What Users Really Think About Instapaper

This was a generally great app for my needs. I am much more of an auditory absorber of information and this app was generally very good at it. But with the new “AI” voices update, the overall user experience has degraded. I am looking forward to the future improvements so I can return to my five sta...

Sometimes I wonder if companies even test or use their own products. For me, the most important feature of Instapaper is highlighting text and making notes. The good news: I can highlight text and make a note. More good news: I can view the highlights and notes (via a dialog box) by opening the el...

Tried to read some recently saved articles and waited over five minutes while it slowly loaded old articles one by one but wouldn't show me any of my recent saves. I thought maybe I was too optimistic about my sync settings, so I set the sync settings to the lowest amount. Didn't help. Uninstalled, ...

Revision: I’m revising my rating from 4 stars to two. Not only does the new version hang when transitioning to and from the car but you have to get all the way out, delete finished stories and create a new playlist but you still can’t forward to the next story without finishing the current one. It g...

Update: $60 a year is absurd! Told you so! OG review: I used to pay for Instapaper, then it was sold and went free, now it’s back to a pay service. In that transition I’ve lost hundreds of articles. Graduate research, personal project research, recipes, and long form articles… all gone. No notices g...

Looking for a Pocket replacement that isn’t a mess. Came here from Raindrop after they added AI junk to their service. Now Instapaper will hallucinate the contents of articles for me, or read it out in a creepy AI voice. I can’t wait for this bubble to pop and these tech companies to stop chasing th...

The only reason on bought the app was so I could save articles and have the app read them to me while I am on the road. It is extremely choppy and you cannot even listen to it. I kept thinking it was a bug that they would fix. Nothing yet and it’s been about 2 months.

Tried it, didn’t keep it. I liked the UI and had no initial pains with saving from my usual spots (Apple News, web articles, emails). I REALLY didn’t like the TTS voices compared to those of Reader by Readwise (which admittedly is far more expensive). For me the TTS experience is crucial, so until t...