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 940 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 7 thousand times.
User Ratings
Instapaper is rated 4.51 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 11 thousand ratings.
App Information
Instapaper is FREE to download. The APK download size is 29.67 MB. The latest version available is 6.4.1. The last update was on May 7, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Instapaper requires Android 5.0+ 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: * Fixed issue with articles re-saving repeatedly on some devices. * Improved Logged-in Sites reliability on some websites. * Other minor fixes and improvements.
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Love this app, particularly sharing articles to my Kobo!
★★★★★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.
★★★★☆Matt Kelly· Dec 4, 2025
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.
★★★★☆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!
★☆☆☆☆Fran Jones· Sep 28, 2025
Moved to Instapaper reluctantly when Pocket shut down. Instapaper had a quick transfer feature but the instructions about using it were useless. Now I'm finding that a) new items I've shared with it aren't appearing + b) doing a search takes me to a page advertising the premium version with no way of exiting it. Can't believe the Search function is behind a pay wall - no wonder it's put at the end of the features in description! Looking elsewhere.
★★☆☆☆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...
★★☆☆☆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.
★☆☆☆☆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.
★☆☆☆☆Andrew Wood· Jun 18, 2026
The latest update did NOT fix the bug of deleted articles reloading.
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