Instapaper

Name: Instapaper
Rating: 4.6 (3521 reviews)
Author: Instant Paper, Inc.

By: Instant Paper, Inc. App

News

Overview

Version:

9.4.1

Last updated: 2025-12-15

Ranking

#32,342 ▼ 41

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

App News & Magazines Content Writing Privacy & Security

By:

Instant Paper, Inc.

Rating:

4.60

(3,521) 2 new ratings

Version:

9.4.1 Last updated: 2025-12-15

Version code:

880564759

Creation date:

2019-02-12

Compatible devices:

Works as Safari extension:

Size:

46.96MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 32,342 ▼ 41

Other platforms

Instapaper (v6.4.1)

947,405 4.60

(12,698)

Instapaper (v3.1.3)

18,795 4.33

(123)

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

Contact the developer

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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

Saving articles is so fast and easy and this app does it so well. I’m so impressed by how easy it works, and I only have the free version. The premium version doesn’t really have many features that I want but I would happily pay money for additional features like word counts, more sorting options, more data displays at the top of articles, etc. I also love how easy it is to send links to friends, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to send links from within the app but that works great too.

by Xb*****, 2026-06-21

Sometimes works to rip content from Apple News to Instapaper. Sometimes the same content provider works, and sometimes it does not. Worth a subscription: probably not if Instapaper can't improve the quality of its output.