The app does have a command to add and remove links without using the browser, and the functionality is also available in the bottom toolbar as “+” and “-” buttons. You can drag & drop items from the Unread view to, say, a folder in Instapaper, but you can’t move an item from Instapaper to Pocket. For Pocket, it also contains content-specific filters for images and videos. ReadKit organizes configured accounts in a sidebar that contains top-level sections such as Unread, Favorites (liked items in Instapaper), and Archives, as well as folders created to manage articles. You can archive items and also move them across folders, with changes reflected almost instantly (if you have an Internet connection) on Instapaper’s website and other clients. I mainly used ReadKit with Instapaper, and I noticed how the app correctly fetched unread and liked items, allowing me to star entries and make them show up on Instapaper’s Liked section on the website. I’ve been testing ReadKit for the past week, and while not perfect yet, it is by far the best desktop experience for the services that I use – Instapaper (for text) and Pocket (for videos).įirst and foremost, ReadKit is stable and responsive: unlike other apps I’ve tried in the past months, ReadKit didn’t crash, and, aside from a minor hiccup that occurred on first launch when fetching my entire Instapaper archive, it performed reliably. The app costs $1.99, and if you want to use it with Instapaper, you’ll need the $1 monthly subscription. ReadKit, in fact, works with Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability, therefore covering the most popular third-party read later services. ReadKit, a new app by Webin released today, is – finally – a solid piece of software for those who have been looking for a desktop version of their favorite read later service. Words looks decent when it’s focused on text (generated by the Instapaper parser) in full-screen mode, but everything else is pretty buggy, unstable, and unfinished. Unfortunately, while promising, Words isn’t there yet. Looking around for alternatives that would work with the service I use on a daily basis for text articles, Marco Arment’s Instapaper, I was not impressed with Words: I guess a desktop app can be seen as an add-on, a companion to the main experience. I “catch up” on articles and videos with my iPhone and iPad. I’ve got used to thinking of “read later” as a inherently mobile state of mind. I’m still not completely sold on the overall concept of a desktop read-later app. After Michael Schneider, creator of Read Later, joined the Pocket team to release the official Pocket app for Mac, I wondered if there was a real need for a “read later” (lowercase) application for the desktop:
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