Matter

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 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. [R2] 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
2. [R9] 5/5 · US Best read later app: I’ve tried several different apps but Matter is the prettiest and best interface. I just always go back to Matter.
3. [R13] 5/5 · US Beautiful and useful app: I enjoy it so much.
4. [R25] 5/5 · US Matter rocks!: Longtime Pocket user having evaluated everything I can get my hands on as a replacement! Matter feels like the winner for me. It is a very thought full app which is precisely what I want! Thought full content and more-so an engaging well thought out interaction that feels smart. No wasted moves, space or fluff, while addressing what I want to track beyond the norm. It’s tight -
5. [R7] 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
6. [R8] 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.
7. [R77] 5/5 · US Worth it!!: 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.
8. [R3] 5/5 · US Simple, powerful, reading queue: Matter comes to fill the gap after Pocket closed down, and I love its simplicity and useful features. Finding things to read in the discover or related articles section is nice. You can also add newsletters or rss feeds. Adding things to read later is simple as using the share sheet anywhere on iOS or via browser extensions for other devices. With premium you get
9. [R10] 5/5 · US love it: makes it realy easy and intuitive to have all my newsletters in one spot. reduces clutter and actually makes me wanna read them
10. [R16] 5/5 · US Best reading app for iPhones: Matter has everything a reader could want. You can select any article and file it to read later. The app also gives you useful reading suggestions based on your previous usage.
11. [R31] 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
12. [R59] 5/5 · US Amazing: I’ve been using this app for around two weeks and it’s a game changer if you really want to learn and increase your knowledge. I wish I came across this earlier. I particularly love the transcription feature and the ability to note take and highlight while watching.
13. [R11] 4/5 · US Does the job: Solid and customizable reader, appreciate the Discover tab and being able to follow writers/publications. Support for any and all RSS feeds so I don’t have to rely on newsletter workarounds would be appreciated.
14. [R49] 4/5 · US Beautiful reading app, just the cost...: I did the trial of this app and liked how it asked your interests and then provided you with articles that you would have never known about to read ontop of whatever you have forwarded into the app. I also like that it challenges you to read daily or at least listen...yes, listen! My only issue is the cost. For those of us who aren't in the workforce any
15. [R1] 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
16. [R4] 4/5 · US Pretty good, missing a few things: A widget for unread articles would be a game changer, or the option to buy once. I just can’t justify paying monthly.
17. [R17] 5/5 · US Helping me feel sane: I have been using Matter as part of decluttering my life and replacing doom scrolling with more focused reading. Matter works great for this. I would love to subscribe to support them, but $80/year is a bit steep, and I don’t want to pay for AI “features”; I’ll never understand how AI would help me to read. This seems antithetical to reading.
18. [R45] 1/5 · US Garbage: Cheap developers, bad design, trying to milk the crowd using subscriptions. Waste of time.
19. [R6] 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
20. [R19] 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
21. [R27] 2/5 · US sometimes it works: maybe it will save an article, but don't rely on it to do so
22. [R5] 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
23. [R12] 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.
24. [R20] 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.
25. [R18] 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
26. [R40] 1/5 · US Description is a lie: “Matter offers a free service and a paid service.” No, only a paid service.
27. [R41] 1/5 · US False: The 7 day trial doesn’t let you do anything but watch the preloaded video, so you can’t truly see what the app really does. So don’t even offer the trial. Disappointed.
28. [R46] 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.
29. [R63] 1/5 · US Can they atleast say that they don’t support Twitter links?: I am a Patreon member for this app, I like the ui but my main use case is saving Twitter tweets and this app doesnot save them and even worse they don’t even say that it won’t work, whenever u save a tweet link, it says it queued but it won’t show up anywhere on your app. I have given this app enough chances but they never made it work w
30. [R101] 3/5 · US WSJ links don't work: I have a WSJ subscription and links don't work on Matter, even after saving from within the paywall.
31. [R21] 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
32. [R162] 3/5 · US Can’t Import What I Want to Hear: I have a myriad of things that I’ve written or people have written to me that I’d like to import into this app.But other than email or things published on the web I can’t import anything. Can you add the ability to bring things in from the clipboard?Can you add the ability to copy and paste the email address used for forwarding? Can we get an easy way to get to th
33. [R168] 3/5 · US This app is very good BUT NO EXPORT nor photos.: I really really really want to love this app & throw money at the developers. But there is no export function. Also Highlights are great: but can’t export my highlights. Also cannot add photos (screenshots), and Instagram bookmarks don’t save correctly (always loads IG login bookmark - unlike other apps). Export is a missing no-go feature: I have se
34. [R15] 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.
35. [R28] 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
36. [R36] 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
37. [R42] 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.
38. [R30] 1/5 · US Used to be great: I used to use this app all the time. Now, despite paying for a subscription, the app doesn’t recognize I’ve paid. This feels like fraud.
39. [R33] 1/5 · US I’ve lost all my data after update: Will never use it again. My reading list disappeared after update.
40. [R95] 1/5 · US The purchase membership is invalid.: This software is really bad. I have bought a membership for a year. When I opened the software just now, he told me that I was not a member. It's the same as logging out of the account and logging in again. Please refund my money.
41. [R47] 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
42. [R56] 1/5 · US Description does not match - Not free: Disappointed that they say you can either have a free subscription or a premium subscription. It is supposed free for 7 days before you are charged a monthly service. Sorry. Not for me. Either have a free subscription or be open and honest upfront that it is free for 7 days but then you will be charged. I could have not wasted my time.
43. [R69] 1/5 · US No refunds …cannot cancel: So I signed up with the supposed ability to cancel before you have to pay in 7 days. I tried it and by day 3 I wanted to cancel. The button to cancel was disabled. I sent 3 messages within the app requesting to cancel. No response. Today I was chaged $79. Now I was of course able to cancel. I did…well no refunds for me of course I have a year paid for something I dont wa
44. [R52] 1/5 · US Buggy, Cancelled my $80yr.: Sadly, I cannot invest $80 a year on something that is this buggy. I cancelled my yearly subscription. I can forgive most of the bugs, but… NOT creating my YouTube transcripts so that I can read them? that’s a deal breaker. It’s the main reason I signed up. If you ever fix this, I may return. BUGS: ❌ YouTube transcript not working (16-17 hours) later. Though it sa
45. [R80] 3/5 · US Did not provide podcast transcript: 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. Go
46. [R92] 3/5 · US Transcription from overcast not working: Transcription from overcast not working
47. [R205] 3/5 · GB Buggy: I really like the idea and I use the text to read, highlighting etc and transcribing. The issue is there are too many bugs with transcribing. I use the 3 daily transcribing option often (why is it restricted to 3?!), daily. I save a YouTube and want to transcribe it so I can read, watch and highlight at the same time, but often it won’t work - it will just hang on the “Generating transcript