- Free
- Category: News
- First released: August 21, 2008
- Versions: 13 archived
- Installable: 13 of 13
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Marco Arment
- com.marcoarment.instapaperpro
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueInstapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.
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.
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 and add notes to 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! - Sort your list of articles by popularity, date, and article length. - Folders for easy organization.
Instapaper also offers an optional Instapaper Premium subscription for $5.99/month or $59.99/year. With Instapaper Premium you receive:
- Full-text search for articles in your account - Unlimited highlights and notes. - Text-to-speech Playlist to seamlessly listen to multiple articles. - Unlimited use of the speed reading feature to help you get through articles up to 3x faster.
On sign up for Instapaper Premium, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase.
Terms of service: https://www.instapaper.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.instapaper.com/privacy
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 93 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2010 | 2.2 | — | 948 | $4.99 |
| January 1, 2011 | 2.3.2 | — | 3,228 | $4.99 |
| January 10, 2012 | — | — | 4,710 | $4.99 |
| August 12, 2012 | 4.2.4 | ★ 4.5 | 6,625 | $2.99 |
| January 7, 2013 | — | — | 6,820 | $3.99 |
| December 26, 2014 | 6.1 | ★ 4.0 | 7,595 | Free |
| January 10, 2015 | 6.1 | ★ 4.0 | 7,606 | Free |
| January 21, 2015 | 6.1 | ★ 4.0 | 7,593 | Free |
| February 7, 2015 | 6.1 | ★ 4.0 | 7,594 | Free |
| April 21, 2015 | 6.3 | ★ 4.0 | 7,660 | Free |
| August 15, 2015 | 6.4.1 | ★ 4.0 | 7,817 | Free |
| October 16, 2015 | 7.0 | ★ 4.0 | 7,865 | Free |
| January 31, 2019 | 7.7 | ★ 4.5 | 8,624 | Free |
| March 1, 2019 | 7.7.1 | ★ 4.5 | 8,631 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Love this app. Super clean. One request, please allow for proper saving of YouTube videos. Currently when saving YouTube vids, no title appears in the saved list, just “YouTube -“. Thank you!
I need a replacement for the Pocket read it later app. Although Instapaper seems to be the best alternative right now, it falls short of what I was used to. Instapaper is great for short web articles, but falls flat on longer multi-page articles. If I have to go through and download each page individually, there’s really no need for this app is there ?
Update: $60 a year is absurd! Told you so! OG review: I used to pay for Instapaper, then it was sold and went free, now it’s back to a pay service. In that transition I’ve lost hundreds of articles. Graduate research, personal project research, recipes, and long form articles… all gone. No notices given about exceeding data use, or a purge of articles before X date, just gone... Don’t trust this service with anything you value or might need to reference in the future. Lesson learned.
Saved web pages sit there eternally downloading and URLs never materialize to open. Useless.
Sometimes works to rip content from Apple News to Instapaper. Sometimes the same content provider works, and sometimes it does not. Worth a subscription: probably not if Instapaper can't improve the quality of its output.
Wouldn’t sync pdfs
The only reason on bought the app was so I could save articles and have the app read them to me while I am on the road. It is extremely choppy and you cannot even listen to it. I kept thinking it was a bug that they would fix. Nothing yet and it’s been about 2 months.
It’s fantastic at stripping the garbage out of articles, in my RSS feed, and in Google News, just giving me the content. From the app it’s easy to share content via email or text. I do pay for premium and am a longtime user. The only features that I find somewhat lacking are the AI summaries and the now lost ability to share articles automatically to sites like Bluesky or X.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.