Announcements
Rakuten Kobo Integration is Live!
We’re excited to share that Instapaper is now live on all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. Now you can log into Instapaper on your Kobo, download your list of articles, and read...
Product updates, company announcements, and posts from the team building your favorite save-for-later app.
Today, we’re excited to launch AI Voices, which are high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We’ve completely redesigned the text-to-speech player to make it more modern and intuitive. Lastly, we’re launching a major Android update with an improved search experience and a...
We’re excited to share that Instapaper is now live on all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. Now you can log into Instapaper on your Kobo, download your list of articles, and read...
We’re excited to (finally) launch PDF support for Instapaper! Our focus for PDFs is to make them more readable, especially on mobile devices, and bring the suite of Instapaper tools...
We’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The integration will provide Kobo readers with a seamless way to save and read...
Today, we’re launching a few updates to Instapaper including a public beta for PDFs, text-to-speech fixes on iOS, and support for Logged-In Sites on Android. PDF Beta For years, we’ve...
Today, we’re launching Instapaper 9.1 for iOS and macOS, which includes support for Logged-In Sites, Paywall Detection, Settings Redesign, and more. Logged-In Sites On Instapaper iOS and macOS, you can...
Happy new year! Today we’re excited to launch Instapaper Android 6.1, which includes View Notes to make it easy to view an article’s notes in one place, multiselect tagging for...
We’re excited to announce that Tags are now live on all platforms—iOS, macOS, Android, Web, and Browser Extensions! Tags offer more flexibility than folders when it comes to organizing your articles. With...
Today we’re launching updates to our extensions for Chrome (including Arc/Edge), Firefox, and Safari. These updates bring support for highlights on the open web, archiving articles after saving, and Send...
Today we’re launching Instapaper 8.6 for iOS and macOS, which includes Summaries to quickly get a snapshot of an article, Custom Article Actions to customize the toolbar in the article...
Today we’re launching Instapaper Android 5.0, which completely redesigns the article list view, improves reader settings, reintroduces Send to Kindle, and fixes a number of longstanding issues and bugs with...
Today, we’re launching Permanent Archive, an Instapaper Premium feature that ensures you will always have access to the content you save. That means articles you read, highlight, and create notes...
Today, we’re launching our biggest updates to Notes since first introducing it on Instapaper. New features include Note Search, Article Notes View, an integration with Notion, and more! Note Search...
We just launched updates to improve Instapaper’s organizing and sorting tools for iOS, macOS, and web. Features include drag & drop to reorder, sorting improvements, modern swipe actions, better integrations...
Today, we launched Instapaper iOS 8.3 on the App Store. This release features a new CarPlay app for playing articles, a number of text-to-speech improvements including access to more voices,...
Instapaper iOS 8.2 is now available on the App Store. This release includes in-article search, text justification, and several design updates that make it faster and easier to access some...
Today we’re launching public folders to make it really easy to share a list of articles. On the iOS app or instapaper.com, you can create a public folder or edit...
Being able to save tweet threads has been a top feature request this year, and we’re excited to be introducing full support for tweets–and tweet threads–on Instapaper. We’ve also rebuilt...
We are excited to announce that we are once again opening up sponsorship slots on the Instapaper Weekly email. About Instapaper Weekly Instapaper Weekly is an algorithmically-generated newsletter that goes...
We’re excited to announce that Instapaper is now available on macOS! You can download Instapaper from the App Store on your Mac to read all your articles offline, in full...
Today we updated the Instapaper Save macOS app to include more features including inline saving on Twitter, keyboard shortcut to save (Ctrl + S), and support for pasting credentials from...
We’re excited to announce the return of the Instapaper Weekly, a Sunday morning email with the most popular Instapaper articles from the previous week. The articles are chosen based on...
Today we’re launching Instapaper Save for Safari on Mac. You can download it now from the Mac App Store. Once you’ve downloaded the app, you can set up the Safari...
Today we launched Instapaper 7.8 for iOS 13. In the new version, dark mode will automatically turn on when you enable dark mode at the system level through iOS Settings...
Instapaper 7.7 is now live in the iOS App Store with support for iPad Pro, Smart Keyboard shortcuts, and a True Black theme for iPhone X devices. For Smart Keyboards,...
This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we’ve been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond. To...
Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve...
On January 28, 2008, Marco Arment announced a new side project called Instapaper. Ten years and billions of articles later, we’re thrilled to be helping our readers learn, research and...
Today we’re launching our iOS 11-tailored update with drag and drop support for iPad and iPad Pro as well as performance improvements for Instapaper across all iOS devices. Drop to...
After suffering from an extended outage on Wednesday, February 9 at 12:30PM PT through Thursday, February 10 at 7:30PM PT, we brought the Instapaper service back up with limited access...
As we shared earlier today, Instapaper is experiencing an extended outage. After 31 hours of downtime, we were able to rebuild a database instance to get Instapaper back online! In...
Yesterday, February 8th, at 12:30PM PT Instapaper suffered from an outage that has extended through this morning. After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it...
Today we’re launching an official Instapaper extension for Firefox! We’ve been getting a lot of requests from Firefox users to build an extension to match the ones we offer for...
Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper...
Earlier this year, we rebuilt our search backend as a first step in making search on Instapaper faster and easier to scale. Today, we’re launching a completely overhauled search experience...
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and...
For a while now, some of the most consistent feature requests we’ve gotten from users have involved improvements to Instapaper’s full-text search engine. For months now, the existing search infrastructure...
_ Update 8/29/2016 : Since Instapaper is now a Pinterest product we no longer offer sponsorships for Instapaper Weekly. Thanks to all of our previous sponsors!_ We’re excited to announce...
