![]() All of Pocket's reading features are included for free. You can start listening to your entire feed of articles in a playlist, a feature that Instapaper charges for. You can adjust the playback speed up to an incomprehensible 4x normal speed, or down to 0.8x speed, in 0.1 increments to perfectly match your listening speed. In my experience, it sounded very natural. Pocket uses its own text-to-speech engine across platforms, so the voice will sound the same everywhere. If you lose internet, you can finish listening to an article, but you'll need to reconnect for each new article. Pocket can read articles aloud as long as you're at least connected to the internet when you start reading an article. The two differ more when it comes to text-to-speech. Both services also download all of your articles so you can read them without an internet connection, which is perfect for reading on the subway or a plane. The choice of fonts differs by platform, so, for example, you'll find more font choices on iOS than on Android. Instapaper has several fonts to choose from, even for free users. Pocket only offers a choice of one serif and one sans-serif font in the free version-paying customers can choose between more. You can choose between light, dark, and sepia color schemes, set custom brightness settings for reading mode, and pick from some font options. When it's time to read, Instapaper and Pocket offer similar basic reading features. If you want to be sure you read everything from a given source, you can watch an RSS feed for new items and automatically save them to Instapaper or Pocket: Having said that, Pocket's app directory looks pretty outdated: the page still prominently features Google Reader, which went the way of the dinosaurs in 2013.īoth Instapaper and Pocket are supported by Zapier, which means you can connect either of them to thousands of apps. That sounds like boring geek stuff, because it is, but the upside is that there are all kinds of applications that support Pocket. If you want actual, two-way syncing, Pocket offers that with Kobo devices (Kobo is Kindle's main competition in the eReader market). Neither Pocket nor Instapaper offers a two-way sync-saved articles are sent to your Kindle, where they're managed separately from your article library. Pocket doesn't directly offer this feature, but the third-party application Pocket2Kindle means you can have the same feature using that service. Instapaper offers a built-in integration for sending saved articles to Kindle devices. That means you can save articles from most places and read your saved articles on most devices. Pocket is built by Mozilla, the same team that builds the Firefox browser, and is actually built into Firefox, but you don't need to use Firefox in order to use Pocket. They also offer browser extensions for common browsers like Chrome and Safari. Each offers apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and the web for reading the articles you've saved. You can save items to Pocket directly from Slack.įor the most part, Instapaper and Pocket support similar platforms. ![]()
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