Updates about new and improved Instapaper features.
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...
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 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’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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone released This is a huge update. See what’s new.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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>...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.)
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...
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...
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...
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.
Time to make this great.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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.
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...