Today, we’re very excited to announce the launch of the Instaparser API. Instaparser is a new API that gives developers access to the same parsing tools we use for the Instapaper service....
2015 was a big year for Instapaper and in addition to all of our updates and feature developments, we were also quietly working on rewriting Instapaper’s website parser with a...
Instapaper 7.1 is now live on the App Store! With this release, we’re happy to announce 3D touch support for iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, alongside a bunch of improvements...
As of today, we are deprecating the Instapaper Mobilizer service and will no longer operate Instapaper Mobilizer after December 1st, 2015. Instapaper Mobilizer has been a popular way for individuals...
In June, when we introduced Notes for web and iOS, we promised that our Android app would follow suit shortly. Today is that day, and we’re very happy to be...
Today, we’re launching a brand new Instapaper experience tailored specifically for iOS 9. In addition to implementing a lot of great iOS 9 features, we’ve thrown in some core enhancements,...
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of InstaRank v2, an update to our InstaRank algorithm, which identifies popular, high-quality content across Instapaper. In this update, InstaRank will retain its...
As of today, we’ve replaced our former email-based Evernote integration in favor of using the Evernote API. We decided to move over to the API because, starting July 6th, Evernote’s...
Today, we’re opening Instapaper’s Full API for all users rather than just Premium subscribers, which has traditionally been the case. In 2011, when Instapaper’s full API was introduced, Marco “made...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/129800846?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 When we launched highlights in May 2014, the response was overwhelmingly positive. In the following year, we’ve had over 55 thousand users create over 1.1 million highlights! From the...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/125853815 Today we’re introducing a whole new way to get through your articles with Instapaper for the Apple Watch. The Watch app allows you to navigate to any saved article and...
Instapaper 6.2 just hit the App Store! Our focuses for this release were speed and efficiency, which are evident in three new features: Speed Reading Instant Sync Faster Saving Speed...
In the year and a half since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve worked really hard to upgrade Instapaper’s user interface to a more modern look. From the website...
We just launched Instapaper 6 for iOS and Instapaper 4 for Android. It’s a huge update several months in the making, and we’re extremely proud of the result. iOS 8...
Today, we launched a brand new Instapaper Channel on IFTTT with new triggers and an enhanced Save Item action. Now you can set up Recipes that run every time you...
We’re excited to share that Instapaper now integrates with Zapier, an app automation platform connecting over 300 apps. This means you now have even more options when saving articles to...
For the past few months we’ve been working hard on a feature a whole lot of you requested: highlights. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve shipped text highlighting across...
So a funny thing happened on the way to this blog post. Last week, Instapaper enabled SSL by default. Great news, no? We pushed the change to production, drafted our...
Instapaper iOS 5.1.5 launched today! The update contains several new features that have been high on users’ wish lists: Instapaper Daily is now integrated into the “Browse” section. Instapaper Daily...
Safari users: Saving to Instapaper just got a whole lot better. Last December we rolled out a big update to Instapaper’s Chrome extension, and today we’re happy to announce we’ve...
Just before the holiday we quietly rolled out Instapaper Daily: a website that shows you the most popular article on Instapaper for any given day. Following the launch we added...
At Instapaper, we’re really into sorting the real-time stream of great reading content that flows through our servers. Today, we’re proud to announce our newest experiment - the Instapaper Daily,...
Instapaper is feeling a surge of holiday spirit this year. From December 12th through the 19th, Instapaper for iOS will be free to download as part of Apple’s App of The Week...
The easiest, most useful way to get an article into Instapaper is using a browser extension. If you use the Chrome browser, for example, you can install the Instapaper browser...
We updated the Instapaper Android app today, focusing on a range of design and performance improvements, new functions, and usability enhancements for Android tablet users. These upgrades were introduced for...
Over the past few months we’ve been steadily upgrading Instapaper, starting with the backend & web app, and then the rollout of the new iPhone and Android apps. The iPad app quickly...
Don’t look now (actually, look now!), but there’s an all-new Instapaper for Android app update in Google Play Store. Like our iOS app, this new version has an updated look and...
I spent the weekend building a chrome extension that lets you Save to Instapaper directly on your favorite sites. Now when you go to Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, and the Digg...
We just published an update to the Instapaper iOS app to include background updates! The team has been using it for about a week, and it’s pretty magical… No more...
One of our ambitions since taking on Instapaper has been to build useful ways to make the reading experience more productive. To us, that means making it easy to find...
And voila! As of a few minutes ago, there’s an all-new Instapaper in the App Store. Instapaper 5.0 has a updated look and feel, new features for sorting, filtering, and...
“Well-written content is out there, and we do have opportunities every day to read it – just not when we’re in information-skimming, speed-overload mode.” Marco Arment, in the old Instapaper...
Hi, this is Grant. I’ve been working on the Instapaper website redesign. An overview of our thoughts behind the new design is coming, but in the meantime I’d love to...
When the betaworks team sat down with Instapaper’s creator, Marco Arment, back in April to get a download of his ideas and to-dos for improving Instapaper, the first thing on...
As we put the finishing touches on Instapaper’s new website, we thought we’d let you know it’s starting to come together. You wanted us to refresh the website design for...
After a few weeks of intensive engineering and prep, we’re now ready to move Instapaper onto a new, vastly improved back-end infrastructure. We’re starting the cut-over shortly after midnight US...
So it’s time. It’s been a few weeks since betaworks took responsibility for Instapaper. With Marco’s cheerful, tireless help, we’ve dug into the infrastructure, explored its nooks and crannies, and...
Instapaper acquired by Betaworks Big (and very good) news!
