In the iOS app, tap the Friends button in the left-hand sidebar, tap Accounts, and add your credentials for whichever accounts you want to link.
Instapaper lets you post articles to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinboard, and Evernote. When you read something interesting, you might want to share it with others. You’ll find these apps listed on thatĮxtras page or by tapping Settings in the iOS app (at the bottom-left of the app’s main screen) and then tapping App Directory. Reeder ( ) lets me save articles I’m interested in to Instapaper with a couple of taps. For example, my favorite RSS reader for iOS, Instapaper is integrated into a number of apps where you’re likely to encounter new articles. NetNewsWire ( ) has its own Send to Instapaper button.įrom iOS apps. One other option on the Mac: the popular RSS client Sign in to your Instapaper account online and go to theĮxtras page, then drag the Read Later bookmarklet from there up to your OS X browser’s bookmarks bar. In the Settings pane, you can set up Mail, Safari, and other apps to store Instapaper links. It’s so easy to do so in a variety of contexts. (You just supply an email address and password.) That done, you’re ready to start saving articles. Instapaper site, click on Create an Account, and sign up. I used a website called EN2Kindle, but still didn’t feel like a good workaround because it sent each individual article to Kindle instead of one single “e-book.” As you can imagine, this would have quickly cluttered up my Kindle home screen if I have quite a few articles in my Pocket queue.If you don’t already have an Instapaper account, go to the You can schedule when you wanted to send your queue to your Kindle easily with Instapaper, but you can’t do that with Pocket. My biggest issue with Pocket so far has been the lack of Kindle support.
Pocket isn’t a perfect solution for me yet though. Sometimes, I would need to scroll down a few times just to get to the article. With Instapaper, it would save the related links that are added in the page from websites like ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Buzzfeed. One thing I really like about Pocket is that it only saves the main text or the article and nothing else. Sometimes, it would just hang and I had to exit out of the app to reset it. There were times on Instapaper where I had poor cellular reception and it took a while for it to save an article. One thing that was noticibly better was that articles saved significantly faster on iOS and on the desktop regardless of how fast my internet was.
If you choose the grid view, Pocket will display a thumbnail from the saved article and if it doesn’t have a picture, then it would display the headline instead, which already seemed like a good remedy to my issue with Instapaper.Īfter that, I switched all my API’s and didn’t come across any service that didn’t support Pocket. A few clicks and everything I had saved was in my Pocket’s queue. One day I finally broke down and decided to give its biggest competitor, Pocket, a try.įirst off, it wasn’t hard at all to export the articles I’ve already saved with Instapaper. I’ve overlooked this flaw many times before but recently, it’s been bothering me more and more. The only reason I decided to try Pocket and inevibitably stick with it, is because Instapaper has a hard time saving pictures. I could save an article I found on my MacBook and read it on my iPhone while waiting in line at Target. Over the years, the app has gotten better while keeping its simplistic user interface. I believe the app cost a whopping $9.99, which was pretty steep for an app at that time and my minimum wage salary. Come to think of it, it was probably one of the first apps I’ve ever bought just so I can unlock the “save unlimited articles” feature. I’ve been a loyal Instapaper ever since 2007 when I got my hands on the first generation iPhone.
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