When comparing Webcull vs Instapaper, the Slant community recommends Instapaper for most people. In the question“What are the best ways to organize bookmarks?” Instapaper is ranked 12th while Webcull is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose Instapaper is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Imports bookmarks without losing the directory structure
Built-in browser bookmark managers use folders but lack lots of other functionality. Meanwhile, every other solution that improves on bookmark management lack folder structures all together opting just for tags. WebCull maintains all your bookmark folders exactly the way they were in your browser and also leverages tags. All while providing a richer experience than built in bookmark mangers.
Pro Searches with content of website
Every bookmarking tool out there lets you search for bookmarks. So how does WebCull innovate anything here? It allows you to search within the content of the sites of your bookmarks. This means WebCull is also sort of a search engine. Every other bookmark manager will let you search for tags, they will also search the website title and URL for keywords. But for someone who isn't meticulous at remembering tags, links go missing because more often than not, the URL and title doesn't contain the keyword you're looking for. WebCull fixes this problem by providing keywords sourced straight from the website URL as a baseline for your search results. So now when you search your bookmarks the results that come up are far superior without needing to up your tagging game.
Pro Works from every browser and device
No need to download a new application or log anyone out of anything to access your bookmarks from anywhere. WebCull works from the... you got it, web! So any web browser you got access to will load your bookmarks without a problem. You'll also never need to log anyone out since it allows multiple side-by-side account sessions.
Pro Improved user interface and shortcuts
The WebCull user interface is like no others, there is almost no way to describe it through words. You have to check it out for yourself or look at the video on the WebCull homepage.
Pro Annotation tools
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.
Pro Excellent typography choices
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.
Pro Allows listening to articles
Instapaper comes with a build in text-to-speech feature that will read out loud articles. Premium version of the app allows creating playlists.
Pro Articles can be emailed to Instapaper
You can add articles to Instapaper by sending them to a unique email address associated with your account.
Pro Pagination
Allows for pagination, not just scrolling.
Pro Awesome offline mode
Pro Can look up words in a dictionary and Wikipedia
Pro Can be set to switch to dark mode based on time of day
Instapaper includes a dark theme and allows switching to it after a set period in time or gradually over the course of the day.
Pro Rarely seen organization options
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.
Pro Free archiving of deleted webpages
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.
Pro Can playback inline video
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.
Pro Has a font designed for readers with Dyslexia
Instapaper includes Dyslexie a font that helps people with reading problems understand the text better.
Pro Includes optional social features
If you set your Instapaper profile to be public, your friends will be able to see articles you've liked.
Cons
Con Web two point ow
Cause I don't like all these webby two point 0 doohickies clogging up all the innertubes.
Con Became a paid service again
Most functions, like search, became premium.
Con Basic search not free
Basic search for link title or website too is part of the premium.
Con Embedded images and videos are sometimes ignored
Instapaper sometimes saves articles without images or videos.
Con Only supports English
It only supports English, and not Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
Con Tags not implemented
Con Search functions return random articles
The search function is very slow and does not provide accurate results. The user can not filter or reorder the search results, or search the archive or annotated articles.