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Instapaper 3.0 is here

155 points by jamesjyu 16y ago

statictype 16y ago
I don't see it in my Updates section. Do I have to download a new copy even if I bought the original?
- seanieb 16y ago
  "As usual, Instapaper 3.0 is a free upgrade to anyone who has ever bought the paid app. For new customers, it’s only $4.99 for the universal iPhone and iPad app."
- ptomato 16y ago
  Probably hasn't propagated yet. It'll take an hour or two most likely.
- starnix17 16y ago
  If you search for Instapaper and re-download you'll get 3.0. It seems that the updates section has a little bit of a delay.
seanieb 16y ago
I love Instapaper, partially because its a fantastic product and partially because of the guy that's developing it. What Marco has done represents my goals as a 'hacker', I cant wait to have my own Instapaper some day.
Nemisis7654 16y ago
I use Instapaper all the time to save things to read...but have an Android phone. When is the Android version coming?
- ljf 16y ago
  Plenty of instapaper android readers, I use everpaper, though would be happy to chip in for an offical version as its so useful.
- julianz 16y ago
  While you're waiting, try EverPaper.
  - DanielRibeiro 16y ago
    I found IPaper to be much faster and a better UX overall.
- Nemisis7654 16y ago
  Thanks guys. I will check those out.
shantanubala 16y ago
Out of curiosity: Instapaper has had a decent amount of success by making stellar apps for iOS (Marco's only source of revenue outside of the "subscriptions", from what I understand). Is this a good strategy? Like, pick a single platform and make the integration as polished as possible? Or is it better to get cross-platform apps that aren't as polished (in a situation like Instapaper)?
- mcav 16y ago
  Things to consider: It's better to gain traction on one platform than to languish on multiple platforms. Android and iOS have two very different userbases; I hear that iOS seems to include more people willing to pay for software than Android. On the other hand, Android has fewer apps. Most importantly, you need to get noticed on at least one platform. If you have a limited amount of resources, you'd be better off focusing on one great product. Once that's done, move to other platforms if that makes sense for your business growth.
- lazerwalker 16y ago
  What's interesting about Instapaper is that Marco is in a way moving towards embracing both models. With his "3rd-party access only for subscribers" model (see http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429 http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429), he can focus on keeping the iOS app polished while letting third-party developers handle writing apps for other platforms. Assuming this actually happens (a big assumption, to be fair), non-iOS platforms will serve as a revenue source by driving subscriptions.
  - ryanwatkins 16y ago
    Have any apps other than Stacks for WP7 been built to this subscription only API?
  - bostonvaulter2 16y ago
    This model sounds like SimpleNote
statictype 16y ago
Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.
- billjings 16y ago
  Same here - I just wish that Instapaper would share on Google Reader. One wonders why the "drink from the firehose" style reader (Reeder) hasn't been merged with the "save for later" style reader (Instapaper). Everyone I know who finds one of those indispensable becomes enamored with the other pretty easily.
  - askedrelic 16y ago
    I'm glad for the new Pinboard integration. My regular flow is to have everything (RSS for blogs with long posts and RSS for simple alert/notification blogs) in Google Reader and filter through it there, only viewing everything once. Anything longer than a paragraph in there goes to Instapaper, to really read later. I sent random links and website I want to save to Instapaper as well and was moving them to Pinboard manually on the website, but this will definitely save me time.
  - jacobbijani 16y ago
    They're probably great because they're both only focusing on one.
- DanielRibeiro 16y ago
  iPaper[1] is a great instapaper client for Android. Yeah, Instapaper is more like a service than an iPhone app. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper
  - redacted 16y ago
    The icon is a direct copy of the iOS app icon, and the app is in violation of Marco's API rules (http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429 http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429). Outright theft? Maybe not. But definitely not kosher. [ Also, the 'developer website' is an inaccessible Chinese social network page. Awesome! ]
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brianwillis 16y ago
>The iPad no longer uses the top and bottom gradient to fade the text out, instead opting for a clean shadow line borrowed from Reeder’s style. Glad to see this. It was irritating to almost-but-not-quite see the first line of text as you scrolled, which sometimes meant you had to scroll back, which sometimes meant you lost your place, which sometimes resulted in hair being pulled out.
