Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day

Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day

By Dig Wells, Inc.

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2021-06-22
  • Current Version: 3.0.7
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 139.02 MB
  • Developer: Dig Wells, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 4.6186
4.6186
From 645 Ratings

Description

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 (2022) Save anything: - Save full articles if you’re within the paywall (eg. Bloomberg, NYT, WSJ) - Rollup Twitter threads into a single article page - 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 - Sharing directly with friends In addition to the free features, Matter Premium offers:  - HD text-to-speech for all your articles - Sync your newsletters, subscribe to writers, and add RSS feeds - Unlimited highlighting, note-taking, and integrations  - Send to Kindle  - Full-text search  - Customizable themes and fonts 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

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Reviews

  • Best reading product out there

    5
    By Avid Reader 12
    Addicted to Matter, thanks for enriching my mind and helping me become a daily reader once again! Love the product.
  • Feels like Magic

    5
    By Abuzby
    Not often that you come across an app or an idea that just works - and does so effortlessly. This app is an essential way to personally archive and manage the web. Highly recommend for all those that read online.
  • Worth it!!

    5
    By TimberWolf96
    I absolutely love Matter for its Text-to-Speach capabilities. I put the voices on shuffle while commuting and it is like having a well narrated audio book. I used to use Instapaper. Then I moved to Pocket which fell apart last spring when they “upgraded” and lost a bunch of functionality. I’m glad I kept looking as Matter is FAR better. Usually I’m loath to subscribe to ANYTHING. I’m cheap and perfectly happy with the free version of many apps. But for me and the things I want Matter to do, it is well worth it!
  • the best reading app bar none

    5
    By armiahmad
    i’ve been using Matter since it was in beta, having come across it by happenstance. this is my most used app. it sits next to imessage and phone on my home screen. the joy of taking badly formatted or archived articles and importing them into matter is immeasurable. the beauty of listening to a favorite piece with — yes, the most human-like text to speech i’ve encountered — is sublime. the ability to highlight, make notes, share excerpts is delightful. what is really remarkable about Matter, though, is the fundamental ethos of how it exists. everything about the design of the app is meant to emphasize — not Matter, but what you opened it for — the text. every feature, every feed, every tool — it does not leave a distinctive watermark all over it. it instead says: here — this is what you wanted to read. here is what matters.
  • Great for language learning

    5
    By Doc Molly
    … and continuing medical education. I use Matter every day to transcribe informational, podcasts, highlight key points, useful phrases and vocabulary, and take notes. Works great. Love it.
  • Got charged for a one year subscription instead of a monthly subscription

    1
    By _111_1_
    Got charged for a one year subscription instead of a monthly subscription. That’s $59.99 gone from my bank account.
  • Not a good fit for my workflow or my life

    1
    By Quark Gluon Plasma
    I am not a particular fan of read-it-later apps for general reading. I do have a need for apps that assist with researching or keeping up with topics of varying scope. I want to easily extract information with an eye to acting on it. This app is not notably better than its competitors, Pocket and Instapaper, which were much earlier to market, and a bit less modern. All of them are frustrating to me. All they do is act as an extra inbox, and they do not make me more productive. They all alter and filter the contents of web pages, and often cut essential information like the authors of articles. Then there are other, more widely applicable issues: First, the price: $60/year, and it’s going up in 2024. I think it’s very expensive for what you get. Then the interface, which I find unpleasant. Each entry takes up a lot of room both horizontally and vertically. It seems thick, somehow. Finally, there’s the curation, which is unimpressive.
  • Did not provide podcast transcript

    3
    By constanto
    The app said it would take about 5 minutes to provide a podcast transcript so I tried it. Well over an hour later I checked to see if the transcript was done and it was not. There was no indication that it was even started. This was during a paid one month subscription period. I subscribed for one month specifically to test the podcast transcription feature. Good thing I hadn’t subscribed for a full year!
  • Left and came back

    5
    By tinybead
    The team is producing some ground breaking innovations and most responsive to suggestions and feedback.
  • Unimpressive content curation

    5
    By Vghjdsjjgsgsadfss
    I use this app as a storing house for articles I want to read. More and more the developers see fit to jam their pedestrian “curation” services down my throat. If this was a free app it would make sense that I’d have to endure useless recommendations of mundane Substack blogs written by friends &/or acquaintances &/or colleagues of the Matter team. But I pay good money for this app. The Matter Echo Chamber of Phony “Great ideas” is NOT what I signed up for.

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