Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted. Instapaper for Android provides a mobile and tablet-optimized Text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. But the marquee feature of Read Later, as it was in its previous incarnation, is the fact that you can read both Instapaper and Read it Later articles in a clean, native Mac app with tagging. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Save to Instapaper. Instapaper Save is the official saving tool for Mac users. Just log into the Instapaper app on your Mac and then click the Instapaper browser button to add any web content to your Instapaper account. Instapaper allows you to save any web content into a clean, customizable format to ensure that you.
Instapaper is a fabulous application for the iPhone or iPod touch—truly first rate. As one who reads a lot online and off, I’ve quickly come to appreciate Instapaper as one of my favorite apps. It’s so easy to use, in fact, it’s tough to resist saving articles for later as just for excuse to whip out the phone and read something. Drives my wife and kids crazy.
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Instapaper is available in two versions. Instapaper Pro is $10, and Instapaper Free is, well, free. Both offer the same killer feature: the ability to download stories to the iPhone or iPod touch and read them anytime, anywhere, with or without a Wi-Fi connection or a cell phone signal.
Instapaper is among the easiest-to-use iPhone apps I’ve seen. First, sign up for an account at Instapaper’s Web site. This takes all of two minutes. Then you simply add a “Read Later” bookmarklet to your Web browser and click it anytime you want to read an article later. (Note: Take care to save the one-page or print screen view of the article you want to read; if you happen to save the first page of an article and you want to read it offline, you will only be able to read the page you saved.) Then when you launch the Instapaper app, simply tap the update button and the stories you saved will download on to the phone.
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The question, then, is what makes the $10 version of the app a good buy? Readability and convenience, mostly.
Instapaper Pro features a nifty tilt screen feature that lets you scroll text without touching the screen. If the tilt feature proves distracting, not too worry: You can turn it on and off with the touch of a button. Instapaper Pro will also mark your place so that if you need to click away, you will return to the exact spot in the text where you left off. The Pro version also displays customized fonts and text sizes, and gives you the option of black text on a plain white background or white text on black. You can also open articles in Safari.
Although every one of those exclusive features adds value to Instapaper Pro, their absence does not detract from Instapaper Free. The interface is still a snap to use on the free version. The stories remain highly legible.
Instapaper isn’t perfect, but then nothing ever is. Occasionally, a page will not translate to text and so cannot be read offline. But if you’re like me, you will have 26 other articles in your queue to read anyway. Otherwise, Instapaper is one of the more bug-free apps I’ve encountered.
I don’t want to sound too harsh about Instapaper Pro versus its free counterpart. I use and enjoy Instapaper Pro. And, to be fair, the developer encourages users to try the free version before making the investment plunking down 10 bucks.
Bottom line: It’s a question of value, and a judgment call. Instapaper Free is a very good, low-frills reader. Instapaper Pro is a first-class reader with gewgaws and gizmos of enormous convenience but debatable utility. Users will be happy, either way.
Instapaper is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.
[Ben Boychuk is a writer and columnist in Rialto, Calif.]
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Most Mac Gems are programs you run on your Mac, but some Web-based services are so useful that they warrant similar recognition. Today’s Gem, Instapaper, definitely falls into that category.
If you haven’t heard of Instapaper, developer Marco Ament calls it “a simple tool to save Web pages for reading later.” But that’s a serious underselling of the service. Yes, Instapaper can save a Web article for later reading, which is especially useful when you come across an interesting article that you don’t have time to read immediately, or that’s too long to read comfortably on your iPhone, or that you just want to keep around for reference. But the way Instapaper performs this task, and the options it provides for reading, managing, and sharing saved articles, make it indispensable for heavy Web surfers.
You set up Instapaper by going to the Instapaper Website and setting up an account; then you drag Instapaper’s special Read Later bookmark—actually a JavaScript bookmarklet—to your browser’s bookmarks bar; the developer recommends Safari, Firefox, or Chrome. (There are separate instructions for Mobile Safari, or you can simply sync your Safari bookmarks from your Mac to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.) From then on, whenever you want to save an article for later reading, you just click the Read Later bookmarklet; the article is saved to your Instapaper account.
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(As an aside, if you’ve been using Instapaper for a while, be sure to update your Read Later bookmark to the latest version; the bookmark’s JavaScript code is periodically updated, and the current version offers a number of improvements over older versions. For example, it even works within the Google Reader online RSS reader, correctly parsing the specific article you’ve selected and saving it to Instapaper.)
When you want to read your saved articles, point your browser at the Instapaper site; they’re all waiting patiently. You can click an article title to read the article on its original site, but where Instapaper really shines is in its own presentation of articles: Click the Text button next to an article and you can read the article reformatted for easier reading—sans ads, annoying Flash, and other distracting clutter. This sparse view is especially useful on devices with smaller screens—a laptop, a netbook, or one of Apple’smobiledevices. (Via your Instapaper settings, you can choose either of two text parsers; one strips all images but leaves more text; the other cuts extraneous text more aggressively, but includes some images.) Whispered words episode 1.
When you’re done reading an article, you can delete it, move it to a general Archive folder for later access, or file it into other folders you’ve created. You can also “star” your favorite articles: Other people can browse your starred items by adding them as a folder in their own account or subscribing to your starred-items RSS feed; you can similarly add or subscribe to other users’ starred items. This feature is a great way for you and your friends to share “I really liked this” articles with each other. (The main Instapaper Web page also lists Editor’s Picks and a few of the articles most-read by users.)
Extra features include a bookmarklet (similar to Readability) that immediately converts the current Web page to Instapaper’s text view for easier reading; a “Mobilizer,” designed for mobile-phone browsers, that lets you browse any Website in Instapaper’s text view; and an account-specific email address that lets you add any e-mail message—for example, a lengthy e-mail newsletter—to Instapaper by simply forwarding the message. You can also download your Instapaper archive in ePub format or convert it to a Web page optimized for printing, and you can even configure Instapaper to automatically send recently saved articles to your Kindle.
If you’ve got an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, the developer also provides outstanding apps—Instapaper Free and Instapaper Pro—that let you download and read your Instapaper-saved articles using an interface optimized specifically for each device’s screen. Instapaper Pro is one of the most-used apps on my iPhone and iPad.
Finally, the developer has created an API that lets other software developers include Instapaper support in their own software. For example, NetNewsWire for Mac, as well as many iPhone and iPad Twitter clients and RSS readers, include an option to send a link or Web page to Instapaper.
Because Instapaper gets the text of articles directly from their original Web pages, the service does have some limitations. Some Web pages that require a user account for access can’t be saved to Instapaper, and sites that block Web crawlers can interfere with Instapaper. Also, Instapaper grabs the specific page you’re viewing; for multi-page articles, that means only the current page is saved. If you want to save a multi-page Web article to Instapaper, look for a Print or Single Page button that displays the entire article on one page, then use your Read Later bookmarklet on that page.
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