Instapaper announced that they are going independent. As you may recall, Instapaper joined Pinterest in 2016. A few years before that, betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment.
Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013. The ownership will occur after a 21 day waiting period designed to give our users fair notice about the change of control with respect to their personal information.
Instapaper says that not much is changing for the product outside of the new ownership. Instapaper will continue to be built and maintained by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper for the past five years. They plan to continue offering a robust service that focuses on readers and reading experience for the foreseeable future.
With Pinterest’s support, Instapaper was able to rebuild search, introduce an extension for Firefox, make a variety of optimizations for the latest mobile operating systems, and more.