rogupta 16y ago
Instapaper is definitely the number 1 reason I use Twitter as my primary news source - and the integration to the Twitter iPhone app is perfect. Seems like a perfect potential acquisition.
gordonbowman 16y ago
Absolutely love Instapaper. Glad to see these native sharing features.
daniel_iversen 16y ago
I absolutely LOOVE instapaper, one of my absolute favorite iPad apps (the rest are here http://bit.ly/hb8l5H http://bit.ly/hb8l5H)! ..agree with everyone that its a true "killer" app for the device. Imagine once Marco and the team starts adding true collaborative filtering based on your past history (and your friends and the broader community of IP users) and suggesting you stuff to read!
kanamekun 16y ago
I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often large swatches of text are repeated in the articles I add to my Instapaper. Finally, when I archive items out of the Editor's Picks, they often re-download again later (maybe I am not understanding how archiving works). Has anyone else run into sorts of issues using Instapaper on the iPhone 4? I hope that 3.0 fixes these issues! Off to download it now. :-)
- guywithabike 16y ago
  I've seen Instapaper crash maybe twice, ever, and I've been using it since it came out. I'm a fairly heavy user. Maybe I'm just lucky? If you still have issues with 3.0, you should get in touch with Marco. Maybe something's out of whack server-side?
- kenjackson 16y ago
  Have you reported the bugs?
peterbraden 16y ago
Big fan talking here, it's how I primarily read long form content (iphone and kindle) This sentence worried me though: >With these great new additions, many customers won’t even >need the bookmarklet anymore. Without the bookmarklet Instapaper stops being useful to me - I have no interest in another source of information, however 'social' or curated that may be. I feel that instapaper is trying to move into the 'sharing cool stuff' space, which is already over saturated, instead of concentrating on it's original stronghold of providing a great consumption experience.
- st3fan 16y ago
  The bookmarklet is completely optional. No?
- haribilalic 16y ago
  I don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.
- ilovecomputers 16y ago
  I thought he was referring to the built-in browser.
- precipice 16y ago
  Marco has mentioned before that the bookmarklet is his biggest support headache. If the current bookmarklet is working for you, there's little reason to take that away; but having some other way for people to get a good experience from Instapaper -- something easier that anyone could use without knowing what a bookmarklet is -- makes tons of sense. He does kill features from time to time, but he always seems to mention that those features were very lightly used. Presumably that's not the case here (since otherwise it has been hard to make the app valuable, before this new feature).
nathanlrivera 16y ago
Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper, was also the former lead developer of Tumblr. It's clear that he has great a sense for UI design. http://www.marco.org/ http://www.marco.org/
agilo 16y ago
I was hoping for pdf support, but I guess I'll have to make do with converting pdf to html for a while...
semerda 16y ago
Instapaper rocks! Thanks for the good news. I'm updating mine to the latest version now :-)
greattypo 16y ago
Does anyone else find themselves wishing that Instapaper could intelligently pull multiple-page articles, like Readability does? You can of course solve the issue by finding the printer-ready version of an article (if there is one), but that extra step feels so unnecessary.. (aside from that quibble, love Instapaper and congrats on the great new release!)
- albertogh 16y ago
  Printful merges multipage articles into a single article. I don't have any promo codes right now, but email me and I'll send you one as soon as the next release is approved.
Derbasti 16y ago
Anyone else annoyed by how the scroll bar in the Instapaper iPad app never seems to behave like you would expect a scrollbar to behave?
- spicyj 16y ago
  How do you mean?
stevederico 16y ago
Looks Great! Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, has a weekly podcast about iOS App Development called "Build and Analyze". Great resource for any level iOS hacker. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze
joebananas 16y ago
I dunno, my "Editor's Picks" subfolder seem to have been replaced by a huge button that starts a web browser. If I wanted to browse the web I would have started Safari, wouldn't I?
emilhajric 16y ago
I really like Instapaper, they seem to be executing the problem of taking photos on your mobile device really well. I dont like long upload time, huge photos nor a cluttered UI. Instapaper gets it. I definitely see them releasing an android-version of instapaper soon. It would be a wasted opportunity if they didn't
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155 points by jamesjyu 16y ago

statictype 16y ago

I don't see it in my Updates section. Do I have to download a new copy even if I bought the original?

