![]() Instapaper dates back to around Pocket’s time, originally developed by Marco Arment while he was also employee number 1 at Tumblr, and before he created his popular Pocket for macOS provides a compact, somewhat graphical list. Click or tap an article, and it appears in simplified form that you can adjust for font, size, and background contrast.īonus: The mobile app uses text-to-speech to read articles aloud at the free tier.īottom line: Solid, reliable, and easy to add items to. You can browse articles or search against text with a premium subscription. Reading articles: You can use the macOS app, iOS app, or the Pocket web app to read saved articles. You can optionally add tags or tap to dimiss the sheet that explains the page was saved. In Safari-or any app that offers a page-like output-tap Share and tap the Pocket icon. Save an article in mobile Safari: With the Pocket app installed, a Share extension becomes available. (You can opt to use a bookmarklet instead of the extension, but it has fewer features.) After a few seconds of inactivity, the dialog disappears and the page is saved to your account. With the premium tier, Pocket suggests tags. A small dropdown dialog box appears in the windows upper-right corner that lets you add tags to categorize the entry. On a page you want to save, click the icon. Save an article in Safari for macOS: Install the Pocket extension. The current version of Stacks for Windows Phone can be had in the Windows Phone Store here for US $1.99 and you’ll get the update to 3.0 when it arrives out of beta.Pocket’s iOS app offers text-to-speech audio even with its free tier. The app is available from the Windows Store at a cost of US $1.99. If you are a keen reader and want an Instapaper client that works great and looks good on your Windows Phone and Windows 8 devices then you need to grab Stacks For Instapaper. We are lead to believe that there is a whole heap more coming to both versions so this represents a good app investment. The Instapaper developer is actively recommending Stacks for Windows 8 use and it’s easy to see why. While it would be nice to see, we have to say that with clients this good there really isn’t much need. That does not look set to change anytime soon as we have been in touch with them today. There are currently no plans to develop a first party Instapaper client for Windows Phone or Windows 8. Visually the Windows Phone 8 app looks great and performance is excellent to boot. What this means is that when you switch between the two it is both familiar and easy to adjust to. The Windows Phone 8 app has also received a great series of updates bringing it into line with the look of the Windows 8 version. ![]() It is hard to see why you would want this but it’s nice to see the function exists just in case. Stacks also has the ability to work while in snapped view meaning you can keep reading while you’re doing something else. ![]() When you are reading an article you only need swipe down at any time to reveal the apps controls for reading and so forth. Performance of the app is very good and it moves along nice and quickly on the Microsoft Surface tablet, scrolling is smooth and the app is responsive. As you read through an article there is a progress indicator to show you how far you have got, when you are done reading it the tile becomes grayed out. The experience of using the app is pretty slick, the layout is clean and you’ll be presented with your read it later list as tiles with a paragraph of text in preview for each. The magic of this comes from Windows 8 but it’s a nice implementation of sharing from the developer and very welcome indeed. If you happen to use a newsreader client like News Bento or Nextgen Reader then you can do exactly the same thing, swipe over, share with Stacks and it will be available in your reading list. There is simply no need for browser plug-ins or fiddly favourite’s links. ![]() In Windows 8 you simply swipe in from the right to show the charms bar and you’ll have the ability to share a webpage you want to read later with Stacks for Instapaper. Windows 8 brings with it some awesome new features and one of those is for an app to establish a sharing contract. Add articles from almost anywhere in Windows 8 - just share with Stacks for Instapaper. ![]()
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