Comments on: Don’t update your iPhone’s Instapaper to version 2.1

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:25:38 +0000

“Instapaper is a good app, but should cost $0.99.”

“It pisses me off when app developers throw wrenches into upgrades to force people to pay. Sooooooo sleazy!!!!”

The developer is a one-man team doing it as a side job. He created what is arguably one of the most useful and universal iPhone apps on the market (everyone I know who enjoys reading *anything has this app on their phone).

He has the right to charge a fair price for his app and earn the living he rightfully deserves from his excellent work. And he should.

If he made the decision that the free app should be limited and have ads to encourage more people to upgrade to the Pro edition – how else could he have done it? There are no good solutions.

And he can’t just add features to the Pro version to get more people to upgrade, because the beauty of the application is how useful yet laser-focused it is.

I wish this post at the very least included a note about the Pro version.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:57:44 +0000

This app is well worth paying for.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:47:16 +0000

i have version 2.0..is that the good one?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:07:43 +0000

Soooooo glad you posted this. I found the old version in my trash and restored it. I found your note on google after upgrading. I was wondering why the new version limited me to 10 articles.

Thank you for revealing the mystery and providing a solution!!!

Instapaper is a good app, but should cost $0.99. The new e-reader coming out of Apple will have this functionality built in and will likely make it’s way to the iphone for free.

It pisses me off when app developers throw wrenches into upgrades to force people to pay. Sooooooo sleazy!!!!!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:39:04 +0000

I did end up buying it, in support of the developer. However, I’m still using the old free version because I can’t bring myself to resync my massive archive of saved items with the new version.

By: Phil Oye

Phil Oye — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:51:58 +0000

Uh, since you love the application so much, why not just buy the full version?

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:58:05 +0000

There’s a good chance that the old version is still on your computer somewhere. Search your computer for “Instapaper,” and look for a file ending in .ipa that is not version 2.1. (It may be in the trash.) If you’re able to find it, delete the current version from both your iPhone and iTunes. Then drag the old version into iTunes and sync.

Unfortunately, I can’t post the file I have because I think it’s locked to my iTunes account.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:13:52 +0000

Dude! I wish I had read this yesterday. I just assumed it was better, so I “upgraded.”

Is there any way to go back?