Instapaper

6.4.1

Instant Paper, Inc.

4.54

10,882 reviews

500,000+
Downloads

Free

A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.

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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 7.7 thousand times.

User Ratings

Instapaper is rated 4.54 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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More data about Instapaper

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	940 thousand
Recent downloads	7.7 thousand
Rating	4.54 based on 11 thousand ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	6.4.1
APK size	29.7 MB
Number of libraries	33
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

Instapaper has been downloaded 940 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 260 downloads per day.

Changelog of Instapaper

May 7, 2026UpdateVersion 6.4.1
Feb 26, 2026UpdateVersion 6.4.1
Dec 1, 2025UpdateVersion 6.4
Nov 13, 2025CategoryMoved from News & Magazines to Tools
Sep 10, 2025UpdateVersion 6.3.2
Aug 12, 2025UpdateVersion 6.3.1
Aug 8, 2025UpdateVersion 6.3.1
Aug 5, 2025UpdateVersion 6.3
Jul 21, 2025UpdateVersion 6.2.4
Jun 27, 2025UpdateVersion 6.2.3
Jun 3, 2025UpdateVersion 6.2.2
May 8, 2025UpdateVersion 6.2.1
Apr 21, 2025UpdateVersion 6.2
Jan 21, 2025UpdateVersion 6.1.1
Jan 15, 2025UpdateVersion 6.1
Nov 26, 2024UpdateVersion 6.0.1
Nov 14, 2024UpdateVersion 6.0.1
Sep 3, 2024UpdateVersion 5.2
Jul 24, 2024UpdateVersion 5.1
Feb 21, 2024UpdateVersion 4.5.8
Nov 19, 2023UpdateVersion 4.5.7
Sep 25, 2023UpdateVersion 4.5.7
Sep 6, 2023UpdateVersion 4.5.6
Aug 1, 2023UpdateVersion 4.5.4
Apr 19, 2022UpdateVersion 4.5.3
Nov 28, 2021UpdateVersion 4.5.2
Oct 1, 2021UpdateVersion 4.5.1
Aug 27, 2020Installs500,000+ installs
Jun 10, 2019UpdateVersion 4.5
May 10, 2018UpdateVersion 4.4.2
Aug 23, 2017UpdateVersion 4.4.1
Apr 3, 2017UpdateVersion 4.4
Dec 15, 2016UpdateVersion 4.3.4
Jan 27, 2016UpdateVersion 4.3.3
Jan 15, 2016UpdateVersion 4.3.2
Oct 22, 2015UpdateVersion 4.3.1
Sep 30, 2015UpdateVersion 4.3
Jun 23, 2015UpdateVersion 4.2.2
Jun 19, 2015UpdateVersion 4.2.1
Apr 12, 2015UpdateVersion 4.1.4
Apr 8, 2015UpdateVersion 4.1.3
Nov 28, 2014Installs100,000+ installs
Nov 8, 2014UpdateVersion 4.1.2
Oct 31, 2014UpdateVersion 4.1.1
Oct 29, 2014UpdateVersion 4.1
Sep 19, 2014Price DropNew price: Free ($2.99)
Sep 19, 2014UpdateVersion 4.0.0
Jul 31, 2014UpdateVersion 3.0.5
Jul 1, 2014UpdateVersion 3.0.4
Jun 11, 2014Installs50,000+ installs

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Developer information for Instant Paper, Inc.

Instant Paper, Inc.

support@help.instapaper.com

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Comments on Instapaper for Android

★★★★★ 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!

★★★★☆ Divya S.K · Nov 19, 2025

Simple, minimalistic & effective-especially easy to read in my Kobo Libra-though would prefer new update to include categorization in the archive folder & to warn error if already existing link shared to app previously.

★☆☆☆☆ 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.

★★☆☆☆ 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...

★☆☆☆☆ 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.

★★☆☆☆ 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.

★★☆☆☆ Suryan Sparrow · Mar 19, 2026

Wonderful app but the reading experience spoils because of one thing. App is really good but not many fonts are available in the app. Major thing in the app doesn't have the justified alignment page setting feature yet, due to that paragraph looks weird while reading. Please make justified alignment feature available then it will be more convenient to read

Google Play Rankings for Instapaper

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Technologies used by Instapaper

Instapaper is requesting 16 permissions and is using 34 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Network communication

view network connections, full network access, Google Play billing service

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

System tools

run at startup, prevent phone from sleeping, modify system settings

Extra

android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID, com.instapaper.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Android Jetpack Annotations Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack Annotations Firebase Android Library Icon

Firebase

Android Jetpack Widgets Android Jetpack AppCompat Android Library Icon

Android Jetpack AppCompat AndroidX Activity Android Library Icon

AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State AndroidX Loader Android Library Icon

AndroidX Loader

Android Transition Support Library Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

Android Support VectorDrawable AndroidX App Startup Android Library Icon

AndroidX App Startup AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Android Library Icon

AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Okio Android Library Icon

Okio

AndroidX Concurrent Futures AndroidX Emoji / Emoji2 Android Library Icon

AndroidX Emoji / Emoji2 Glide Android Library Icon

Glide

AndroidX SQLite AndroidX ExifInterface Android Library Icon

AndroidX ExifInterface AndroidX ProfileInstaller Android Library Icon

AndroidX ProfileInstaller Google Guava Android Library Icon

Google Guava Retrofit Android Library Icon

Retrofit

Jetpack DataStore AndroidX Privacy Sandbox Android Library Icon

AndroidX Privacy Sandbox Apache Commons I/O Android Library Icon

Apache Commons I/O Apache Commons Codec Android Library Icon

Apache Commons Codec jsoup: Java HTML Parser Android Library Icon

jsoup: Java HTML Parser Apache Http Auth Android Library Icon

Apache Http Auth ViewPager indicator Android Library Icon

ViewPager indicator DragSortListView Android Library Icon

DragSortListView SignPost OAuth Android Library Icon

SignPost OAuth

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