![]() Whereas playing at faster speeds usually means a loss of audio quality, Smart Speed maintains it beautifully – a real nice surprise. But guess what – he appears to have nailed it. As Arment says himself in a blog post announcing the launch of Overcast, such a feature is nothing new. The first of these is Smart Speed, which shortens the audio by eliminating silences. Its clean, simple design is likely to appeal to many users yet to find a decent podcast player, with a couple of impressive stand-out features helping to set it apart from the plethora of competing players. Overcast is a new podcast app for iOS, brought to you by Instapaper creator Marco Arment. It seems to be a wash there.įor my own personal conclusion, I like Instapaper more, but Pocket works well enough. When it does transcribe the page down, it seems to include less non-article stuff(social media links, etc.) than Instapaper does. While I haven't done direct comparisons, it seems to me that Pocket falls back on displaying the original webpage more often when the site isn't a normal blog or news article. Neither platform is perfect with regards to transcribing articles. The web experience is mostly equal, although Instapaper looks cleaner and still has more font options available than Pocket. No Android devices, so no clue how it works on that platform. Pocket does have a nice feature in the app where it can refresh the article, in case you know what you're reading is outdate. Both can have links added by an iOS share sheet, which is convenient. Pocket's app shares links as redirects, so everything shows up as a shorthand /nnnnnn type of link. I also like that when you share links from the Instapaper app, it sends the actual link. A ton of font options that don't rely upon paying the Premium subscription, and the UI is less obtrusive. I've been using Pocket the last few months after having used Instapaper for a few years.įor iOS, I find the Instapaper app to be a lot better than Pocket. This means there is no truly offline reading experience since I’d have to have access to the Pinboard website if I want to read a cached link. ![]() For example, the article caching features that it provides is web-only and isn’t available through the API so no third-party app can integrate it. It cares about my privacy, which is very important to me, and has the features I need for a bookmarking service. It’s unstable and its share extension isn’t as flexible as Pinner’s. I’d also expect for $9.99 plus a $1.99 for “Premium Fonts” Pushpin for Pinboard to be excellent but it isn’t. ![]() This also means no ad blocking or other protections and functionality offered by the SafariViewController feature in iOS. One of the apps I tried (Pinswift) still opens all links in an embedded web view, which means I couldn’t easily log into any sites because I’d have to copy and paste the credentials and OTP manually (NYTimes, WaPost, GitHub, etc). He is completely silent.Īll the other iOS apps I’ve tried are laughably crippled. I’ve tried sending him emails and hit him up on Twitter. Also the Pinner developer never responds to any support requests. The iOS 9 version’s share extension still has a few bugs that completely block the third-party apps’ UI when adding URLs. (Using iOS 10 isn’t an option for me for now). The only decent one, Pinner, decided, inexplicably, to drop iOS 9 support as soon as iOS 10 was released. Unfortunately there are no good iOS apps for it.
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