Matter alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 64 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Matter 1/5 · US Better Than Instapaper, Not: Hi folks, I can’t recommend this app. Downloaded it got a very slick email from the CEO extolling its wonderful virtues. Then a very clever way to upgrade a pro trial. Well, their trial didn’t work so well. And Matter didn’t perform any better than Instapaper frequently coming up with a pathetic excuse that it couldn’t scrape articles from Apple News. Overpriced and
2. [R7] Matter 1/5 · US Beware Predatory Subscription Tactics: App is okay, however, upon opening it, I was confronted with a subscription offer that promised a trial. Unfortunately, I did not receive a trial, and $14.99 was deducted from my account. Within 5 minutes, I attempted to request a refund from Apple, I was informed that it was not eligible. I cannot endorse any application that conducts business in this manner
3. [R27] Matter 3/5 · US There is no free plan: After the 7-day free trial the options are: $79.99/year $14.99/month It’s a pretty ok app, but I don’t like the lack of transparency or documentation.
4. [R28] Matter 1/5 · US Description is a lie: “Matter offers a free service and a paid service.” No, only a paid service.
5. [R4] Matter 2/5 · US Can use with only one device: I tried to get it in mt phone. But my email confirmation never arrives. I wrote the company - check spam/junk, which I of course had done. No other help available I gave up and deleted it. After several emails back and forth, they never did anything with the information I gave them April Update I thought I’d give them another chance. Still no email confirmation rec
6. [R6] Matter 3/5 · US Good App, Bad Support: I like what this app has to offer, but I don’t have anything nice to say about the support. I’ve opened multiple tickets with the support team via the Slack channel available via the app and I’ve heard nothing in weeks.
7. [R9] Matter 3/5 · US Let down by unresponsive Customer Support (update): They finally responded. It seems you need to write a bad review for the to pay attention which is a shame. New version is nice, and Matter is probably still the best app to organize your reading, but some key features have gone for no good reason (they confirmed it). A good example is the ability for bulk delete both in your inbox and archive.
8. [R13] Matter 1/5 · US Used to Love…: I used this app to aggregate articles into a single file to send to my Kindle. Other apps allow single article send and it is very messy. I was enjoying the app; then the update happened. I lost the ability to do the only thing I used the app for. I contacted the company several times but never received a reply. I have Readwise, which is incredibly responsive. Rating a 1 because I c
9. [R3] Matter 3/5 · US Great concept, mediocre execution: I love the concept of the app, but it falls far short of being your go-to reading app. It’s very difficult to get PDFs or text emails into the app. Sometimes the emails are in your queue quickly, and sometimes they don’t show up at all. The browser extension sometimes pulls in the article, and sometimes it only creates a browser link, which is no better than a
10. [R10] Matter 1/5 · US Tried matter, but the app is a waste of time.: It downloads most webpages fine, but the way it formats them is sometimes obnoxious and counterintuitive. I looked past it because they claim in multiple places the app can download PDFs and easily convert them for reading with all the features they advertise. I tried 4 PDFs and only one worked. I tried going premium (used the free trial) and same pro
11. [R16] Matter 2/5 · US sometimes it works: maybe it will save an article, but don't rely on it to do so
12. [R15] Matter 3/5 · US Women authors: Pretty good app. The content is very much lacking. I’m a big proponent of female authors and for whatever reason content from female authors is completely lacking. I’ve “followed” and “favorited” female authors but the content is so narrow that I consistently am not provided with any articles from them. Most of the days out of the week there’s just no options. I’ve falling back to s
13. [R18] Matter 3/5 · US Nice start but repeats over time: Gave up another subscription newsletter organizer that I liked better, because of the curated content Matter offers. Quite enjoyed the material to start with but several months in most of the content is on repeat. There are days without a single article I haven’t seen before (other than my newsletter inbox). At this price point and based on what is being advertis
14. [R24] Matter 3/5 · US Same old stuff: Been using this for several months and am getting the same assortment of articles . Mostly directed to business people. I am a retired educator with many interests but none of them are business. Digging through my history and queue I can find something worthwhile. It would be great to have these upfront and daily instead of stuff for the corporate bros.
15. [R31] Matter 4/5 · US Love the content but…: Hello, I love the articles recommended to me but often you continue to recommend articles that I have already read.
16. [R21] Matter 3/5 · US Transcription used to work: This app is dead. Developers are no longer updating the app as frequently. The transcription service no longer works. When you email them, they just tell you that they would look into it. Go find another app
17. [R11] Matter 5/5 · US Best way to convert content to audio: Great product that allows me to save news articles from multiple sources, and provide text to voice playback from a saved queue. Saving works great with paywalled articles, but the caveat is that if you are on ios, the paywalled article must be brought up in Safari to allow the full article to have text to voice playback. For desktop systems, the Chrome exte
18. [R14] Matter 5/5 · US Better than Readwise: For my use case (listening to articles), this is so much better than readwise reader. Rarely it gets messed up on the TTS.
19. [R52] Beanstack Tracker 5/5 · US 1000 Books 📚 & the fun keeps coming!: If it wasn’t for this app, I don’t know if I would have been as motivated to get the challenge done. This keeps parents accountable and encourages children to pursue new challenges of their own once they use the app on their own someday.
20. [R56] Beanstack Tracker 3/5 · US Not bad!: I like this app overall. It encourages my friends (Who barely ever read!) to read more often to get first on the leaderboards for each category. The only thing that I dislike is how often people can fake minutes. (It’s on them) But overall, I appreciate this app helping people read more by challenging them!
21. [R58] Beanstack Tracker 5/5 · US Love: I love this app and it’s cool tracking. It helps me read more(even though I don’t need it.)
22. [R63] Beanstack Tracker 2/5 · US Too time consuming: I have three readers in two library summer reading programs. Why can’t I log the books per child and it counts them towards each library’s challenges It just took me 40 min to log the books they’ve read this June, but only shows up on one of the library spheres That’s absurd to have to re enter the same books for the same child just to count for the other library challenge.
23. [R36] Matter 1/5 · US No free option, $80 read it later app: Really annoyed by these psychological and statistically optimal onboarding procedures that ask you a million questions and make you create an account before they reveal that there is only a limited 7 day trial before you’re paying. I’m so over wasting my time with these apps that are so confident in themselves that they think there’s no way you’re not going t
24. [R2] Matter 5/5 · US Essential: I’m a longtime read-later app user, from Feedly to Reeder to Instapaper and beyond. I’ve been using matter since it launched a few years ago, and it’s surpassed them all. I love its ability to redirect newletters so my mailbox stays clean. It allows me to save, favorite, and highlight my favorite articles and newsletters. Its AI “readers” are the most natural and “listenable” I’ve exper
25. [R43] Matter 4/5 · US Great read later app with a UI that’s actually nice: Been using Matter for a couple months now, switched over from Pocket and I’m loving it! The feed is clean and the keyboard shortcuts for highlighting and notes are super convenient. I’ve especially enjoyed the ability to listen to my articles and cleanly save video and text in one queue. I’d really like the newsletters feature to work better fo