Instapaper For iOS Goes Free For First Time As Apple’s App Of The Week

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Instapaper, the first service of its kind for saving articles to read later, has gone free in the App Store for the first time ever. It has been discounted before, but this is the first time it has gone completely free.

Why? Apple has named it “App of the Week,” an honor bestowed upon popular apps—you guessed it—once a week. It normally costs $4.

Instapaper was owned by its creator, Marco Arment, for years, but it was recently sold to Betaworks, the same firm that runs Digg. Betaworks released it as a new iOS 7 app back in September, and new features have continually been added since then.

Instapaper Core Features:

– Save most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for the iPhone and iPad screens.
– Store up to 500 articles on your iPhone or iPad, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website.
– Read offline, even on airplanes, subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.
– Send to Instapaper from 150 other iPhone and iPad apps.

Additional Features:

– Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins
– Dark mode and brightness control for night reading
– Automatic Dark and Sepia Mode switching for sunset times in your location
– Sort your list of unread items by popularity, date, article length, and shuffle
– Filter your list of unread items by reading time

– Folders for organization
– Dictionary and Wikipedia lookups
– Tilt scrolling, page-flipping
– Share via email, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Pinboard, Evernote, or other supported apps
– Rotation lock
– Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app
– Search, via in-app purchase

Source: App Store

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