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Pinterest could have killed read-it-later service Instapaper, but instead the company made it free.

A look at the best educational apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.

So, you've downloaded iOS 9, now what? Update all your apps, of course.

A trio of popular media apps received updates Friday, with live broadcasting app Meerkat gaining upgrades to compete with Twitter's Periscope, while Vine moves to 720p video and Instapaper adds Instant Sync and Twitter "textshots."

Developers have only started to roll out iOS 8-optimized updates, but here's a first look at that are putting the new software to great use.

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. If Rooster works as intended, you'll never have an excuse not to read a book again. Plympton, a digital publishing startup with a focus on serialized fiction, unveiled a new iPhone app on Monday called Rooster, which curates suggestions for books to read and then pushes the book out to users in timed installments.

Users of popular save-for-later app Instapaper can now stream saved videos directly to their television with Apple's AirPlay, while all-in-one document management app Documents has been redesigned with a flat, iOS 7-inspired user interface.

From books and magazines, to op-eds and reviews, if the digital onslaught has been responsible for anything, it’s been for delivering a myriad of content. Oftentimes, way too much content, in fact....

Web page saving, syncing and reading app Instapaper is free for limited time after being named "App of the Week," while popular note creation and syncing app Evernote gets updated with business card scanning, presentation mode and UI tweaks.

How many books did you read last year? If your answer is more than one, congratulations: you're more well-read than about 25% of Americans over age 16, according to a 2012 Pew Internet survey. Ironically, as we become more surrounded by words in the digital age, less of us are finding time to actually read them. The good news is that your smartphone or tablet can help.

More and more people read articles on their smartphones, using their work commute on a train or a visit to their doctor's waiting room to catch up on the latest news. But with so much reading on tiny mobile devices, a readers' vision might begin get a little strained. A new app called Wibbitz lets your eyes take a break from text by creating quick video summaries that combine the biggest facts in the article with easily recognizable images.

Instapaper is updating its iPad app today, bringing the tablet version in line with its iPhone update from September. Aside from a few visual tweaks that help it to better fit in with iOS 7, the biggest update is the new sorting options that allow a reading queue to be filtered by article length, date, or popularity. Though Instapaper hasn't changed drastically since it was purchased by Betaworks earlier this year, the startup has now issued updates for every platform that it's on — fairly quickly...

Keeping up with the news used to be pretty simple. You picked up your favorite tabloid or broadsheet newspaper on the way to work, or tuned into a scheduled news bulletin at some point on the radio or TV....

Read ALL the articles! But on your own time. Read-it-later apps have enjoyed a huge jump in popularity as of late, and for good reason -- they allow us to prioritize our time, and choose when and where we want to catch up on the latest Miley Cyrus news. That way, we can at least have a semblance of control over some aspect of our lives. See also: 20 Apps That Look Great on iOS 7 Check out some of the most popular read-it-later apps in the above gallery.

Sometimes an explanation requires more than just words. A new iPhone app called Shadow Puppet lets users generate narrated tutorial videos or photo slideshows straight from their phone. See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Users simply select images from their library, arrange them in the order they wish to share them, and use the phone's voice recorder to narrate the slideshow as it plays.

Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday, and debuted a huge visual overhaul along with it. Heavily textured backgrounds and dark colors are out, while soft gradients, thin sans-serif fonts and bright, bold hues are in. After looking at apps designed for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system immediately seems out of place. Fortunately, many developers spent the better part of the summer preparing their apps to look at home on iOS 7.

Downtime is hard to find, whether you're working 9 to 5, going to school or raising your kids full-time. When you do have that extra hour or two, and you inevitably take out your smartphone, shouldn't you spend the time wisely with a few good apps? SEE ALSO: 12 Apps You'll Use This Weekend You could scroll through Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook until your fingers ache, but we found 10 apps that'll help you relax and enjoy your free time even more.

The iPhone, land of endless choice. First, you’ll want to grab Twitter, Kindle, Facebook, Find My iPhone, Shazam (it's still a magical thing), and Apple’s Remote app for controlling iTunes remotely. But then you get to the hard questions. Which to-do app to get? Which map alternative is worth downloading over Apple’s default? Is there a weather app that offers the perfect balance of hourly updates and animated doppler imagery? What are the best games to get to avoid the family during the inevitable...

This holiday season, you've plugged that very important hole in your life — the one between your smartphone and your computer. Whether it's the 9.7-inch iPad or the new 7.9-inch iPad mini, you're now in possession of a device that not only has a great screen and a fast processor, but one that gains you access into one of the best app stores on the planet. The iOS App Store has an incredible number of great apps and games, but the best ones can be hard to find among the huge selection. Of course you...

If you were lucky enough to receive a new iPad for the holidays this year, we hope you have fun exploring what the tablet has to offer. By now you've probably acquainted yourself with the built-in apps on your iPad, so you may want to reach outside the sandbox for more interesting fare. The App Store, which you can access on your iPad or via iTunes on your computer, features more than 750,000 downloadable apps. If there’s something you want to do on your iPad, chances are good you can find a tool for it...

The new iPhone 5 and its bigger screen is here. And to take advantage of all 4-inches of that taller screen, you need apps that are updated, optimized and ready to look bigger and better than ever. We got 'em all listed for you right here....

Hot on the heels of versions 4.1 and 4.1.1, read-it-later service Instapaper has been updated to version 4.2 on iOS. The main upgrade this time around is an iBooks-style page-turning animation that developer Marco Arment claims is smoother than the Kindle app on the new iPad — sure enough, we tried it out and it's incredibly responsive. Kindle on iPad often stutters and takes a while to react to your gestures in this mode, so it's good to see that Arment has cracked the code, so to speak. Other...

