Instapaper
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Type of site
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Online bookmarking, saving articles for later reading |
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| Owner | |
| Created by | Marco Arment |
| Website | www.instapaper.com |
| Alexa rank |
 7,121 (March 2015[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | January 28, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
Instapaper is a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest. It allows web content to be saved so it can be "read later" on a different device, such as an e-reader, smartphone, tablet. The service was founded in 2008 by Marco Arment and had about 2 million users as of late 2011.
Instapaper started out as a simple web service, in late 2007, with a "Read Later" bookmarklet and stripped-down "Text" view for articles. When it launched publicly on January 28, 2008, its simplicity rapidly earned accolades from the press, including Daring Fireball and TechCrunch.
In April 2013, Arment sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. Afterward, the service's web interface was redesigned.
On August 23, 2016, Instapaper was acquired by social networking service Pinterest. The service will continue to operate, and the Instapaper staff will work on development for both Instapaper and Pinterest. On November 1, 2016, Instapaper announced that it would discontinue its subscription model and offer its "Premium" features to all users.
Instapaper can be used via a web-based interface, or through mobile apps for Android and iOS. Within a web browser, a "Read Later" bookmarklet can be used to save pages to a user's personal unread queue on Instapaper. Every article is automatically reformatted to remove excessive formatting and graphics.
Instapaper was initially distributed as a paid app. Later, the app became a free service, but with certain features exclusive to a "Pro" version of the app, and later a "Instapaper Premium" subscription, such as ad-free browsing, full-text search, and voice dictation on supported platforms. These features became free for all users on November 1, 2016.
Instapaper's free iPhone app (removed from the App Store on March 12, 2011) with offline reading was one of the first apps in the App Store on July 12, 2008. Instapaper's paid app, then called Instapaper Pro, launched shortly afterward on August 26, 2008 and introduced tilt scrolling, which automatically scrolls a column of text when the device is tilted slightly up or down.
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