Overall, Read Later works well, though I did find that while the program successfully downloaded over 1,000 articles each from my test Instapaper and ReadItLater accounts, it didn't always grab all images for offline viewing. However, if I was online when viewing an article with a missing image, Read Later would generally be able to download the image at that time. Another issue I occasionally ran into: Read Later would display an error that Instapaper "was not able to fetch or parse the article and therefore can't display it," yet the Instapaper website and iOS app displayed that article in full.

Though I still prefer reading saved articles on my iPad, when sitting at my Mac, Read Later offers more features than the Instapaper and ReadItLater websites, as well as a nicer reading environment. And it lets you download your articles for offline viewing, which is convenient if you're traveling with your MacBook, but not your iPad.