Instapaper Pro is built around such a simple, yet effective concept: let users save web articles for later or offline reading, and present them free of the distractions of ads and animated banners.
It's a premise that works much more often than not, as pages saved to your Instapaper account (through Safari on iPad or iPhone, or any Mac/PC browser) quickly sync to the iPad app, and are displayed as text on a plain background. Similar to the iBooks and Kindle apps, you can alter the display, swapping between multiple font types and sizes, expanding the width of the text, and even using a black background for nighttime reading.
Like the iBooks/Kindle apps, you can alter the font type and size.
Getting started takes only a few minutes, and the app makes it easy to set up the specially coded bookmark on the Safari toolbar on iPad. Whenever you come across an article you want to save for later, simply touch the button and the article will appear the next time you load Instapaper while connected to the Internet. From then on, saved articles are available for offline reading.
Saved articles are displayed in a list and can be starred or archived.
Some articles save oddly, with sidebars and lists of links appearing before the body text, but it's worth weathering some wonky pages to make the most of this very useful and otherwise well-designed universal app.
Instapaper Pro 2.2.3
COMPANY: Marco Arment
CONTACT: www.instapaper.com
PRICE: $4.99
REQUIREMENTS: iPad
Very useful and well-designed.
Some articles are formatted oddly upon saving.