Stacks: Instapaper app for Windows 8 Great update to Stacks for Instapaper, now a fantastic native Instapaper app for Windows 8.
This minor update contains more iOS 6 bugfixes, including email composing and the Search sheet on iPad. The 4.2.5 update’s dyslexia-optimized font addition prompted an influx of positive feedback, and...
Instapaper 4.2.5 was just approved with support for the iPhone 5, iOS 6 compatibility improvements, and bugfixes. Many people use Instapaper for improved accessibility, especially customers with low or no...
Last week, 9to5mac published this article in which the author intentionally derided me and Instapaper, called it “Instascraper”, and initially accused Instapaper of being responsible for the now-debunked “FBI” UDID...
Instapaper is now available for Android devices, including the Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, and Nook Color! I partnered with my friends at Mobelux, a great development shop, to create and...
Now, with Background Update Locations, Instapaper can automatically download new articles whenever you enter or leave locations such as your home or workplace. Visit the Settings panel to set it...
This is a significant update with many fixes and new features, including a new iBooks-Style Pagination option: New iBooks-Style Pagination option. The old animation is available in Fast Pagination mode....
The Instapaper “Read Later” bookmarklet is now redesigned as a faster, more compatible full-page overlay that’s easier to see. The previous little “Saved!” frame had a great run, but its...
Instapaper on the Kindle David Smith walks through Instapaper’s new Kindle features: Getting an $80 Kindle 4 and pairing it with an Instapaper Subscription will revolutionize your reading of web...
Worth It? Saving Websites to Read Offline Great video review and article from the WSJ. Thanks!
Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone released This is a huge update. See what’s new.
I’ve had a chance to correspond with DigitalOne over the last few days to clarify what happened with the server raid last week in which the FBI (seemingly accidentally) took...
About 40 minutes ago, at 11:45 PM EST on June 23, the server that I believe the FBI took during the DigitalOne raid came back online for the first time....
UPDATE: The server has been returned. Please read. One of Instapaper’s five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early...
A lot of people have asked these questions on Twitter or via email since the WWDC keynote last week, so I’ve consolidated my answers here: Will Safari’s Reading List feature...
This is mostly a bugfix update: Fixed bugs with pagination, tilt-scrolling, AirPrint, and other minor issues. Consolidated search bar to always search all titles and content. Added support for more...
tl;dr version: New dictionary, zoomable images, lots of bugfixes. Get it. New dictionary Did you know that Instapaper has a built-in, offline English dictionary? (It takes up most of the...
Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I’ve updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is...
The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started. I’ve made an unusual decision for it that I’d like to explain. I...
Send your Instapaper reading log to Readability Readability just launched a great new service: you pay a small monthly fee, and most of it is split up and given to...
Instapaper named “Best Publication App” by Best App Ever Awards Instapaper won a Best App Ever award for the second year in a row! (Last year’s.) Winner, Best Publication App...
WSJ: How to Have a Paperless Office Great Instapaper blurb in this print-edition article of todays’ Wall Street Journal. Thanks!
Slate’s iPad app now supports Instapaper Thanks, Slate! (The app is slick, and I love Slate. Check it out.)
Since its inception, Instapaper has had a famously simple, one-field registration form: The username can be anything, and there’s no password. You can always set a password in the Account...
The New York Times: Feel Free to Read This Later, on Your Phone Instapaper was featured in today’s print edition of The New York Times in this Sunday Business article....
10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad More Instapaper love from the New York Times. Thanks!
Instapaper awarded Macworld’s Editors’ Choice Instapaper has made Macworld’s 26th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards, a very short list (especially if you don’t count products from Apple) and a very high...
New York Times: Best Media Apps for the iPad David Carr includes Instapaper in his four best media apps for the iPad: The $4.99 you fork over for the paid...
Give Me Something To Read Best of 2010 This was my first full year at the helm of Give Me Something To Read, and to mark it, I’ve compiled this...
The 2.3.1 update for iPhone and iPad is now available. It’s mostly a bugfix and minor-enhancement release – for the major new features in the 2.3 series, see the Instapaper...
This is a major update with many improvements and fixes. The first change you’ll notice is the new layout of the list screen: Both the iPhone and iPad now include...
</source> (Direct .m4v video link, much higher quality, 31 MB) This is incredible. The latest video in Apple’s official iPhone Quick Tips Podcast, entitled “Offline Reading”, features Instapaper. It’s also...
NYTimes: Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Apps You won’t see Twitter, Slacker or Facebook, among others, on this list. Although I find them indispensable, the services aren’t unique to a mobile...
Salon: 20 essential apps picked by people we trust To help you find the best apps, we’ve asked some of our favorite tech-savvy people – writers, technology experts, actors, musicians,...
Apple published a special App Store Essentials section this week: the Hall of Fame. I’m honored that Instapaper’s included. View it in iTunes. Thanks, Apple!
Use Safari Reader to Send Multi-Page Articles to Instapaper (Thanks for the link, Shawn Blanc.) This is a great workaround for multi-page articles until I build support for them into...
PCMag reviewed Instapaper I’d quote a representative sentence from it like usual, but their Director of Licensing’s (likely automated) email after publication scared me away from doing so: … We...
Wired’s Gadget Lab interview with me By Tim Carmody, and featuring my new theory of food-like information disorders.
Instapaper inducted into 148Apps’ new App Hall of Fame Not only is being inducted to such a site a great honor, but Instapaper was chosen to be one of the...
I’m beta-testing Subscriptions. I’d love to have your support if you’re so inclined. And if not, or if you’d rather wait to see what Subscribers will get in the future,...
