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Instapaper for iOS Gets Updated With Many New Features

Posted March 10, 2011 at 9:06pm by iClarified · 6777 views
Instapaper for iOS has been updated with many new features including a new social recommendation system, a new storage engine, search, and more

Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!

Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you're commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.


CORE FEATURES:
- Saves most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for the iPhone and iPad screens
- Distraction-free reading environment gets out of your way so you can focus on the content
- Everything you download is then available **OFFLINE**, so you can read whenever you want, even on airplanes or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from internet connections

EXCLUSIVE TO THE PAID EDITION:
- Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins
- Search
- Dark mode for night reading
- Folders
- Dictionary lookups
- Tilt scrolling, page-flipping
- Article sharing via email, Tumblr, or Twitter
- Rotation lock
- Download up to 500 articles on your iPhone or iPad, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website
- Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app

What's New In This Version:
** ALL ARTICLES WILL BE RE-DOWNLOADED AFTER UPDATING! **

- New social recommendation system: you can "follow" other Instapaper users to browse the articles they Like. Find friends via Facebook, Twitter, or your Contacts.
- Browse for articles directly in the app from the web or Instapaper's Editor's Picks.
- "Star" is now called "Like" to clarify its purpose.
- New storage engine with perfect image quality, faster downloads, faster page-opening, and less space usage.
- Search all downloaded articles by title or content.
- Native, offline sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinboard, and Evernote.
- Smart rotation lock offers to disable rotation if a rotation seems accidental.
- Share panel now supports creating tasks in Things.
- New preferences: Reverse tilt-scrolling direction, disable helpful dialogs.
- MANY more big and small fixes and improvements.

- RSS-feed folders can no longer be added, in favor of the other content-finding features which work much better and result in dramatically faster updates.

You can purchase Instapaper from the App Store for $4.99.

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