Matter: Save. Read. Grow.

Name: Matter: Save. Read. Grow.
Rating: 4.6 (1109 reviews)
Author: Dig Wells, Inc.

Daily Reading & Text-to-Speech

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

1.1K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

News
Developer

Dig Wells, Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

118
MB

Finally, a better reading app. The internet is full of things you want to read – articles, newsletters, Twitter threads, PDFs. Matter brings them together in one place and gives you modern tools, like natural text-to-speech and fluid highlighting, to help you read more comfortably and effectively. "Matter improves vastly on earlier read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper" – The Wall Street Journal Save anything: - Save full articles if you're within the paywall (eg. Bloomberg, NYT, WSJ) - Podcast transcriptions & synced playback - Save PDFs and YouTube Read across devices, including Kindle: - iPhone, iPad, Web - Send any article to Kindle in 2-taps Unified inbox for your subscriptions: - Sync your newsletters by connecting Gmail - Follow individual writers for their latest posts - Add any RSS feed The most elegant reading experience: - Best-in-class article parsing + readability - Available offline by default - Gorgeous night mode - Human-like text-to-speech - Fluid highlighting and note-taking Export your knowledge: - Sync your highlights to Notion, Obsidian, Roam, Readwise, and others Matter offers a free service and a Premium service. The free version of Matter includes: - Uncapped read-later library - Mobile & web extensions to save all types of content - Best-in-class parsing and readability - Unlimited tags - Full-text search - Customizable themes and fonts In addition to the free features, Matter Premium offers: - HD text-to-speech for all your articles - Seamless AI Co-Reader - Sync your newsletters, subscribe to writers, and add RSS feeds - Unlimited highlighting, note-taking, and integrations - Send to Kindle Payment for Matter Premium will be charged to your iTunes Account when you subscribe. Annual and monthly subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Manage your Matter Premium subscription by going to Matter's Settings page. Terms of Use: https://hq.getmatter.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://hq.getmatter.com/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

1.1K Ratings

Game changer
02/01/2023

ki4hrg
I’m not typically one to leave app reviews, or to pay $60/year for an app. But here I am doing both because Matter is *that* good. I was a loyal Instapaper user for several years, but less than a week of playing with the free version was enough to convince me to switch (which, I’ll note, they make incredibly easy even with Instapaper’s API limitations). The article reading functionality is good - certainly on par with other apps, and things like the natural TTS are big improvements. They’re also clearly actively working on their parser, and the couple of times I’ve reported a content issue they’ve quickly not only fixed it but let me know they had done so. Where Matter is really a game changer is the unified subscription inbox. I’ve thought for ages that surely someone could come up with one place for all newsletters coming from email, RSS, or anywhere else. And here… they did it. Once I got it set up, it’s amazing to no longer have newsletters languishing in my inbox for days at a time, especially for long form ones that I may read a few days after they come out. Now they’re all sitting there, ready and waiting for me to get to them. It’s a newer app so there are still some rough edges to be polished, but it’s already a fantastic app that I’m excited to see continue to improve.

Developer Response
Hey there, wow! Thanks for such a wonderful review. We're honored to have you onboard with us and have lots of exciting things we're working hard on getting out!
Game changer
02/01/2023

ki4hrg

I’m not typically one to leave app reviews, or to pay $60/year for an app. But here I am doing both because Matter is *that* good. I was a loyal Instapaper user for several years, but less than a week of playing with the free version was enough to convince me to switch (which, I’ll note, they make incredibly easy even with Instapaper’s API limitations). The article reading functionality is good - certainly on par with other apps, and things like the natural TTS are big improvements. They’re also clearly actively working on their parser, and the couple of times I’ve reported a content issue they’ve quickly not only fixed it but let me know they had done so. Where Matter is really a game changer is the unified subscription inbox. I’ve thought for ages that surely someone could come up with one place for all newsletters coming from email, RSS, or anywhere else. And here… they did it. Once I got it set up, it’s amazing to no longer have newsletters languishing in my inbox for days at a time, especially for long form ones that I may read a few days after they come out. Now they’re all sitting there, ready and waiting for me to get to them. It’s a newer app so there are still some rough edges to be polished, but it’s already a fantastic app that I’m excited to see continue to improve.
Developer Response 02/09/2023
Hey there, wow! Thanks for such a wonderful review. We're honored to have you onboard with us and have lots of exciting things we're working hard on getting out!
Best of the Best
10/21/2022

MLD10499
Unlimited highlights. An excellent tagging system. Beautiful, clean UI. Importing email subscriptions. No ads. Great save-for-later feature for Safari and Chrome. A great web app. Text to Speech with a natural voice. It doesn't get better than this, and certainly not for free. I would happily pay for these features, as I think Matter does them better than comparable Pro versions of reader apps, but I also hope that as the app grows, the folks at Matter to keep a good many of them free. Also, the two times I've put in a suggestion or bug in the web app, I've gotten a speedy response : ).A few small notes and quirks:Some articles don't transfer completely, or transfer with the text of pop up windows, or only transfer the pop up content. That might be user error on my part, and it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying.You can't click links in a highlight, so you have to remember to open or save the link before you highlight.The ability to start TTS from a specific part in the article is a great feature in the mobile app that I hope comes to the web app. The ability to use shortcut keys to delete, archive, favorite, tag, etc. is a great feature in the web app that I hope comes to the mobile app.More consistent treatment of photos (sometimes imported, sometimes not, sometimes caption transferred as body text, sometimes not) would be nice, especially for TTS purposes, but not a dealbreaker.