Marco Arment has been pushing out updates to his Instapaper reading app pretty quickly since the new iPad launched. Version 4.1 included Retina display support and additional features like six new fonts and a full-screen reading mode. Now, version 4.1.1 has been released with a number of bug fixes, refinements, and the reinstatement of Instapaper's list view for articles. This view had been previously done away with with the release of version 4.0 in favor of a grid interface, but now users thankfully...

Are you thinking about snapping up a new iPad? The post-PC lifestyle is especially intriguing for business owners who travel on a regular basis and w…

An update to popular read later service Instapaper has been fast tracked in order to bring Retina support to its users. The new version, 4.1, has a nice set of…

Well that was fast. Apple's new iPad just went on sale this morning, and developer Marco Arment has already released a 4.1 update to his popular reading app Instapaper that provides Retina display support for the new device. To make reading even easier on the iPad's 2048 x 1536 display, the free update includes a set of six new fonts, including Proxima Nova, FF Tisa, and the new default, Elena. A full-screen reading mode is now also included, and the app's "Automatic Dark Mode" — which switches the...

We're sure the first thing you'll want to do when you get that new iPad home is give the 2048 x 1536 Retina Display a workout. With that in mind, Apple has curated a section of the App Store especially for apps that have been updated with full high resolution support, like Infinity Blade II. Here are a few of the more notable inclusions; we'll be adding to this list as more updates come in. Note: it appears that not all the apps in Apple's "Great apps for the new iPad" section actually have Retina...

In a sea of free iPhone apps, a few paid options stand out from the crowd. With everyday conveniences based on where you are and what you're doing, here's a handful that...

Instapaper's one of the truly essential apps on iPhone and iPad, so it's a pretty big deal when it gets a substantial update. There are iPhone- and iPad-specific changes a'plenty, but the long and short and whole of it is that this is a great update for a must-have app. You know what Instapaper does. It lets you save online articles to your Instapaper account and sync them to various devices, where you can read them later, in one place. Instapaper 4.0 is a humongaulous update that touches on basically...

The first page. Any iPhone or iPad user knows that the first page is hallowed ground. An app doesn’t make its way there and stay there unless you use it…

Instapaper, a bookmarking tool that lets you save items to read later, released version 4.0 of its apps for iPhone and iPad Monday. We’ve highli…

Marco Arment's popular iOS reading app Instapaper got a huge update this morning with the release of version 4.0 in the iTunes App Store. Visually, the iPad app has been completely redesigned with a new grid UI that shows off headlines and a brief article preview, and the iPhone app has visual tweaks throughout and drops the top menu bar on articles to open up more reading space. The Friends sharing section is now similar to Flipboard, another personalized reading app for iOS. Friends still shows your...

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During Apple’s WWDC Keynote speech it was announced that the Reading List feature of OS X, a ‘read it later’ function that allows readers to tag articles for later consumption…

SPIN Play: It's a leaner, more straightforward take on a digital publication than some we've seen—there are no interactive infographics or crazy control schemes—but that's probably a good thing. If you're familiar with Spin, this incarnation will be familiar: there are some longer features, shorter capsule profiles, album reviews, a handful of movie reviews, and a laundry list of new songs you simply must check out. But what's nice about it is that now you don't have to search those songs out on...

Instapaper, the popular "read it later" app, has added a new social layer in version 3.0. Now you can follow other Instapaper users to see the articles they "like," or browse through hand-picked articles instantly from Editor's Picks. Other nifty features include a "smart rotation lock" to detect accidental rotation, and a new built-in web browser to browse for articles in-app. Update available now.

One prominent App Store developer has found the launch of the Verizon iPhone earlier this month had no discernible effect on software sales, while other events like launches and the holidays caused "huge spikes," suggesting new customers already owned an iPhone or iPod touch.

If you don’t have time to sit down and read all of your favorite websites in an instant, you’ll probably need an app that can save those pages for reading…

You've seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between. Twitter: The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at first, but powerful things often are. Free. Flipboard: A true testament to the iPad's transformative powers, Flipboard scrapes your Twitter and Facebook feeds for links and arranges them in a...

While I started to put together a list of the ten best news apps of 2010, I paused to think about how drastically our consumption of the news has changed…

Well, weren't you a good boy and/or girl this year! That iPad's going to be your favorite new toy no matter what, but here's how to squeeze the most out of it from day one. I'll assume you've successfully removed the iPad from its box, yes? Good. You're a natural! Now trot on over to your computer and plug it in with that fancy 30-pin connector (also, don't lose that connector—it's proprietary to Apple). Once you're hooked up, iTunes will walk you through the registration process. It's pretty...

One of our favorite services and iOS apps, Instapaper, has bumped up the iOS version of the app (the paid one) to 3.2.1 and one of the key new feature…

If you read as many posts and online references as we do here at TNW, you should be using Instapaper and if you’re using Instapaper and have an iOS device,…

Ooh la la! Looks like the Instapaper iOS app, one of our favorite tools, has received quite a makeover and plenty of new features in its latest update: - Article list on iPhone now includes the first few lines of text from articles, like on iPad. On iPad, more text is now shown. The text is downloaded for new articles only: RE-DOWNLOAD ALL ARTICLES in Settings for it to apply to your previously downloaded articles. - Article list now indicates approximate article length and progress with a row of dots,...

There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...

I’m a productivity fanatic. I enjoy wasting my life away reading and researching ways to make my life more efficient. Productivity was the first category of apps I browsed into…

So it's almost the new year, and you want to start being more organized and productive, right? Well we've put together a list of great iPhone apps to help you manage your...