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No hey this is Ellis with the verge checking out Instapaper for Android you open up instapaper for android you'll notice that it looks a lot like Instapaper for iPhone even though it's not made by Marco Arment himself you'll see read later liked archive you won't see friends which shows what your friends are reading and you won't see the feature which shows what other people are reading that's popular on insta paper you also won't see web which helps you find things online and search which helps you search through your things so from this screen you can hit the plus sign to add folders you can remove those folders just as easily using that pencil up there if you want to dig further into the settings menu while you're reading you'll notice that it looks pretty much the same as the one on the iPhone there's margins there's line spacing there's text size there's dark mode for reading at night there's brightness and you have the usual selection of fonts when you go into Instapaper for Android settings menu you'll see that most of the things you're accustomed to on iOS are here like relator limits for how many articles you'll download locally the most glaring omissions are there's no full screen in instapaper for android and there's also no eye book style pagination where the page turns over which is a really important feature for a lot of people so you can see that here when you're scrolling through an article you really don't have much of a choice besides to just swipe through it and you also can't go fullscreen so you see the top menu bar as well as these two bars down here this one doesn't do anything since there aren't any settings menu for this specific screen as you might expect Instapaper has integration with the androids share menu so it hop down to instapaper and you see saved so there's no need to install a browser bookmarklet like you would on iOS if you want to copy a URL from another site Instapaper on android will not recognize that you have a URL pasted into your clipboard the iOS version does do that which is a nice feature Instapaper for android also works on 7-inch tablet and as you can see has a really similar interface to the iPad interface it's just thinner as you can see into one column if you're on a 10-inch tablet they're actually more boxes since you have more screen real estate to use just like on your iPads so if you turn it into portrait orientation screen flips and it's a little narrower but you can browse through just like you'd be used to instapaper for Android costs $2.99 in Google Play the Android app store and Barnes & Noble's Nook app store it's a pretty good 1.0 release but it's still missing some of the key features that make reading using Instapaper so special like sepia tone fullscreen pagination which is huge friend recommendations and most of all just the fact that the UI chrome is stuck on the screen and you can't go fullscreen which is really kind of the thing that Instapaper does best we have been reassured by developer mobilux that these features are coming and the app will soon be on par with its iOS counterpart until then it's a better option than any of the other Instapaper clients for Android