With iOS 5 bringing Reader and Reading List to Safari, we’ve all been keeping our eye on Instapaper to see how they would react to Apple’s remarkably similar service. Today that reaction occurred, with Instapaper 4.0 hitting the app store. This new update completely overhauls the navigation, especially on the iPad version. There’s also in-app Wikipedia lookup, viewable footnotes, multi-select, social browsing, editor’s picks and more.
One of the really interesting new features is pay-to-search. It’s a $1 per month for the subscription, but it allows you to search the full text of all your saved articles on the server side, rather than having to download them locally to do it.
Marco Arment’s blog post does a pretty good job of laying out the changes, but here’s the changelog to give you something of an idea:
- Completely redesigned iPad list interface as a grid with sidebar
- Redesigned iPhone interface with a black-and-white theme
- Multi-select articles in list to archive, delete, or move in bulk
- Search Subscription: the $1/month Subscription from the Instapaper website is now available in the app via In-App Purchase. It’s called Search Subscription, and it adds server-side searching of the *full contents* of every article you’ve ever saved. This replaces the old downloaded-articles-only search in the app.
- Archive and Delete now peacefully coexist everywhere
- App Directory (in Settings) lists apps that integrate with Instapaper
- Hardware brightness control in iOS 5 (brightness now also available on iPhone)
- Draggable scrollbar for quickly jumping through documents
- Article authors, published dates, and site titles are now displayed when available (availability will increase over time)
- “Friends” section can now browse all recent links posted in your Facebook news feed, Twitter timeline, and Tumblr Dashboard
- “Editors” is now fully intergrated and sourced exclusively from Give Me Something To Read
- New settings to customize number of Liked/Archive articles stored on device
- Wikipedia lookups added to newly redesigned “Define” popups
- Footnotes are converted to inline “…” buttons that display in popovers
- [iPhone] Option to hide the status bar while reading (hidden by default)
- [iPhone] Redesigned font (ᴀA) panel to be like iPad’s
- [iPhone] Redesigned Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinboard, Evernote share forms
- YouTube URLs now open in the system’s YouTube app
- New option to use Apple’s dictionary under iOS 5
- Minor improvements to the in-article styling
- Smoother tilt scrolling that works well in all orientations
- New icon
- Added Tweetbot and The Hit List to Share panel
- When updating, the entire table no longer reloads after each article downloads. It now just reloads once after the main update request, showing all (even un-downloaded) articles, and they enable themselves as they get downloaded.
[via MacStores]
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