Flipboard Tip: Now you can “Read Later” Flipboard supports sending links to Instapaper. Just enable it in the Settings app, Flipboard, Experimental. They’ve actually supported this since the first release,...
New York Times Bits Blog: Instapaper Goes From Hobby to Startup This happened. Related articles: Business Insider VentureBeat TechCrunch The Next Web Yes, Instapaper is now my full-time job.
To keep update speeds fast and to avoid using too much space on your iPhone or iPad, the Instapaper app downloads only the most recent 250 articles. (The new 2.2.6...
Instapaper and Instapaper Free have just been updated to version 2.2.6 in the App Store with lots of new features and improvements. Both apps gained two major features: A prompt...
The new Kindle model (“Kindle 3”) has a number of changes and new capabilities, and I’m planning first-class support for it just like I implemented for the Kindle 2 and...
How Technology Is Renewing Attention to Long-form Journalism When we’re constantly inundated with information via e-mail, text messages, push alerts, tweets and Facebook updates, it’s hard to make time for...
Barron’s: Seven Great Apps By Jay Palmer: Instapaper: You can save a few trees, and a lot of time at the printer, by firing up this app. It lets you...
MediaPost: The 100 Most Important Online Publishers #24 Instapaper In the spirit of Time magazine’s infamous “You” person of the year cover, we are going to go out on a...
Instapaper. Reinventing long-form reading… Great article By Milind Alvares at Smoking Apples. When I was reading the exact same article he was in the third photo, I passed “aluminosilicate” and...
Note: 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 were only a week apart, so I’ve combined their notes into this post. First, I’ve renamed “Instapaper Pro” to simply “Instapaper” for a few reasons: It’s...
I get questions almost every day from publishers asking how they can improve the way Instapaper parses their sites. And I get almost as many emails from web programmers among...
Instapaper Beyond for Safari This is pretty incredible. Fair warning: I am, of course, working on an official Instapaper extension for Safari 5. But it’s likely to focus on a...
Text view on website, Mobilizer, Text Bookmarklet: Added font controls. You can now change the font, font size, line height, and margin (margin not available on iPhone due to impracticality)....
Changes: iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch: Added left/right pagination tap zones Fonts now scale after rotation Improved pagination scroll indicator’s accuracy iPad: Redesigned reading screen with controls moved to the...
Slate: Linsky and Lammer Love Long-Form Two writers curate a Web site devoted to feature-length journalism. Slate profiles the creators (and creation) of Longform.org, a great site to contribute content...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/11075261?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&app_id=122963 Put This On: Put This On, Episode 2: Shoes iTunes / Vimeo / YouTube Clothing Credits Funding Credits Related Posts This is the debut of Instapaper’s first ad! (At...
Updates from this weekend: Moved the site to a new, high-end server. It’s now much faster. Improved the Unread page to be even faster, and clarified the existence of direct-to-folder...
Reshaping the Night With Instapaper for iPad Creatively written review.
Send to Instapaper for BlackBerry (SMALL PRINT: This is made by a third party, and I neither offer support for it nor accept any liability as a result of you...
Instapaper makes me more productive, everywhere. On my desktop it dismisses distractions. On the go it transmutes idle time to knowledge. It remembers things I forget, but it has never...
My current server, photo courtesy of Kevin Hazard at The Planet. It’s just the middle one with the label (other people’s servers are pictured above and below), but I just...
Give Me Stuff I Starred A jQuery plugin to get and embed your starred Instapaper items in your blog theme, by Bill Israel.
Macworld: The eight best iPad apps so far Names Instapaper as the second one. Thanks!
Now that I’ve had a brief time to use the iPad, there are a number of interface and behavioral changes I want to make. Specifically: There are a few bugs...
10 Apps We’re Excited to Try on iPad Launch Day By Brian Chen for Wired Gadget Lab.
I’m probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone’s anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I’ll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple’s next revolutionary computing...
148Apps reviews Instapaper Pro 2.2 Are you literate? Do you read long things online? If so, Instapaper Pro is a must-have. By Bonnie Eisenman. Thanks, Bonnie.
If you love Instapaper as much as this guy, or if you just like it a bit, or even if you don’t like it at all, I’d really appreciate it...
Instapaper Pro 2.2.1 is now in the App Store. This is a bugfix release that fixes crashes related to dictionary lookups, the in-app browser, missing articles, rotation locking in the...
Instapaper Pro just took the #2 spot in the News category of paid apps in the App Store! This is a huge honor. Know how I say in the “Why...
Instapaper Update Adds Pagination, Dictionary and Browser Instapaper Pro, one of Gadget Lab’s favorite iPhone apps, has been updated to version 2.2. Despite that incremental number, there is a slew...
Before Instapaper Pro 2.2, I got frequent emails from customers who were upset that they had inadvertently tapped the status bar, which scrolls to the top of the article and...
Instapaper, iPhone app for reading, gets update By Mitch Wagner for Computerworld.
Jen Rubio: For Valentine’s Day, I made my boyfriend a handmade card declaring that my love for him was bigger than my love for [insert list of all-time favorite things...
Save Web pages to read later with Instapaper app for iPhone There are myriad RSS readers for the iPhone, but there’s one app we use for storing and reading text...
Instapaper Pro 2.2’s tap zones for pagination: I debated about these for a while and tried a few others during development: Sides only: Didn’t fit with concept of...
After months of development, Instapaper Pro 2.2 is now available. The full changelog is below, but first, a brief explanation if you’re interested. After the previous version’s release, I took...
That Instapaper is such an attractive development for the Kindle feels a bit backwards. The Kindle sends you books over the air, but I don’t really want that, I’d continue...
