Instapaper
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Instapaper
Originally created by Marco Arment and later sold to betaworks in 2013, Instapaper has been on my Home screen longer than any other third-party app. Instapaper’s central functionality is simple – it lets you save articles from the web for reading later, preserving text, images, and videos but stripping away ads and other cruft that come along with many webpages. Instapaper is highly customizable for a great reading experience. You can pick from 15 fonts in adjustable sizes and 4 themes, change line spacing and margins, and adjust the brightness of the screen directly from within the app.
These days I use Instapaper for a combination of casual reading, as a place to store research for articles I’m writing for MacStories, and for saving videos to watch later. I use folders to separate the different kinds of articles. You have the choice to delete or archive articles you finish and can even favorite them if you want. Favoriting feeds a recommendation engine that can use the people you follow on Twitter and the contacts on your iOS device to suggest articles liked by those people.