way too high, so please consider lowering it or offering more functions.

The app is okay for the monthly price. Also I am not able to rename the folders on the app but can on the desktop? I just wish the app was more better designed and if it had more features like different highlight colours, or tags, title with pictures etc.

Good app with nice features. But no easy way to contact the devs and no customer service. I've been trying to upgrade to premium with no luck and no responses to help from Instapaper. That doesn't inspire trust in their service.

A very useful app, particularly if you would like to read news on Amazon kindle. Would like the syncing to be more smooth.

Amazing apps. We usually find something interesting to read but not at the perfect mood or time. With this app, just simple 2 taps we can read them at our leisure time.

I have used Instapaper for many years, and it never does anything but what I need it to do. Premium is worth it btw

The effortless transfer to Evernote is what sold me. Wish they had tagging and an AI audio reader capability like pocket, but that's okay, I'm all in on the IP.

There seems to be an issue when using the speak feature where it removes paragraphs and headings when it reads them aloud. I don't know if that's intentional, but I really hope not because I like to follow along in text when it's being read aloud. Aside from that, the app itself is very useful and I find it easy to read different articles I save with the clean design and other useful features.

So close to excellent; but the page scrolling to match text to speech has never really worked, and it loses my place in the current article when I close the app. It also won't handle pdfs well, and won't let me email text to my list. I'd love to be a premium subscriber, but the features are kind of ridiculously minimal and buggy, and have been for years with little improvement.

It's a great app and it works well for the most part. The archive and liked features are great. I wish unlimited highlights were free but oh well. The main problems come with the difficulty of organisation - a folder or tag system would be greatly appreciated. Also, a problem for me is that the search function doesn't work. Instead when I click on it, the app closes.

I'm a premium subscriber. I found some major flaws in Instapaper: (1) Search option is useless- it always shows very irrelevant and strange result, (2) Sometimes the highlights and notes are lost or vanished, (3) It doesn't capture all photos in an article, (4) Some articles are not fully captured, (5) The text-to-voice option is robotic, (6) The Android app is not updated for more than a year, and (7) The UI is a bit outdated. These are very frustrating!

I like it. Personally prefer it over Pocket. Even so, improvements would be welcome. A sub-folder feature per se, or the ability to take notes on videos. There's also some bugs. For example, when taking long notes on highlights, you can't scroll down while writing. You're forced to hop over to the web app which kind of beats the point of having a mobile version. Videos and pictures from the original source are usually not loaded. Et cetera. Conclusion, the app still needs a lot of work.

Instapaper is great and IMO it's better than other similar solutions. Simple, yet so elegant. Love the way Instapaper looks and feels. However the app itself needs some polishing. I've encountered an annoying bug and noticed some outdated looks. It doesn't work on devices with the notch properly. Also it desepeately needs a tagging system. Still, it's perfectly usable and once I get confortable enough I'd be willing to subscribe. AND it doesn't have ads!

Premium subscriber. Love the speed reading and TTS features — though sometimes they crush my phone's very-capable processors. The highlighting is oddly sorted chronologically, and not-at-all grouped at the global scope. Being able to share only my highlights is quite nice, however. The reading experience and navigations are odd on a notched phone with no hardware buttons. What happened to the development cycle? No updates for the past year.

Pros: save things to read later, ability to highlight, ability to take notes and export (why I installed it and paid for premium). Cons: limited viewing space in notes section (you can keep writing, but you can't scroll down and see it), notes not always saved (when save button on clicked), accidentally tapping outside the notes screen will cause the draft note to be lost. Overall: better than nothing, but if something with better note capability came along I'd switch.

I'm looking for Pocket alternative because it doesn't display images on many websites I follow. Instapaper does it, but it's inconsistent. Whenever I add a page through bookmarklet version for the first time, it displays image & video properly, but in mobile, it doesn't. Then, I come back to web version to see that same page and it becomes the same as mobile. Instapaper doesn't load image. Adding a page through "Share to" from another application doesn't work too. And it needs TAG system!!!