A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.
About Instapaper
Instapaper is a tools app developed by Instant Paper, Inc..
Download Statistics
Instapaper has been downloaded 960 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 10 thousand times.
User Ratings
Instapaper is rated 4.55 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 11 thousand ratings.
App Information
Instapaper is FREE to download. The APK download size is 33.88 MB. The latest version available is 6.5. The last update was on August 12, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Instapaper requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2012.
Description
Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.
Instapaper for Android provides a mobile and tablet-optimized Text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Read offline, even on airplanes, subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.
CORE FEATURES: - Saves most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for tablet and phone screens - Distraction-free reading environment gets out of your way so you can focus on the content - Everything you download is then available **OFFLINE**, so you can read whenever you want, even on airplanes, subways, or Wi-Fi-only devices away from internet connections
PLUS: - Optimized tablet interface - Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins - Dark mode and brightness control for night reading - Sort your list of unread items by popularity, date, article length, and shuffle - Folders for organization - Share via web browser and any app that supports sharing - Rotation lock - Download up to 500 articles on your phone or tablet, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website - Folders for organization - Dictionary and Wikipedia lookups - Tilt scrolling, page-flipping - Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app - Search, via in-app purchase
Recent changes: * Introducing AI Voices: high-quality, streaming text-to-speech voices. We are launching 17 voices across 8 languages. * 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. * Improved play/pause from AirPods and handling audio interruptions. * Fixed issues with YouTube embeds. * Other minor fixes and improvements.
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As a pocket replacement it's fairly good, however I would love an Adaptive Icon and a way to immediately open the app after saving an article through the share sheet - rather than just have tag and archive options.
★★★★★Gerry McGowan· Jun 10, 2026
Love this app, particularly sharing articles to my Kobo!
★★★★☆Jeremy Olson· Mar 18, 2026
Truly a fantastic replacement for Pocket and does everything I need! It would be great to have a two-column reader view, though. For foldable and tablets. Makes reading much more comfortable. Extra credit for a nice paye turn animation!
★★★★★Charles Brock· Nov 6, 2025
Instapaper has been the perfect go to app for saving articles to read later when Pocket went out of business. I do wish it came with a how-to-guude. It's taken me some time to navigate, but it's working now, and I've all but forgotten Pocket.
★☆☆☆☆Andrew Wood· Jun 18, 2026
The latest update did NOT fix the bug of deleted articles reloading.
★☆☆☆☆Brett Rohaly· Nov 25, 2025
It was working great. It keeps telling me wrong password, so I used the forgot password, they email me link to change password, I changed it, and every time I use new password, sorry wrong password.
★★☆☆☆Azmah Abd· Jan 14, 2026
I noticed that there's a speed reading feature. Please please please enable uploading PDF free for up to 4 files a day 😭 By the way, some articles have interactive and clickable button/toggle on them. There must be a way for the users to access these even after downloading it! Also, to the developers, I suggest that you guys should add bionic reading font. The words would become easier to detect if there's a mode like that.
★★☆☆☆Chris Christodoulou· Oct 27, 2025
I can understand not being able to search the text, but not being able to search article titles unless going premium is nonsense...
★★☆☆☆Brent Nichols· Aug 3, 2026
If you listen to an article, Instapaper doesn't save where you left off the next time you use the app. The playlist is also lost if you queued articles in a list for listening, so you have to create it from scratch again. It would also be helpful if an article were archived automatically when you are finished listening to it.
★★☆☆☆Waseem Ashraf· Apr 2, 2026
This app has lots of bugs. Sometimes the labels don't show up, although a new one has been added right before the try. Sometimes links that I've saved are missing which come back the other time.
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