seanieb 16y ago
"As usual, Instapaper 3.0 is a free upgrade to anyone who has ever bought the paid app. For new customers, it’s only $4.99 for the universal iPhone and iPad app."
ptomato 16y ago
Probably hasn't propagated yet. It'll take an hour or two most likely.
starnix17 16y ago
If you search for Instapaper and re-download you'll get 3.0. It seems that the updates section has a little bit of a delay.

seanieb 16y ago

I love Instapaper, partially because its a fantastic product and partially because of the guy that's developing it. What Marco has done represents my goals as a 'hacker', I cant wait to have my own Instapaper some day.

Nemisis7654 16y ago

I use Instapaper all the time to save things to read...but have an Android phone. When is the Android version coming?

ljf 16y ago
Plenty of instapaper android readers, I use everpaper, though would be happy to chip in for an offical version as its so useful.
julianz 16y ago
While you're waiting, try EverPaper.
- DanielRibeiro 16y ago
  I found IPaper to be much faster and a better UX overall.
Nemisis7654 16y ago
Thanks guys. I will check those out.

shantanubala 16y ago

Out of curiosity: Instapaper has had a decent amount of success by making stellar apps for iOS (Marco's only source of revenue outside of the "subscriptions", from what I understand). Is this a good strategy? Like, pick a single platform and make the integration as polished as possible? Or is it better to get cross-platform apps that aren't as polished (in a situation like Instapaper)?

mcav 16y ago
Things to consider: It's better to gain traction on one platform than to languish on multiple platforms. Android and iOS have two very different userbases; I hear that iOS seems to include more people willing to pay for software than Android. On the other hand, Android has fewer apps. Most importantly, you need to get noticed on at least one platform. If you have a limited amount of resources, you'd be better off focusing on one great product. Once that's done, move to other platforms if that makes sense for your business growth.
lazerwalker 16y ago
What's interesting about Instapaper is that Marco is in a way moving towards embracing both models. With his "3rd-party access only for subscribers" model (see http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429 http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429), he can focus on keeping the iOS app polished while letting third-party developers handle writing apps for other platforms. Assuming this actually happens (a big assumption, to be fair), non-iOS platforms will serve as a revenue source by driving subscriptions.
- ryanwatkins 16y ago
  Have any apps other than Stacks for WP7 been built to this subscription only API?
- bostonvaulter2 16y ago
  This model sounds like SimpleNote

statictype 16y ago

Instapaper and Reeder are, for me, the 'killer' iPhone apps. When people ask me why I like/choose the iPhone , I point at those 2 apps.

billjings 16y ago
Same here - I just wish that Instapaper would share on Google Reader. One wonders why the "drink from the firehose" style reader (Reeder) hasn't been merged with the "save for later" style reader (Instapaper). Everyone I know who finds one of those indispensable becomes enamored with the other pretty easily.
- askedrelic 16y ago
  I'm glad for the new Pinboard integration. My regular flow is to have everything (RSS for blogs with long posts and RSS for simple alert/notification blogs) in Google Reader and filter through it there, only viewing everything once. Anything longer than a paragraph in there goes to Instapaper, to really read later. I sent random links and website I want to save to Instapaper as well and was moving them to Pinboard manually on the website, but this will definitely save me time.
- jacobbijani 16y ago
  They're probably great because they're both only focusing on one.
DanielRibeiro 16y ago
iPaper[1] is a great instapaper client for Android. Yeah, Instapaper is more like a service than an iPhone app. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper https://market.android.com/details?id=org.hijava.instapaper
- redacted 16y ago
  The icon is a direct copy of the iOS app icon, and the app is in violation of Marco's API rules (http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429 http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429). Outright theft? Maybe not. But definitely not kosher. [ Also, the 'developer website' is an inaccessible Chinese social network page. Awesome! ]

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brianwillis 16y ago

>The iPad no longer uses the top and bottom gradient to fade the text out, instead opting for a clean shadow line borrowed from Reeder’s style. Glad to see this. It was irritating to almost-but-not-quite see the first line of text as you scrolled, which sometimes meant you had to scroll back, which sometimes meant you lost your place, which sometimes resulted in hair being pulled out.

