This is an app designed with readers in mind, which makes sense given what it's for. Saving articles is simple thanks to extensions for every major browser, and there's a bookmark you can use if that doesn't work for you.
Reading happens in the mobile apps for Android and iOS, both of which support offline reading, or on the website if you're on your computer. The reading experience is clean, with custom font and color choices.
The unique feature here is the speed reading button, which flashes one word at a time in quick succession. You can adjust the speed, if you want, but the idea is that this forces you to keep reading in a way that results in getting through articles more quickly. It's interesting but probably not for everyone. There are also plenty of tools for organizing your articles.
The Home screen is meant to contain articles you haven't read yet, and you can archive articles when you're done. There's a folder for articles you "liked" by default, and you can also add as many folders as you like for sorting articles by topic. There are a few features offered by Instapaper that Pocket doesn't have. You can highlight quotes in an article, as in Pocket, but you can also add notes, which Pocket doesn't offer. You can also browse all of your highlights and notes in one place, without having to open the articles again.
This makes Instapaper a great way to review your thoughts after reading. Instapaper also offers built-in support for sending articles to a Kindle eReader. If any of these features appeal to you, Instapaper is probably the app for you. You can automate your reading workflows with Instapaper's Zapier integrations , which let you do things like automatically send articles from tweets you like over to Instapaper or send every article from an RSS feed to your reading list.
You can customize these workflows to use your favorite apps. There are two clear frontrunners in this space, if you haven't noticed. Be sure to check out our Instapaper vs. Pocket showdown to learn more about how these two apps match up. EmailThis Web. The problem with most read it later apps is that you need to remember to open the app and actually read things. EmailThis solves this problem by putting articles in a place you already look regularly: your email inbox.
Install the browser extension or use the bookmarklet to save articles. There's no website or app you can use to browse things you've saved—instead, the articles are sent to your email address. This isn't for everyone: lots of people would rather not fill their email inbox with stuff to read on top of everything else. But think about it: email newsletters are an increasingly common way to keep up with the news, and mobile devices are set up to download emails for offline reading already.
Why not also use your inbox to keep track of long-form articles you want to read? There's not much in the way of custom font choices, outside of how you've configured your email app.
And there's no built-in option for sorting your articles after you've read them, although you could use dedicated folders or labels in your inbox to sort articles after you're done reading them. But these downsides are potentially outweighed by simplicity—you can keep track of things you want to read without having to remember to check yet another app. That's valuable. Safari is the default browser on Apple devices, and it comes with a built-in reading list that automatically syncs between all of your devices.
It's not the most advanced read it later service, granted, but you can use it right now without having to install any software. Articles can optionally be saved for offline reading, and using Safari's Reader Mode, you can customize the colors and fonts. Articles are listed chronologically, and there's not really any way to organize them other than archiving.
There's a search feature, though, so you should be able to find old articles easily enough. It's not the most robust tool, but it works. Read it later apps aren't the only tools for the job—they're just the ones that are built with reading in mind.
Having said that, some other categories of apps could work for you. Here are a few worth thinking about. Note-taking apps like OneNote and Evernote offer web clippers, which extract articles and save them for future reference.
The downside: they're not designed with the reading experience in mind. Still, they might work for you, particularly if you wanted to mark up and edit the articles anyway. Check out our list of the best note-taking apps if you're curious. Bookmarking apps like Pinboard and Google Bookmarks can also be used to keep track of articles you want to read. They don't extract your articles for offline reading, or offer custom fonts and color schemes, but they make up for that with organizational features.
Check out our list of the best bookmark apps to learn more. Amazon offers a free Send to Kindle tool, which sends articles to the popular eInk devices as well as the Kindle app. We think Kindle users are better off using Instapaper for this, but Amazon's offering is simpler if sending articles to your Kindle is all you care about. It's not a complete read it later service, and it doesn't seem to be actively maintained, but it works. Where did the idea for apps like this come from?
Under Options, look for the Notebook menu heading. Sometimes it takes a few minutes for new notebooks to sync across your Evernote account.
Firefox users will need to click the Save Options button first. Instapaper is the newest to me. It has a newspaper- esque feeling that takes you slightly further away from the feeling of web-browsing, which can be nice. It also has a really cool speed-reading feature that will quickly display one word enlarged on your screen at a time, moving through words at your chosen speed. Not a read-later app. The options for how you do that varies a little from app to app, with Evernote having the most options and Instapaper the least.
All 3 apps allow you to save videos. Instapaper and Pocket even have tabs specifically for videos. They all have a browser extension so you can use the app and save items to them on your phone or on a desktop computer. Chrome extension.
This only applies to Pocket and Instapaper. They both will read the content of a saved article to you, which is pretty rad. Each app has a slightly different way of allowing you to organize your saves, although all have a home tab where you can find your saves in order of most recent.
Like I said before, videos can be saved to all 3 apps, but all are not equal when it comes to saving non-text items. In Evernote: Videos are saved with a link to the webpage. In Instapaper: Videos are saved and are playable within the app on a browser, however if you click the saved video in the app, it will open externally on Youtube.
In Pocket: Videos are saved and playable within the app across devices. Pocket definitely wins when it comes to videos. Evernote is the only one of these applications that supports importing a photo all on its own — not embedded in an article.
You can save screenshots or upload specific photos, add tags or notes to them, put them in certain notebooks, or insert them to previously saved notes. There is a web extension available for all of the apps, but the options that pop up when saving are different for each. For Instapaper: You click, it saves. For Pocket: You click, it saves, but it also comes with a temporary pop-up that allows you to add tags to the saved piece.
For Evernote: By far the most options for saving from the web. With Evernote you can choose the format you want to save the page in:. You also get to designate which notebook you want the save to go into, if you want to add any tags, or add a comment. Let me be super clear, these are nowhere near the only apps that can help you organize your digital stash, but they can certainly help streamline some stuff.
All of that makes me feel that Evernote is the most useful of these apps for organizing digital business items.
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