Developer Response
Hey there, this is incredible feedback, thank you! We're going to work hard to continue to build an even better reader. Our team will definitely be discussing these notes and quirks soon!
Best of the Best
10/21/2022

MLD10499

Unlimited highlights. An excellent tagging system. Beautiful, clean UI. Importing email subscriptions. No ads. Great save-for-later feature for Safari and Chrome. A great web app. Text to Speech with a natural voice. It doesn't get better than this, and certainly not for free. I would happily pay for these features, as I think Matter does them better than comparable Pro versions of reader apps, but I also hope that as the app grows, the folks at Matter to keep a good many of them free. Also, the two times I've put in a suggestion or bug in the web app, I've gotten a speedy response : ).A few small notes and quirks:Some articles don't transfer completely, or transfer with the text of pop up windows, or only transfer the pop up content. That might be user error on my part, and it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying.You can't click links in a highlight, so you have to remember to open or save the link before you highlight.The ability to start TTS from a specific part in the article is a great feature in the mobile app that I hope comes to the web app. The ability to use shortcut keys to delete, archive, favorite, tag, etc. is a great feature in the web app that I hope comes to the mobile app.More consistent treatment of photos (sometimes imported, sometimes not, sometimes caption transferred as body text, sometimes not) would be nice, especially for TTS purposes, but not a dealbreaker.
Developer Response 11/07/2022
Hey there, this is incredible feedback, thank you! We're going to work hard to continue to build an even better reader. Our team will definitely be discussing these notes and quirks soon!
My Pocket Replacer
Jul 22

Eparz
When I heard that Pocket was being sunset, I scrambled to find a solution and I think that this will do just fine. I want to be able to add articles that I don’t have time to read in the moment, so that I can refer to them later, tag the article so that I can group the topics I want to read, and easily save from other sites. Matter ticks all of those boxes, but it also adds features I didn’t know I needed, like the ability to convert those articles to text and listen to them. For an information hog like myself, this has been invaluable because I can listen to the articles I’ve saved in the car or on a walk or while doing the dishes. At first, I was a little bummed out to have to pay for it, but considering I’ve lost all of my saved articles now three times in 30 years of digital existence because of companies going out of business, I’d rather support a company financially and keep it going!
My Pocket Replacer
Jul 22

Eparz

When I heard that Pocket was being sunset, I scrambled to find a solution and I think that this will do just fine. I want to be able to add articles that I don’t have time to read in the moment, so that I can refer to them later, tag the article so that I can group the topics I want to read, and easily save from other sites. Matter ticks all of those boxes, but it also adds features I didn’t know I needed, like the ability to convert those articles to text and listen to them. For an information hog like myself, this has been invaluable because I can listen to the articles I’ve saved in the car or on a walk or while doing the dishes. At first, I was a little bummed out to have to pay for it, but considering I’ve lost all of my saved articles now three times in 30 years of digital existence because of companies going out of business, I’d rather support a company financially and keep it going!
Good app but some bugs to fix
08/23/2023

Duh reader
So far I really like this compared to Pocket but there are some bugs that are pretty annoying. Right now I’m trying to sign in on the iOS app and the link sent to my email address just doesn’t work. I click it and get to a screen where it says “Click here to complete your login” with a big blue “Login to Matter” button that is completely unresponsive to clicks lol. I noticed a similar problem when signing into the chrome extension before. Those are my biggest complaints. Overall like the app but these issues make it less usable; hope the devs can fix these and them I’m fully onboard for 4-5 stars ⭐️Also one other issue I’ve noticed is there’s often some weird delay between saving an article and it showing up in your queue. There’s been several times I’ve saved something and then it’s not there, I try saving a couple more times, think the app’s broken, feel sad, and then 5 minutes later the article appears in my queue. Not a fatal bug but bad UX especially for new users testing it out.
Good app but some bugs to fix
08/23/2023

Duh reader

So far I really like this compared to Pocket but there are some bugs that are pretty annoying. Right now I’m trying to sign in on the iOS app and the link sent to my email address just doesn’t work. I click it and get to a screen where it says “Click here to complete your login” with a big blue “Login to Matter” button that is completely unresponsive to clicks lol. I noticed a similar problem when signing into the chrome extension before. Those are my biggest complaints. Overall like the app but these issues make it less usable; hope the devs can fix these and them I’m fully onboard for 4-5 stars ⭐️Also one other issue I’ve noticed is there’s often some weird delay between saving an article and it showing up in your queue. There’s been several times I’ve saved something and then it’s not there, I try saving a couple more times, think the app’s broken, feel sad, and then 5 minutes later the article appears in my queue. Not a fatal bug but bad UX especially for new users testing it out.

- Brought back Bulk Send to Kindle and an option to delete all articles in Inbox - Fixed some list layout issues - Fixed some memory leaks - Fixed share extension button layout

Version 4.0.5

Nov 30

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