rogupta 16y ago

Instapaper is definitely the number 1 reason I use Twitter as my primary news source - and the integration to the Twitter iPhone app is perfect. Seems like a perfect potential acquisition.

gordonbowman 16y ago

Absolutely love Instapaper. Glad to see these native sharing features.

daniel_iversen 16y ago

I absolutely LOOVE instapaper, one of my absolute favorite iPad apps (the rest are here http://bit.ly/hb8l5H http://bit.ly/hb8l5H)! ..agree with everyone that its a true "killer" app for the device. Imagine once Marco and the team starts adding true collaborative filtering based on your past history (and your friends and the broader community of IP users) and suggesting you stuff to read!

kanamekun 16y ago

I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often large swatches of text are repeated in the articles I add to my Instapaper. Finally, when I archive items out of the Editor's Picks, they often re-download again later (maybe I am not understanding how archiving works). Has anyone else run into sorts of issues using Instapaper on the iPhone 4? I hope that 3.0 fixes these issues! Off to download it now. :-)

guywithabike 16y ago
I've seen Instapaper crash maybe twice, ever, and I've been using it since it came out. I'm a fairly heavy user. Maybe I'm just lucky? If you still have issues with 3.0, you should get in touch with Marco. Maybe something's out of whack server-side?
kenjackson 16y ago
Have you reported the bugs?

peterbraden 16y ago

Big fan talking here, it's how I primarily read long form content (iphone and kindle) This sentence worried me though: >With these great new additions, many customers won’t even >need the bookmarklet anymore. Without the bookmarklet Instapaper stops being useful to me - I have no interest in another source of information, however 'social' or curated that may be. I feel that instapaper is trying to move into the 'sharing cool stuff' space, which is already over saturated, instead of concentrating on it's original stronghold of providing a great consumption experience.

st3fan 16y ago
The bookmarklet is completely optional. No?
haribilalic 16y ago
I don't think the bookmarklet is going away, but even if Marco did get rid of it, the free API would allow anyone to come along and make a new one.
ilovecomputers 16y ago
I thought he was referring to the built-in browser.
precipice 16y ago
Marco has mentioned before that the bookmarklet is his biggest support headache. If the current bookmarklet is working for you, there's little reason to take that away; but having some other way for people to get a good experience from Instapaper -- something easier that anyone could use without knowing what a bookmarklet is -- makes tons of sense. He does kill features from time to time, but he always seems to mention that those features were very lightly used. Presumably that's not the case here (since otherwise it has been hard to make the app valuable, before this new feature).

nathanlrivera 16y ago

Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper, was also the former lead developer of Tumblr. It's clear that he has great a sense for UI design. http://www.marco.org/ http://www.marco.org/

agilo 16y ago

I was hoping for pdf support, but I guess I'll have to make do with converting pdf to html for a while...

semerda 16y ago

Instapaper rocks! Thanks for the good news. I'm updating mine to the latest version now :-)

greattypo 16y ago

Does anyone else find themselves wishing that Instapaper could intelligently pull multiple-page articles, like Readability does? You can of course solve the issue by finding the printer-ready version of an article (if there is one), but that extra step feels so unnecessary.. (aside from that quibble, love Instapaper and congrats on the great new release!)

albertogh 16y ago
Printful merges multipage articles into a single article. I don't have any promo codes right now, but email me and I'll send you one as soon as the next release is approved.

Derbasti 16y ago

Anyone else annoyed by how the scroll bar in the Instapaper iPad app never seems to behave like you would expect a scrollbar to behave?

spicyj 16y ago
How do you mean?

stevederico 16y ago

Looks Great! Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, has a weekly podcast about iOS App Development called "Build and Analyze". Great resource for any level iOS hacker. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze

joebananas 16y ago

I dunno, my "Editor's Picks" subfolder seem to have been replaced by a huge button that starts a web browser. If I wanted to browse the web I would have started Safari, wouldn't I?

emilhajric 16y ago

I really like Instapaper, they seem to be executing the problem of taking photos on your mobile device really well. I dont like long upload time, huge photos nor a cluttered UI. Instapaper gets it. I definitely see them releasing an android-version of instapaper soon. It would be a wasted opportunity if they didn't

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