Instapaper vs FairEmail

Allows leaving notes attached to articles and highlighting certain part of the text. Free version of the app is limited to 5 highlights a month.

Instapaper allows you to choose from 14 different fonts, some of which have been designed specifically for the application. You can manually adjust spacing between lines, padding around text and font size to fit your preferences.

Instapaper comes with a build in text-to-speech feature that will read out loud articles. Premium version of the app allows creating playlists.

You can add articles to Instapaper by sending them to a unique email address associated with your account.

Allows for pagination, not just scrolling.

Instapaper includes a dark theme and allows switching to it after a set period in time or gradually over the course of the day.

In addition to allowing you to sort articles by when you saved them, you can also order articles by length or read progress and popularity.

In Pocket, this is a paid function - but Instapaper provides this for free! If a webpage is deleted, it remains in your Instapaper and they even archive pictures of the articles.

Instapaper will play videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources that are embedded in articles, but you have to be online for playback to work.

Instapaper includes Dyslexie a font that helps people with reading problems understand the text better.

If you set your Instapaper profile to be public, your friends will be able to see articles you've liked.

Multiple identities per account, notifications per account or contact.

It is actively maintained. The used libraries are up to date and bugs are fixed quickly.

There are no trackers within the app and trackers sent with mails are disabled by default. This app lets you read and compose emails with your privacy in your very own hands.

Privacy features are excellent.

~ 20 MB.

Supports both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption for total privacy.

Allows to configure maximum size of email downloaded immediately.

Some HTML mails may show different links and link texts, this app however will show you the real link before opening, protecting against phishing and scams

Some domain names may use non-ASCII characters looking similar to the latin alphabet (e.g. some cyrillic characters). This app will show you the punycode representation of the domain, if that is the case and thus protect you against phishing and scams.

Some HTML mails may include ressources that can track you. This app doesn't load them by default, but reformats the text, increasing both privacy and readability.

There are open standards for any email provider to show how an email client should connect to the server. This app supports both RFC 6186 as well as Thunderbird Autoconfiguration standards.

Supports authenticating with the mail server using OAuth, thus increasing security.