CNN names Instapaper Pro “Most useful” Since CNN republished the Best App Ever Awards from earlier today, I can now say that CNN named Instapaper one of its “Best iPhone...
Instapaper Pro named “Most Useful App” by Best App Ever Awards The Best App Ever Awards just announced their 2009 winners, and Instapaper Pro was named: Winner, Most Useful App...
Instapaper now supports these sites that require logins for premium, single-page, or all content: Ars Technica Autosport.com Baseball Prospectus Chronicle.com Economist ESPN Insider Financial Times Harper’s Liberation.fr LRB LWN New...
Ephemera for Mac Ephemera will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading...
Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon emailed me to show me the new send-to-Instapaper support in FeedDemon’s update from this week. Nick says: To use it, first click the “gear” icon to...
Sending from FeedDemon to Instapaper FeedDemon does have support for sending 3rd party blog posts to your own blog, though. It also allows you to specify your blog’s input however...
Wired: 5 Apps We Can’t Wait to See on the iPad Instapaper, not iBooks or anything else, is the thing that will turn your iPad into the ultimate, personal, newspaper....
I’m honored.
Yesterday, through participation in Indie+Relief (whether they realized it or not), Instapaper Pro’s new customers donated over $1500 to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Thanks, everyone!
All of today’s (Wednesday’s) proceeds from Instapaper Pro are being donated to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as part of the Indie+Relief program. You have half of the day left to...
I’m very happy to announce the result of a lot of work that dramatically improves the Kindle edition of Instapaper: periodical formatting. (This is one of those things that’s much...
Instapaper: Offline Reading On-The-Go AppStorm review of Instapaper Pro on the iPhone.
The Boston Globe: There’s an app for this Joanne McNeil for The Boston Globe includes Instapaper on the short list of apps that let you “tap into the world of...
Check out the new Extras page. I bet there’s at least one feature on there that you didn’t know about.
New feature: Bulk archiving and deleting Now you can bulk-archive any folder’s articles, or bulk-delete articles from the Archive. This has been a highly requested feature – it’s especially useful...
Instapaper named Best Reader in Macworld’s 2009 App Gems Awards This is a great honor. Thanks!
I’m planning to make the “new” text parser (with inline images) the default setting as soon as it’s reliable enough, probably within a month or two. Eventually I’ll turn off...
How To Make Your Kindle Into an Automatic Instapaper Great idea by Charlie Sorrel for Wired: using OS X’s Automator to automatically download and transfer the new Kindle export whenever...
I’m working with Amazon to keep the wireless-delivery feature running. This morning’s deliveries should have succeeded. If you still have wireless daily deliveries enabled, please let me know if you...
The new Kindle feature is intended to replace the old one, not to supplement it. The old feature generates a big HTML file every day or week for each user...
Now in public beta: ePub downloads: Download any folder’s 20 most recent articles as an .epub file that’s readable on many popular e-reader devices, including most Sony Readers and (probably)...
Fixed many small bugs. Pages can no longer be too wide to fit on screen. Very long words can no longer overflow the right edge. Adjusted styling on blockquotes to...
Modified the container-selection algorithm to increase accuracy, especially to reduce the chances of stripping legitimate content. A bit more extraneous content may now be permitted on certain sites. Still optimizing....
More text-parser updates: Fixed two big bugs and a handful of smaller ones. Tweaked algorithms for compatibility with a lot more sites. Fixed relative images and links when the <base>...
Thanks for your text-parser feedback, everyone. Tonight I got through about two thirds of the first wave and made these changes: Restyled blockquotes to be full-width, separated from the surrounding...
Now in beta testing: New Text parser with inline images! Go to your Account Settings page to enable it. When enabled, it will affect both the iPhone app and the...
A preview of one of the many things I’m working on.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4GkNdWL6IM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque I love this Instapaper Pro video demo/review by Adam Weiss. Thanks, Adam!
The 2.1.2 update was just approved and is now available in the App Store. New in Instapaper Pro: Tumblr and Twitter sharing now work offline. Posts are submitted when you...
The usability of this app all flows from its deep support for plain text versions of text. I find the more I create and consume text, the less abstraction I...
Instapaper: A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase On the Wired Gadget Lab blog. Thanks, Dylan!
Website update: Folders now have their own bookmarklets. Check the footer of the folder’s page for a special Read Later bookmarklet that sends pages directly into that folder. (These are...
Google’s new Send-to feature includes built-in support for Instapaper. Thanks, Google Reader team, for the inclusion in this handy feature. The Instapaper bookmarklet now supports Google Reader natively as well....
Best iPhone app ever? Book has one answer O’Reilly’s Best iPhone Apps book features Instapaper, which itself is a huge honor. But today, Gregg Ellman published this syndicated article with...
If Instapaper Free or Pro 2.1 crash for you, I believe I’ve found and fixed the cause: there’s sometimes an error handling “about:blank” or “http://” entries on the iPhone apps....
New in both: Interface, speed, and stability improvements. iPhone OS 3.0 is now required. Article list no longer rotates (considering putting this back in since some users liked it). Details...
I’ve just submitted Instapaper Free 2.1 to Apple for review. It will probably be approved within a few weeks. Changes: Background updating, so you can hit Update, then read other...
Macworld: Instapaper 2 for iPhone Minor correction: The previous version of Instapaper Pro did support graphics. All versions of Free and Pro have – but Text mode is so fast...
I’ve submitted Pro 2.1 to Apple for review. I’m not sure how long approval will take, but it will probably be at least a few weeks. It requires iPhone OS...
Some customers were experiencing a hang in the bookmarklet in which it would indefinitely wait after the title said “(Saving…)”. This was caused by visiting the bookmarklet installation page without...
