Instapaper

Instapaper is a web service that saves articles to read it in a web browser on devices with iOS and Android (operating system), as well as Amazon Kindles. After creating a free account, the service stores the web pages that you select via bookmarklet, and presents the articles contained therein at a minimum, for reading layout that is optimized. The service was founded in 2008 by Marco Arment and had in 2011 about 2 million users.

2013 sold a large part of Arment Instapaper beta Works.

History

Instapapers bookmarking website, the " Read Later " bookmarklet, and the article reading view were launched in late 2007 and went on 28 January 2008 online. Its simplicity was quickly praised by the press, including Daring Fireball and TechCrunch.

Instapaper is profitable and has not received venture capital. While most features are available free of charge, generates the iOS app, a $ 1 / month subscription for advanced features - eg full -text search - and advertising on instapaper.com revenue.

Instapapers free iPhone app ( no longer available ) with offline reading capability was one of the first apps on the App Store on July 12, 2008. Paid Instapaper app, renamed later in Instapaper Pro, a little later appeared on 26 August 2008 and brought " tilt scrolling ", which automatically moves the text when you can easily turn the iPhone or down.

Functions

A function " automatically send to Kindle " has been added on March 8, 2009. The Kindle feature has been used by the end of 2011 more than 60,000 readers.

The Instapaper iPad App launched to the U.S. launch of the iPad on April 3, 2010 and was received very positively.

On 10 March 2011 the 3.0 version of the app was released, which added social sharing and browsing features. In the course of 2011, the version 4.0 was released, the full text search for the user took that had the $ 1/Monat-Abo completed.

Give Me Something To Read

On June 1, 2008 Instapaper started with "Give Me Something To Read" ( "Give me something to read "), a website that daily long, high-quality products showed that came from the mostly stored articles in Instapaper.

Instead of publishing popular articles automatically, as do classic social news websites, is "Give Me Something To Read" curated. Marco Arment was the editor in the first year. On 27 July 2009, Arment Richard Dunlop -Walters as a part-time contractor to take over as editor. Since March 2011, Dunlop -Walters Instapapers is only employee besides Arment.

Selected for " Give Me Something To Read " articles are listed on the Instapaper website as "Editor 's Picks " and in the iOS app in the " Editor " section.

On March 22, 2012 " Give Me Something To Read " was renamed "The feature".

Criticism

Instapaper as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Macworld, and Wired was very well received by various publications, was added.