Instapaper

Name: Instapaper
Rating: 4.6 (3534 reviews)
Author: Instant Paper, Inc.

By: Instant Paper, Inc. App

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Overview

Version:

10.0.1

Last updated: 2026-08-13

Ranking

#30,898 ▼ 22

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Instapaper makes saving and reading articles effortless. It delivers clutter-free, mobile-optimized formatting for offline viewing, along with features like text-to-speech, highlights, notes, and easy one-tap saving from other apps. Organize your reading with folders and enjoy a clean, distraction-free experience wherever you are.

For Premium subscribers, Instapaper adds full-text search, unlimited highlights and notes, a text-to-speech playlist, and speed-reading to help you consume content faster. Subscriptions are billed via Apple ID and renew automatically unless canceled, with flexible management in your account settings.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Instant Paper, Inc.

Rating:

4.60

(3,534)

Version:

10.0.1 Last updated: 2026-08-13

Version code:

889567019

Creation date:

2019-02-12

Compatible devices:

Works as Safari extension:

Size:

48.99MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-22

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 30,898 ▼ 22

Other platforms

Instapaper (v6.4.1)

958,776 4.61

(12,810)

Instapaper (v3.1.3)

18,528 4.33

(124)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Instant Paper, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instapaper/id288545208

Website:

http://www.instapaper.com/iphone

User Reviews

Instapaper offers a clean, article-focused reading experience with strong saving, highlighting, and sharing features, plus solid cross-device syncing. However, users repeatedly cite slow syncs, PDF syncing gaps, reliability glitches, steep pricing with data-loss concerns, and problematic AI features, which temper enthusiasm for otherwise strong core functionality.

Pros

Clean, distraction-free reading UI and content-focused view.
Effective content extraction that strips clutter from articles.
Easy in-app sharing of saved content (email/text) and general sharing.
Highlighting and note-taking features (highlights, viewable notes).
Reliable read-it-later experience with offline access and cross-device syncing (Pocket replacement).

Cons

Slow or unreliable syncing and long loading times for saved articles.
PDFs do not sync, limiting access to some documents.
Frequent reliability issues like crashes, freezes, and occasional startup problems.
High pricing with concerns about value and reports of data loss during service changes.
AI-related features are underwhelming or problematic (low-quality TTS voices and content hallucinations).

Recent reviews

Instapaper mostly works great! I often use it to transfer articles to my Kobo. It often misses images, which isn’t usually a big deal. It usually fails to import academic articles, especially those that I have access via a redirect to my University’s library. It also tends to split lines in half after the first few pages of reading. It will show the top half of the letters in a line on one page, and then the bottom half of those letters on the next page. Other than these relatively small issues, it is working well for me!

by al*****, 2026-08-12

I updated the app on my ipad, but I'm so disappointed with it that I have decided not to update my iphone. As other people have said, the new font is too small, and I haven't found a way to change the font. Second, I can't find a way to share an article via email. At least on the ipad, the share option is missing. Please add this back!