Public Folders, Custom App Icons, and More

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Today we’re launching public folders to make it really easy to share a list of articles.

On the iOS app or instapaper.com, you can create a public folder or edit an existing folder and change the privacy to public. To edit an existing folder on iOS, just swipe left on the folder, and tap Edit.

Public folders have unique icons, so you can easily tell which of your folders is public or not. To share a public folder on web, you can copy the link in your browser. On iOS, open the folder, tap the overflow menu (three circles), and press the “Share” button.

You can see a few examples of public folders here:

Custom App Icons

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In Instapaper 8.1, we’re launching Custom App Icons for Sepia, Gray, and Dark themes. To change the App Icon go to Instapaper Settings, and tap the App Icon row.

Custom App Icons are only available with Instapaper Premium. You can sign up for Instapaper Premium at instapaper.com/premium or directly from iOS app settings.

Read Now

After saving an article, you can now click on the Instapaper logo to read it now. Read Now is available on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Due to technical limitations on iOS, we won’t be able to add support for Read Now.

Bug Fixes

We’ve also fixed a variety of bugs and issues in Instapaper iOS 8.1, including:

  • Improving reliability of saving from share sheet with poor Internet service
  • Articles displaying as blank after reopening the app following a period of inactivity
  • Not being able to exit speed reading

Thanks again for writing in with your feature requests and bug reports, we really appreciate hearing from you. If you have any feature requests, questions, and/or issues, please let us via email at support@help.instapaper.com or via @InstapaperHelp on Twitter.

– Instapaper Team