What’s new: Folders for article organization. Star articles, and subscribe to other users’ Starred folders for article recommendations. (Directory coming soon.) Feed folders: Many RSS-capable, Instapaper-friendly websites can be subscribed...
You can subscribe to another user’s Starred items as a folder. Simply click Add Folder and select “Another user’s Starred items” on top. Now you can have: Shared reading lists...
I was holding out on this until the 2.0 release, but I’m tired of waiting. Instapaper now supports folders! (Note: Folders will not be supported on the iPhone app until...
Instapaper Pro now on sale at $4.99 I have to clear out all of this old 1.3 inventory in case Apple approves 2.0 this week! Seriously, this is to celebrate...
I just updated the Read Later bookmarklet code. Changes: It now displays inline with the page – no more separate window popping up. This improves compatibility with Safari 4 and...
Here’s a fun new toy before I leave for WWDC.
I believe I’ve fixed the issues many Kindle users were having: Table of Contents only linking to the first few articles, or not all articles present. Digests not being delivered...
Apple came through! Thanks, whoever had any part in making this happen. So tonight I resubmitted the real 2.0, as 2.0, for real. I’ll modify my approval estimate to the...
Just submitted this. Here’s the deal: Version 1.4 had previously been rejected for that toolbar icon issue. Rather than resubmit it and wait another 8-10 days for the same version...
I’m sorry for the update delays, everyone – my wife and I just moved to a new apartment last weekend, and as I’m sure you’re aware, that can be more...
ChannelFlip Web reviews Instapaper. Awesome!
Instapaper 1.4 delayed for icon trademark issue Citing trademark infringement, Apple prohibits the depiction of an iPhone in any icons or graphics in apps. So I need to make a...
I’ve just updated the service to include a major improvement for Text-mode page compatibility. Before, if the service’s text parser couldn’t properly parse the document for whatever reason (often due...
Here goes. Pro gets updated first. (Ignore that “Date Submitted” field – that’s the date I submitted the first version, not this one.)
The new tilt-scrolling icon in 1.4 was designed by Joshua Keay for FileMagnet, and he offered it to me for free. Thanks, Josh! FileMagnet is the only other application I’ve...
That’s better.
Instapaper is experiencing intermittent slowdowns tonight. As far as I can tell, its host, ThePlanet, is having severe DNS problems. Rumors indicate that it might be a DOS attack against...
For technical reasons, I have to impose an article limit in Instapaper Pro 1.4 in addition to the new limit in Free. The iPhone doesn’t have enough horsepower and memory...
I’ve previously written that I didn’t want to impose severe restrictions on Instapaper Free to make it an annoying promo for Instapaper Pro. I still feel that way, but I’m...
Some pages saved from The New York Times are showing only their login screen in Instapaper instead of the article. Something recently changed on their end, not mine, to break...
I’m sorry for such a long delay – this is just such a major release (new features, about 75% new code, tons of improvements) that I want to make sure...
I just updated the site again with more encoding improvements, and it’s approaching 100% character compatibility in Text view. Please tell me if you see any sites whose characters get...
Last night, I updated the character-encoding code to properly process more encodings. This should fix a number of prominent non-U.S. sites that were previously being improperly parsed by Instapaper, such...
The Instapaper Pro 1.4 icon finally removes the Apple “swoosh” across the middle. Sorry about not doing that sooner – it looks much better this way.
Kindle support is now available as a public beta. So feel free to start using it – but it hasn’t been widely tested yet, so when you see something that’s...
Instapaper (analogue edition): I had personally curated a series of articles, blog posts and essays that I was genuinely interested in, but somehow the resulting collection felt like a to-do...
Our justice system at work.
New list layout, new Starred Articles feature I’ve just updated Instapaper.com with a new article-list layout and a new Starred Articles feature. You can star any article, and it shows...
This is coming along nicely.
Article updates in the iPhone app should now be working again. Please contact me if you still get the “I’m sorry” error message when you tap Update.
I’m looking into it and will have it fixed as soon as possible. I apologize for the service interruption.
Time to make this great.
sikes senter ★✩✩✩✩ by Sikes senter take this advice!!!!!!!! do not download this app!!!!!! just do the following: • go to the page that you want to save and press...
The next major version of the iPhone/iPod touch app, Instapaper Free and Pro 1.4, is almost done! This is a major update – almost worthy of the “2.0” designation (but...
Instapaper is growing! But so is the hosting bill. So I’m testing ads on the site for the next few weeks. I’m trying to be as careful as possible to...
I feel like one of those lazy people in the WALL•E while using the tilt scrolling. It’s that good. —Smoking Apples’ review of Instapaper Pro
Instapaper was launched 1 year ago today with this post on my tumblelog. It was met with great feedback and shortly got some high-profile links, starting prominently with John Gruber’s....
The Instapaper API allows third-party applications to add URLs to Instapaper. Basics All API methods are accessible via very simple HTTP calls. This is optimized for ease of implementation, so...
I’m considering shrinking the “Tilt Scrolling ON” button to a regular toolbar icon because I really need the toolbar space for another item or two to hold new features and...
I wonder if I can do this well.
Another preview of the Instapaper 1.4 app: Updates run continuously. The application automatically checks for updates whenever you have an internet connection. Articles download separately from the main viewing thread,...
Tweetie 1.2 with Instapaper support Tweetie, an excellent Twitter client for the iPhone, just released version 1.2 with Instapaper support. It’s an excellent app – highly recommended for Twitter users....
