Estimated from the grossing charts of Oct 21, 2026 in the 53 countries we track, and ratings growth on the App Store.
From our daily snapshots of every grossing chart and daily ratings counts.
| Sep 24, 2026 | $12.6K a month |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $12.6K a month |
| Sep 26, 2026 | $12.6K a month |
| Sep 27, 2026 | $15K a month |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $12.6K a month |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $13.5K a month |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $12.6K a month |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $13.5K a month |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $13.5K a month |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $14.9K a month |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $14.9K a month |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $15K a month |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $15K a month |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $19.8K a month |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $22K a month |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $22.2K a month |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $23.5K a month |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $23.5K a month |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $23.9K a month |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $185.6K a month |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $216.8K a month |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $179K a month |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $147.6K a month |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $95.6K a month |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $80.8K a month |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $81.8K a month |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $104.7K a month |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $76.6K a month |
| Oct 22, 2026 | not in a grossing chart |
| Oct 23, 2026 | not in a grossing chart |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 6.7K ratings |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 6.7K ratings |
Measured from the store, not estimated.
From the latest 451 reviews on the United States App Store, Jan 29, 2017 to Oct 19, 2026: 31% are 1 or 2 stars. Open a theme to read what people wrote.
30 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Worth a subscription: probably not if Instapaper can't improve the quality of its output.
★★★★★ I paid for premium, too, so i feel like a rube who just wasted his money.
★★★★★ In order to read entire articles from the NYT in Instapaper, I signed in with my NYT subscription info.
24 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Serious problems synching with the Economist app. Some articles do not appears. The ones that do, cannot be read because only the headline is present.
★★★★★ In case the developers are reading this… I'm on MacOS and I would have rated Instapaper through your app (Setting → Rate Instapaper) but that menu item doesn't work either.
★★★★★ It glitches though as it hangs when it is synced with my car and I get a call.
24 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ The new version brings smaller fonts, and ruined the sculpt to select a random article through an iOS shortcut
★★★★★ But with the new “AI” voices update, the overall user experience has degraded.
★★★★★ Not only does the new version hang when transitioning to and from the car but you have to get all the way out, delete finished stories and create a new playlist but you still can't forward to the next story without…
22 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Serious problems synching with the Economist app.
★★★★★ I thought maybe I was too optimistic about my sync settings, so I set the sync settings to the lowest amount.
★★★★★ It glitches though as it hangs when it is synced with my car and I get a call.
13 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Instapaper's support website provides two methods of contacting support: Twitter/X and an email account.
★★★★★ Customer support for premium subscribers is almost non existent, being incredibly slow and ineffective.
★★★★★ Not all apps support share sheet save to Instapaper, plz bring it back.
13 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ The bad news: there is no way to close the dialog and return to the article.
★★★★★ And there's no way to disable this.
★★★★★ Half the articles had various amounts of text missing from the end.
12 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Previous update caused app to often freeze when scrolling through articles, and after latest update the app won't open at all anymore (stuck on loading screen)
★★★★★ The speak feature freezes on most articles after reading a few lines of text.
★★★★★ This update now crashes when launched.
9 of the 1 and 2 star reviews.
★★★★★ Every time I try to swipe to turn the page it turns on the useless AI summary feature.
★★★★★ Latest update is rendering the app useless.
★★★★★ Items can either be in folders or archived, so folders are useless for finding read articles.
44 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.
★★★★★ Saving articles is so fast and easy and this app does it so well.
★★★★★ From the app it's easy to share content via email or text.
★★★★★ Their interface is a little more user friendly compared to the original websites though.
33 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.
★★★★★ The new UI makes affordances clearer.
★★★★★ Their interface is a little more user friendly compared to the original websites though.
★★★★★ Speaking of looks, the minimal design of Instapaper is everything you need in this app.
22 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.
★★★★★ The one or two times I've had an issue the developers, who are maybe three people, are courteous, friendly, and extremely helpful.
★★★★★ Incredibly useful, beautifully designed and easy to use.
★★★★★ for those who have to write and source papers, its a life saver...
15 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.
★★★★★ The cost per year to store some small text files, I just don't see how the cost is worth it.
★★★★★ I'm so impressed by how easy it works, and I only have the free version.
★★★★★ Their premium features are very few but worth it if you like them and they don't nag you to upgrade.
15 of the 4 and 5 star reviews.
★★★★★ Hoping Kobo support comes soon as that will make this fine app just so much finer for those among us reading on a Kobo.
★★★★★ Might even consider paying just to support them.
★★★★★ Responsive developer added support for Metafilter posts!
Found by matching words and phrases in the reviews, not read by a person. A review can count toward more than one theme.
Latest reviews, United States App Store.
I’ve been using this app for years and it’s flawless. I like to save articles and I don’t have time to read so I could go back and have them all organized with tags. Apps these days are a fortune, this app is more than fairly priced and worth the money. I had the Pocket app to take downloads from online, then they got rid of the app and I lost all of my saved recipes and everything. It’s one of my top 10 favorite apps I have.
wonderful to have a text to speech CarPlay app … Transfer’s text and articles very well and easy to access when most convenient, such as driving, however, the voices are very robotic and not smooth… very hard to listen to the articles
One of the most handy apps
Could you find a way to arrange my articles alphabetically
The only request I would have is to provide a way to quickly scroll back up to the top of an article.
Instapaper mostly works great! I often use it to transfer articles to my Kobo. It often misses images, which isn’t usually a big deal. It usually fails to import academic articles, especially those that I have access via a redirect to my University’s library. It also tends to split lines in half after the first few pages of reading. It will show the top half of the letters in a line on one page, and then the bottom half of those letters on the next page. Other than these relatively small issues, it is working well for me!
Same category, earning about as much.
HuffPost Italia$24K a month EST
il manifesto$24.1K a month EST
L'Aisne Nouvelle: info & vidéo$24.1K a month EST
NT News: Darwin & NT Local$23.9K a month EST
Stiftung Warentest$24.2K a month EST
The Hindu ePaper: English News$24.3K a month EST
East Anglian Daily Times$24.4K a month EST
The Ken$23.6K a month EST
Apple Search Ads this app ran in the last 90 days, from Apple's public ad repository.
Where this app is buying and earning its users. Each link opens pre filtered.
Most repeated terms in the listing. Highlighted ones also appear in the title.
Released Feb 12, 2019. Current version shipped Oct 21, 2026.
Prices, ranks and reviews are per country. Revenue above is already worldwide.