Instapaper
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 2 of 5 read-it-later apps by recommenders
Simple service for saving articles to read later, with integrations for e-readers and apps; Premium adds text-to-speech.
Simple service for saving articles to read later, with integrations for e-readers and apps; Premium adds text-to-speech.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 91%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 10 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Integrates with Kindle and Kobo
“I have miniflux set up so it integrates with instapaper so I get interesting articles on my kindle.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “The Death of Social Media Is the Renaissance of RSS” “It's integrated in my ebook reader too.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “A tab hoarder's journey to sanity” “I use Instapaper on my kobo for this”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone” - Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)”
Saves articles to read later
“I've settled on a mix of Instapaper and using SingleFile uploads to Dropbox.”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep” “I can (with some effort) save it to Instapaper to read outside the browser”
Comment from 9 May 2026 in “The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012)” “It's also nice to use Instapaper to read queued articles.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “iPhone Duo”
Other read-it-later apps people recommend
The four most recommended other read-it-later apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 5 read-it-later apps, rankedWhat people said
11 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I've settled on a mix of Instapaper and using SingleFile uploads to Dropbox.”
“It's also nice to use Instapaper to read queued articles.”
“I use Instapaper on my kobo for this”
“I can (with some effort) save it to Instapaper to read outside the browser”
“The Instapaper integration is awesome”
“I have miniflux set up so it integrates with instapaper so I get interesting articles on my kindle.”
“Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo”
“It does what it should with minimal fuss and enshittification.”
“Instapaper has excellent text-to-speech with their Premium subscription.”
“the Instapaper home screen feels unhelpful and off-putting to me.”
“It's integrated in my ebook reader too.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.