Instapaper 6.1.1

Reviews

3 ★, on 2020-08-30
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.

2 ★, on 2020-08-29
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

3 ★, on 2020-06-27
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The text-to-voice option is robotic, (6) The Android app is not updated for more than a year, and (7) The UI is a bit outdated.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!

2 ★, on 2020-07-01
The first few webpages I saved to Istapaper didn't save the actual article portion I wanted to read. Only the links. Also you can only save 5 highlights/notes a month unless you pay £1.84 per month or £18.49 a year to open unlimited note saving?! Paying to save notes? I'm literally getting this to use with readwise (which you also have to pay monthly for) that free note limit is too stringent, I'm sorry. Work with that a bit and I will re install again. I only have so much money guys lol.

4 ★, on 2020-05-20
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.

3 ★, on 2020-04-21
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!!!