Instapaper iPhone app

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Instapaper iPhone app

by Jason Clarke Sep 22nd 2008

We first mentioned Instapaper back in January of this year. Back then it was certainly an interesting tool, but one of many. Now, with the introduction of an Instapaper iPhone application (iTunes links), this site has gone from "interesting tool" to "must-have utility".

Like other read-it-later type bookmarking tools, Instapaper lets you use a bookmarklet to flag articles that you'd like to read later, then gives you a web-based interface to go back and find those articles. The Instapaper iPhone app goes one further - it syncrhronizes offline copies of your saved articles so that you can read them even when you're not online.

Instapaper comes in both free and pro versions on the iPhone. The free version has met my needs perfectly so far, but I imagine if I was to go on a long flight, I would pony up the $10 for the full version, ~~as the free version only synchronizes 10 or so articles at a time~~.

[Update] Marco, the developer of Instapaper for the iPhone, chimed in in the comments to let me know that I was mistaken about the 10 article limit. I just re-tested on my copy, and sure enough there are 24 articles in there right now. My apologies, and thanks for letting me know, Marco!

Tags: Instapaper, iPhone, iPhone-app, read-it-later

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jash Sayani said 9:43AM on 9-22-2008

Delicious is much better. Web app + Firefox integration with official extension + New iPhone app (Bookmarks) on AppStore.

Marco Arment said 3:27PM on 9-23-2008

Thanks for featuring Instapaper!

Just a minor correction: Instapaper Free isn't limited to 10 articles. There's no real limit -- you can save as many articles as you have space for (barring other technical limits, of course).

Instapaper Free isn't artificially limited at all -- it just lacks a few features (position-remembering, tilt scrolling, email link/open in Safari) that the $9.99 Instapaper Pro offers.

Jason Clarke said 6:29PM on 9-23-2008

Marco, my apologies - I've updated the post to correct the error.

iPhonic said 7:21PM on 9-30-2008

Instapaper is gr8 app. Try Clip2Mobile, if you want to send small snippets of info to your iPhone. you can create notes, add contacts, bookmark, launch maps..all from your Desktop. that's so cool. more info www.clip2mobile.net

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