Feedly
feedly.com
Collects the sites you follow into one reverse-chronological list you control
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instapaper.com
Saves an article for later and strips it down to just the text.
Save from a browser extension, a share sheet or an email address, and Instapaper extracts the article text into a clean reader with adjustable type, highlights and notes, synced across web, iOS and Android. Its extraction is still the most reliable of the read-later services, and the API is documented and stable. It has survived Betaworks, Pinterest and a management buyout since 2008, which is more than most of its competitors managed.
Questions
A genuinely usable free tier with paid plans for volume or team features. The free tier caps notes at five a month, and full-text search plus the permanent copy of saved articles are Premium features.
Yes. Instapaper sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
The free tier caps notes at five a month, and full-text search plus the permanent copy of saved articles are Premium features.
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