![]() Some might prefer to have this view as their first contact with Pocket, but I personally prefer Instapaper’s approach, which allows you to first choose which list or option you would like to access. Pocketįrom the moment you start Pocket, the app guides you step by step through what it is and what it does, making it far more accessible for newbie users, even telling you about some of the other apps that will allow you to save content to Pocket.Īfter the tutorial, Pocket shows you your article list, with each article displaying its title, the URL where it came from and an image to its right. Also, on the article list view at the bottom right of each article you will find a dotted meter that allows you to track your progress on each article at a glance. Other nice details: While on the article list on Instapaper, swipe any article to the left or right and you will have the option to place it in a folder, delete it or share it. At the bottom right of this screen you can find the Settings, which give you access to some of the most interesting options of Instapaper (more on them below). Adding and refreshing lists is equally intuitive, with both options clearly displayed at the top and bottom left of the screen respectively. Nonetheless, all these menu options make articles easy to access and organize. Instapaper’s presentation is on the minimal side, with the entire app being in black and white. From there you can also access your Liked articles, you Archive, your Friends’ reading lists, preselected Features and Search, although search and another feature (mentioned below) require a paid Instapaper account. Once you log in, Instapaper will sync your articles and you will be presented with your general article list, as well as with any other list that you had created in Instapaper in the past. The app fully assumes that you are registered to its web service and that you know your way around it, making it a bit unfriendly for those just starting with it. This is definitely convenient, but it would be nice to have at least a screen or two showing you what Instapaper does before diving into it. The app will then load your unread articles and have them ready for you to read in a short while. Upon opening Instapaper, you will see a screen for you to introduce your login credentials and that’s about it. Presentation and Navigation Menus Instapaper And sometimes I love to do that on a big nice 23 inch screen.Let’s take an in-depth look at both of them across some key areas for read-later services and try to find out which emerges as the best one of them. It was all daunting, but now I can read my articles on my laptop. The Tweetbot was especially a pain, cause I had to add an account for every Twitter account I used. Took me like 2 hours to set everything up.Īdding Pocket accounts to Zite, Flipboard, newly tested Tweetbot. Since Hootsuite only had an option to add articles to Instapaper, seems like it meant for me, that I have to change my whole social media setup. On top of all the differencies, Pocket has more features related to video that I didn’t still see. I was kinda brand loyal towards Instapaper for a little bit too much. #Readlater instapaper matter for free#Now why would I pay for free stuff, I am not sure. Seems that Pocket has free desktop client, free iOS client and on top of it all it, search is free. I believe we used to have search before, it was just imposed as a limit a couple of months ago, while I didn’t pay attention. Now the next imposing limitation is I can’t use search. Okay, big deal, I can’t use the API on it’s own, save it for “premium subscribers”. While this wouldn’t bother me had I not already paid the app itself 5$. Instapaper doesn’t have a desktop client at all, but syncs with ReadLater if you pay 1$ per month. Pocket is free, has a desktop client (ReadLater) which works rather well. Instapaper proved to be financially inefficient to me, when compared to Pocket. The main reason why I am making the switch in my social media setup is actually Instapaper. ![]()
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