Instapaper

If you’ve ever opened an article and thought, I want to read this later when I have time, you already understand why read-later apps exist. Instapaper is one of the cleanest options because it turns cluttered web pages into a calm, readable view and lets you save articles for offline reading.

This one matters even more now that Pocket has been shut down, because a lot of people used it for years without thinking about it. Instapaper is an easy replacement to recommend in 2026 because it still nails the core experience, which is that you have an article you want to read, you save it, clean it up, and read it later.

Instapaper also works well for light research. This is because it lets you highlight a few lines, save notes, and you’ve got a mini archive of useful sources you can return to later without hunting through your history.