The problem I have with all these people isn't that they are backing Marco/Instapaper, it's the fact that they are trying to make it seem like subscribing to Readability is pointless and/or doesn't benefit anyone but the people behind Readability. It's about Readability swooping in and kicking Instapaper in the nuts, and Marco's friends stepping in to help a brother out …nothing more. It's not about Readability sending money to publishers. Now, lets get to the real reason behind the negativity. I feel better knowing that I'm helping replace any ad revenue lost due to my scraping of a site's content. It's the sole reason I switched to Readability and became a subscriber. Second, what exactly is the downside of offering publishers a little bit of money versus nothing? It's the equivalent of a tip jar, and in my opinion it's brilliant. If you don't want money from them, you won't get money from them. This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Why? Well, supposedly people are upset with the way Readability collects money on behalf of publishers. I think both apps are great! This post isn't about which app you should use, it's a response to the negativity surrounding Readability's subscription service.Īs soon as Readability hit the App Store there was a flurry of articles and blog posts condemning the service. The fact is, I didn't switch to Readability because I like the app better. If Readability hadn't come out with a native iOS app, I'd definitely still be using Instapaper today. I think the service is wonderful, and I think Marco is a cool guy. Trying both the services is the best way to know the right one for you.First, I want to say that I have been an Instapaper user for several years. Instapaper and Readabilty are great apps for no-nonsense reading, but the 3rd party apps supporting Instapaper makes it better, but that’s more of my personal opinion. You can also organize the saved articles using folders, which isn’t available in Readability. If you ever want to quit Instapaper, you can download the list of articles you saved for reading later, along with you, similar to Google Takeout. On the other hand, Readability doesn’t just have a dedicated iOS app, which is a total let down, although there are addons and bookmarklets. Instapaper is available on iOS, web, also available as a bookmarklet. Readability has released API very lately, apps using it are The Telepaper, Readit for Android and a few more. Instapaper is integrated into more than 50 popular iOS apps including Feed Readers, Twitter clients, for example if you use Hootsuite on your iPhone, you can send the links which you come across in your timeline directly to Instapaper. There are tons of apps which use Instapaper’s API, notable are Readnow for Mac, Instafetch for Android and many more. One thing you may miss when you navigate from the article page, is the sharing buttons, but with Readability you can even share the article on Facebook and Twitter.Ĭompared to Readability, Instapaper doesn’t offer much customization. If you use Kindle to read articles, then you can also use the ‘Send to Kindle’ feature. Readability has a really clean interface allowing you to customize the background color, spacing between the letters and font size. Interface plays a big role, after all, these two apps are intended to make an article clutter free and put it on a neat interface for comfortable reading. Ever came across a long article and wish you could read it in a ad-free, customizable place? Instapaper and Readability do just that, and that’s what today’s showdown is about.
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