Here’s a little preview of one of the many improvements in the upcoming Instapaper 1.4. Notice what’s different? (Tap a link in 1.3 if you didn’t notice.)
Scott Simpson, Merlin Mann, and Adam Lisagor are officially awesome. (I love their work, too!)
Instapaper on the Kindle (by ocellnuri) So that’s how it looks. Note to self: Get a Kindle and make this awesome.
Our Favorite iPhone Apps: Best information tools Great mention of Instapaper Pro by Macworld. Thanks!
I’ve just updated Instapaper.com with a few new features: “Move articles to archive automatically” toggle. Until now, “yes” has been the only behavior. If you uncheck this, articles won’t be...
Instapaper.app 1.3 has been very well received, but I’m already hard at work on the next major version. There will be some great new features coming in the next few...
Time’s top 10 iPhone apps of the year (thanks for finding this, fatmanatee) Time has named Instapaper the #7 best iPhone app of the year. Thanks! I’m honored.
I love everything about this.
This is the nicest feedback I’ve ever received.
The Instapaper service has just been updated to accommodate a change in The New York Times that was causing multi-page articles to only include the first page. With all of...
This one?
Macworld: Gear for your iPhone Macworld features Instapaper in a list of iPhone recommendations. Thanks!
I’m working on some minor issues: Some multi-page articles from The New York Times are only importing page 1. Articles from Salon appear as graphical-only with a malformed red background....
How to sell an iPhone app for $9.99 TUAW liked my article. Thanks, Mike Schramm!
Go get it!
Like many other third-party apps, as well as Mobile Safari itself since iPhone OS 1.0, Instapaper can sometimes force-quit frequently after a lot of heavy use until after a reboot....
Apple has approved the 1.3 update for Instapaper Pro. It’s now available in the App Store as a free update for all Instapaper Pro customers, or a $9.99 upgrade from...
Instapaper 1.3 submitted to App Store It will probably be available within a week. New in Instapaper 1.3 (Free and Pro) Continuous updating: Articles are now downloaded one-at-a-time until there...
Over the weekend, two authors wrote great posts about the sad state of App Store pricing: Andy Finnell: How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence Veiled Games: A...
Readers who ride the train, bus, or subways will likely find Instapaper an essential part of their daily commute or journey. —Instapaper review at AppCraver
Still printing articles to “read later”? Get over it. Almost any cellphone has a good enough screen to read text. If you have an iPhone, you can even use the...
TUAW Friday Favorite: Instapaper for iPhone/iPod touch Thanks, TUAW! (And sorry to Levi in the comments – I get a lot of email and can’t respond to all of it,...
Seven Must-Have Offline Apps For Your iPhone/iPod Touch Thanks for the mention, ReadWriteWeb. One correction: The Instapaper bookmarking tool for iPhone lets you bookmark up to 10 web pages for...
gris: ThingsWeCantDo From the Google Reader iPhone Sync application available to jailbroken iPhones via Cydia: Tilt Scrolling As seen in Instapaper Pro. But I thought of it before they implemented...
InformationWeek: 13 Free Apps For iPhone, iPod Touch It’s the electronic equivalent of your magazine “to be read” pile – but it doesn’t clutter up the coffee table in your...
Instapaper lets you create a library of online articles on your iPhone Great praise from 37signals!
Pages from The Atlantic now work again. I apologize for the temporary problem.
Items like this, from The Morning News’ sidebar, previously said “Print for the commute”. Instapaper: now more environmentally friendly by saving trees! (Seriously, this is a great honor. Thanks for...
Recently, pages from The Atlantic have not been available offline. I’m investigating this, and hopefully it’s only temporary. Thank you for your patience.
From AppVee’s review of Instapaper Free: It’s not confusing in the sense that it’s hard to use, it’s just confusing as to why you would need to use it. The...
Instapaper Pro 1.3 will have this much-improved font panel.
I think you should do it.
Reading Only Devices: Why iPhone, Kindle, and Tablet PCs Might Mean Smarter Blog Comments This probably sounds unhealthy but I really have gone though Instapaper while fixing dinner — skillet...
Instapaper: The Key to Reading Websites on the Kindle With screenshots of Instapaper and its Text mode on the Kindle. I keep meaning to optimize for the Kindle, but I’ve...
Many Apple and third-party iPhone applications use UINavigationController and UITableView to navigate through an application’s data hierarchy. But not all of the niceties are done for you. Here are some...
There are very few differences between Free and Pro. This is intentional, for one simple reason: I don’t want the free version to suck. I don’t impose any arbitrary limits...
I’m aiming to have version 1.3 of the iPhone app in beta testing in mid- to late-October for possible release in early November. I initially wanted to release it sooner,...
I’m back from my vacation now and slowly going through the email and development queues. I apologize – my response time on email will probably slow for a while for...
Macworld review: Instapaper for iPhone Thanks, Ben Boychuk! This was a nice surprise to come home to. And it rippled through to many other blogs.
I’ll be on vacation (getting married, then the honeymoon) from tomorrow until October 6. During that time, I won’t be able to answer support emails, but I’ll do my best...
Instapaper is now being featured in the App Store! I’m very honored. Thanks, everyone, for using it and making Instapaper popular enough to get on Apple’s radar. (And thanks to...
The next version’s settings switches also have a useful little interface tweak: the touch-target area to toggle the switch is the entire table row, not just the switch widget. I...
Coming in the next major update: the frequently-requested “only ever download Text” option. This gives a massive speed improvement for updates since the Text version is often 5-10 times smaller...
I’m considering this smaller title-font size for the list screen. It fits more characters from the title, so you can more easily distinguish articles with similarly-starting titles. The regular size...
