Stashr vs Instapaper
Instapaper is one of the best article readers around, with a clean text view, highlights, and a Premium archive that keeps article text even if the page goes offline. What it does not do is touch your social saves: it has no Instagram, TikTok, or Reddit library, and saving is manual. Stashr captures all four platforms the moment you save and keeps a copy of the text and images.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Stashr | Instapaper |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time auto-capture | ||
| Permanent copy, survives deletion | ||
| Platforms covered | ||
| Bulk-import your backlog | ||
| AI auto-tagging | Yes | No |
| Collections & filters | Yes | |
| Search by meaning | Yes | |
| One unified library | Yes | |
| Media gallery | Soon | No |
| Ask your library | Soon | No |
| MCP connector | Soon | No |
| Pricing | 14-day free trial, then $8 to $10/mo | Free; Premium $5.99/mo or $59.99/yr |
Pricing
Stashr
Hobby $8/mo or Pro $10/mo, dropping to $6 and $7.50 billed yearly. Includes a 14-day free trial.
Instapaper
Free tier with unlimited article saves, sync, folders, and 5 highlights a month. Premium is $5.99/month or $59.99/year and adds unlimited highlights, full-text search, a permanent archive of article text, and text-to-speech. Student plan $3/month.
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The verdict
If you mostly save long-form articles to read later, Instapaper is hard to beat: a beautiful text view, highlights, and a Premium permanent archive of article text. But Instapaper does not touch your social saves. Stashr auto-captures the posts you bookmark on X, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok, keeps a permanent copy of their text and images, and adds AI tagging and semantic search across everything. Many people will happily use both: Instapaper for reading, Stashr for everything they save elsewhere.
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The full memory layer for everything you save online. Auto-captured, AI-tagged, and findable in plain English.
Starts with a 14-day free trial.
