Productivity & Organization
Read Later
A smaller Instapaper, for people who don't need Instapaper.
If Instapaper is load-bearing for you, don't switch. You'll find this thinner and you'll be right. Save articles and track read/unread status. It comes with 52 other tools for $19.99/mo — which is the argument, not that it beats a product with a team behind it.
Instapaper
$6/mo
Per year
$72
In the bundle
$19.99/mo
How much does Instapaper cost?
About $6 a month, which is $72 a year, on the plan most individuals end up on. It is what we use in our own arithmetic — the list-price figure on the front page is the sum of these, not a round number we liked.
What do you actually get in VibeBundl?
- Save articles, mark read or unread
- Clean reading list
- Search across everything saved
What do I lose by replacing Instapaper?
Honestly, these. If any of them is load-bearing for you, keep paying — a bundle that costs you a workflow isn't a saving.
- Full article text extraction and offline reading
- Highlights and notes on a passage
- Send-to-Kindle and mobile apps
Is there an open-source alternative to Instapaper?
Yes — Wallabag. If you're happy running and updating your own server, it will take you further than our version will, and it's free. VibeBundl's argument isn't that it's more capable than Wallabag; it's that it's already running, and so are 52 other tools, on one login.
What's the catch?
It's smaller. 53 tools built by one person do not match 53 funded products, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Each one covers the job you opened the original for and stops there.
So the honest pitch isn't “cancel Instapaper”. It's that the next time you need something like it — once, briefly — you already have it, and you don't start another subscription to find out.
Read Later plus 52 more, $19.99/mo
Cancel any time. Keep Instapaper if you need it.