RSS to Kindle vs Push to Kindle vs Instapaper: which should send articles to your Kindle?

There are three common ways to get articles from the web onto a Kindle, and people often treat them as interchangeable. They aren’t. Each is built around a different habit, and the right one depends less on features than on how you want reading to happen.

A disclosure first: I build RSS to Kindle, one of the three. I’ve tried to describe the other two the way their own sites do, and each section says who should pick it over mine. Prices were checked on 12 September 2026.

The short version

• You want to send the article you’re reading right now: Push to Kindle.
• You save links all day and want them in one place: Instapaper.
• You want new posts from blogs and newsletters to just show up each morning: RSS to Kindle.

Push to Kindle: one article, right now

Push to Kindle does one thing and does it well. Install the extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge (or use the iOS and Android apps), open an article, click, and a clean ebook version lands in your Kindle library with the ads and clutter stripped out. You don’t need an account to start, and on iOS it can deliver through the Kindle app without you ever looking up your Kindle email address.

It’s entirely on demand: there are no feed subscriptions and nothing scheduled. The free plan covers 10 articles a month; Premium removes the limit for $4.99 a month, or $2.99 a month billed annually. It also sends to Apple Books, PocketBook and Dropbox, which makes it the most flexible choice if you read on more than one device.

Pick it if your reading starts in the browser — a long piece turns up in your timeline and you’d rather read it on the Kindle tonight.

Instapaper: a reading list with a Kindle digest

Instapaper is a read-later service. You save articles from anywhere through the week, and its Kindle digest bundles them up on a schedule you set: daily or weekly, at a chosen time, newest or oldest first, and only once enough new articles have piled up. It’s been independent since Pinterest spun it off in 2018.

The big change is price. Since 19 February 2026, Kindle delivery — both the digest and single sends — is Premium only, at $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Sending to Kobo is still free. Instapaper also doesn’t follow RSS feeds; if you want a blog’s new posts to land there automatically you have to wire it up with IFTTT or Zapier.

Pick it if you already save lots of one-off links, you like reading them on your phone and your Kindle interchangeably, or you read on a Kobo.

RSS to Kindle: the writers you follow, every morning

RSS to Kindle starts from a different question: not “what did I save?” but “what did the people I follow publish?” You subscribe to blogs, Substacks and news sites — paste a URL or pick from the catalog of feeds other readers send — and each morning their new posts arrive as one digest, with a cover and a table of contents, like a small newspaper. There’s nothing to click on the days you’re busy. You can reorder feeds, cap how many posts one blog contributes, snooze a feed, or have one random post a day sent from a writer’s back catalogue.

The free plan sends five articles a day, text only, forever. The paid plan is $60 a year and removes the limit and adds images. You can send an article from the catalog before making an account at all. It’s Kindle only, and it doesn’t do one-off pages from your browser — for those, keep Push to Kindle around.

Pick it if the reading you want is ongoing: newsletters you never get to in your inbox, blogs you forget to check, a news site you’d rather read once a day than refresh all day.

Using more than one

These overlap less than they seem, and plenty of readers combine them. A common setup is RSS to Kindle for the daily digest and Push to Kindle for the odd article that isn’t from a feed. All three deliver by email to your Kindle, so each one’s sending address needs to be on your approved list — see how to find your Kindle email address and approve a sender.