Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.
Instapaper for macOS provides an optimized text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Instapaper also enhances the standard reading experience with features like text-to-speech.
Instapaper has been inducted into the iPhone and iPad Hall of Fame, received Macworld Editor's Choice Award, and has also been featured in publications including Wired, TIME, Daring Fireball, and The Verge, among others.
Core Features:
- Strip away all clutter and save the content of web pages into iOS-optimized formatting.
- Read anywhere! No internet, no problem: access your articles on airplanes, subways, elevators, or away from Internet connections.
- Control every aspect of your reading experience with a variety of font, color themes, and spacing options.
- Find that great quote you want to remember and share? Instapaper makes it easy to highlight and add notes to text in any article.
- Have your Instapaper articles narrated to you with text-to-speech. Just turn up the volume and relax!
- Sort your list of articles by popularity, date, and article length.
- Folders for easy organization.
Instapaper also offers an optional Instapaper Premium subscription for $5.99/month or $59.99/year. With Instapaper Premium you receive:
- Full-text search for articles in your account
- Unlimited highlights and notes.
- Text-to-speech Playlist to seamlessly listen to multiple articles.
- Unlimited use of the speed reading feature to help you get through articles up to 3x faster.
On sign up for Instapaper Premium, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase.
Terms of service: https://www.instapaper.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://www.instapaper.com/privacy
I'm super surprised that you can't highlight text. In fact, I was so surprised, that I assumed it was a bug, so I deleted and redownloaded the app thinking that would solve the "problem". It was only after reading other reviews that I realized this is simply a neglegence of the developers. I use Instapaper as a way to gather research across the web, which includes highlighting important portions of articles, and then sharing those highlights to other apps. Huge bummer I can't do this on the Mac. Better off using the website.UPDATE: Yay! Finally added!
Developer Response
Sorry for any inconvenience, this was tied to some issues with Apple's developer tools. We just built a custom workaround and highlights should work as expected in the most recent update. Please let us know if you continue to have any issues. Thanks so much for choosing Instapaper!
Mostly love, but some minor things
Readingthepix
I’m a long time user and I love the simplicity as well as the latest features. Still, I mostly listen to articles and I’m getting tired of sharing them from Instapaper to Speechify so I can hear them from a high quality automated voice. Instapaper’s low quality speech feature is a non-starter for me and now, with many publishers featuring high quality AI voices, I find myself clicking back to original articles to listen which also defeats the purpose of IP. One last thing: I don’t know if there is an upgrade to Instapaper Save on MacOS. On Sequoia, I haven’t been able to save to particular IP folders. Thanks, in advance, for your attentiveness and dedication to an overall great product!
Developer Response
Thanks for your comments - we're glad to hear you're enjoing Instapaper! Regarding Instapaper Save - it's been depricated. You'll find the latest version of Instapaper for MacOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instapaper/id288545208 That being said, we're exploring high quality voices for Instapaper. We'd be happy to add you to the beta once it's ready! Feel free to contact us at support@help.instapaper.com and we'll add you as a beta tester.
ADD HIGHLIGHTING IN DESKTOP VERSION
Boo Safari
Instapaper is THE staple of how I consume news and media since I started using it in November of 2020. I integrate it with all my devices as well as Readwise to really get max convenience and readiblity when consuming, as well as max value when I read and HIGHLIGHT key parts to revisit.So... why is there no way for you to highlight and comment on the desktop version of the app??? This is a gaping hole in the ecosystem, and it really needs to be filled. If you can make highlighting a keyboard shortcut as well (once you've highlighted a passage), well that'd just be icing on the cake. But the main point is to fill that hole ASAP and this becomes a 5 star Mac app. Thanks for your consideration.
Developer Response
Sorry for any inconvenience, this was tied to some issues with Apple's developer tools. We just built a custom workaround and highlights should work the same as in the mobile versions with the most recent update. Please let us know if you continue to have any issues. Thanks so much for choosing Instapaper!
Falls flat on macOS
Prometheas
UPDATE: I had previously incorrectly reported that InstaPaper does NOT appear as a share destination in Safari, but it seems like there may have simply been a delay in showing up in System Preferences.While Instapaper has been one of my favorite iOS apps for over a decade (time really files…), it is with some despair that I am forced to report that this macOS "port" simply doesn't deliver.It's almost as if the developers just added a macOS target in XCode and shipped it.Window layouts get awkward past certain (not-that-large) sizes. Navigating back to the main UI from an article screen has a weird bug that leaves the main list view utterly unresponsive. There's no "Preferences…" item in the app menu (and nor does cmd-, summon the settings screen).Nothing about the app really feels like it belongs on my Mac. It's even more poorly ported than Apple's own News app.You're honestly better off using Instapaper on your Mac through their website and using their "Instapaper Save" Safari extension app to capture content for now.Here's to hoping there's a Swift UI rewrite sometime down the line that will better behave across the platforms, but for now, I'm going to uninstall.
* AI Voices are now available on macOS. AI Voices are high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We are launching 17 voices across 8 languages including English, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese.
* Redesigned text-to-speech as a floating player throughout the application. You can easily expand the player to navigate to Playlist, select different voices, or manage articles while listening.
* Fixed crash when tagging articles from list.
* Other minor fixes and improvements.
Version 9.4.1
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