After a month of extensively using Readitlater on the iPhone, I realized it doesn’t fit my needs.
- Low adoption fro 3rd party apps. Instapaper is still the de facto standard with apps – on the Mac, iPhone, or Android. You’ll be hard pressed to find a good Twitter client in Android which integrates with Readitlater.
- Some titles are not parsed correctly. I need to open the article before I know what it’s about.
- This is a minor problem, but can get pretty irritating: I regularly get a big message box that the content can’t be displayed
- Readitlater is supposed to allow you to view videos. And it doesn’t. At least not yet. True, I usually don’t like to watch videos anyway when I’m reading. But as far as I’m concerned, what you put down on the features list, you better deliver, because that is what people expect to pay for.
Where Readitlater wins:
- Price. Cheaper by a couple of bucks.
- Pretty user interface. What sadly sold me in the first place.
- Built-in browser. Surprisingly, I ended up using Safari more than it’s built-in browser, so this is a no biggie for me.
Thankully, all of the above items I can live without.