Free Instapaper version of Music 2.0 book This is pretty cool: Gerd Leonhard has published an iPhone-friendly version of his book, Music 2.0, using Instapaper.
Lee: “I’m testing out the new Instapaper Ultra, so far no bugs have been found.”
Oh yeah, and does that “Update again for more…” thing annoy you? Me too. It’s gone in the next update.
Here’s a preview of an upcoming update to Instapaper Pro. Two big changes: The top navigation bar is gone. This gives 12% more readable area. The font picker moved into...
By Steven Murphy, whose iPhone has been red-flagged.
Daring Fireball: The Future of the Instapaper iPhone App John Gruber helped me test Instapaper Pro during development and provided invaluable feedback, and now here’s a prime link – actually,...
TUAW: Developers discuss future plans A nice Instapaper mention on TUAW. Thanks, Dave Caolo!
Symptom: Regardless of where you are in an article, the scroll position often resets to the upper-left corner if you rotate the iPhone to change the page orientation. Cause: This...
I fixed these bugs tonight: Web versions weren’t downloading reliably since sometime over the weekend Occasional update-clearing bug New York Times character encoding As usual, the fixes will apply to...
I’ve had a number of iPhone-app ideas floating around in my head since the SDK’s launch. I never thought Instapaper would be my only product, or that I’d be able...
There’s a temporary issue that’s preventing Instapaper from downloading the Web versions of some pages that normally work. I’m working on it and should have it fixed soon. Thank you...
Lonelysandwich gets me a lot of traffic …by favorably reviewing Instapaper Pro. Thanks, Adam!
More articles now supported. Fixed all known character-encoding bugs. No more random characters (Ã) or missing dashes (—). Sorry, pages from mobile.newyorktimes.com are still not supported. It’s on my to-do...
Instapaper Pro: Now – yes! – a full 100% awesomer. Very favorable review from Bill Barol. Thanks!
The first reviews are in. If you’re a Pro user, please submit yours!
i’ve found that instapaper’s read later function has proved most useful when using internet late at night when drunk and don’t know how to read words. —I LIKE PIE: later...
There’s an occasional bug where, if you have a lot of unread articles, an update will clear the list and only leave the most recent 5 articles, leaving you to...
I’m still working hard on support for The New York Times. Character encoding is still giving me a lot of headaches, but more pages should work now than yesterday. I...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/1540283?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&app_id=122963 Watch in HD on Vimeo Instapaper Pro is now available! This video demos one of the key features: tilt scrolling. Pro also remembers your positions in each article and...
I’m very happy to announce, albeit cautiously, that I’ve added preliminary support for stories from The New York Times. So far, it’s Text-mode only, and the character encoding isn’t quite...
It’s almost done. It’s at the last stage: Apple needs to legally approve the payment contracts. I’m guessing that it should be released in the App Store on Monday or...
(By shusta.) Yes, that’s a problem I can’t solve as easily. The other day, I was very scared and convinced that I had found a bug in 1.2 and the...
New York Times Blog: Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty Rather than print out an article to read later, we hit “Read Later” or Read It Later, ShifD or...
Instapaper has now been featured for a week in the What’s Hot section on the App Store’s main page (now complete with 1.2’s icon). Thanks, Apple!
Some users were affected by an incomplete database upgrade when going from 1.0.1 to 1.2. To fix this, simply Log out under the Account section from the app’s main screen,...
Here goes! Apple’s approval process has been faster recently, so I don’t expect this to take more than a few days (although we just started a weekend). Expect a demo...
Instapaper 1.2 available now from the App Store Changes here.
That doesn’t sound safe…
By riddle (via Twitter Search)
webmarc: Cool: Marco’s super useful Instapaper iPhone app is being featured in the App Store. Awesome!
Instapaper Free 1.2 submitted to the App Store …with tons of changes. I don’t know when it will be approved by Apple and published in the App Store — probably...
Someone buy katiebakes an iPhone.
I’ve just pushed a major update to Instapaper’s character handling in both Text and Web modes. This should resolve the majority of bugs involving: Smart quotes and em-dashes Accented characters...
Since Text mode is far more readable and faster to load on the iPhone, I’m considering making it the default view mode. I’ve also had a number of people request...
I’m very excited to announce that I’m in final testing of Instapaper Pro, coming soon to the App Store. I don’t want to spoil the feature and improvement list yet,...
These errors have been cropping up more than I’d like. I’m working very hard to make Instapaper compatible with as many sites as possible. Current problem sites: Sites that contain...
Update speed is now much faster. Instead of packing the page down to iPhone size when you tap the Update button, the service now packs it in advance and saves...
Recently, there have been many character encoding issues. This can result in mangled or missing characters including “smart quotes”, accented characters, and characters from non-Roman alphabets. I’m working hard to...
A Shopping Trip To the App Store For Your iPhone Walt Mossberg mentions Instapaper in The Wall Street Journal: Instapaper: free A handy way to store Web pages on your...
…a slew of my favorite native iPhone apps have built-in WebKit browsers (e.g., NetNewsWire, Twitterrific, Instapaper, and Cocktails). —Daring Fireball: WebKit Performance on iPhone OS X 2.0. Thanks for the...
TIME: Top 11 iPhone Applications Sometimes the simplest tools are the handiest. This one lets you send articles you find online directly to your phone. Set up an account on...
Bad News For The Kindle: iPhone 3G + Apps Instapaper, which brings Tumblr dude Marco Arment’s simple “read later” service to the iPhone. Actually, it’s much better on the iPhone...
The Morning News awards Instapaper’s iPhone usefulness View a web page on your computer, save it to your Instapaper web page, then view that page on your iPhone, which is...