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Matter: Reading App

Matter: Reading App

Save Articles, Text to Speech

1.2K ratings
362 reviews
#97 in top-grossing News
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Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • June 22, 2021
  • July 27, 2026

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Developer

Dig Wells, Inc.
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Consolidate articles, newsletters, and PDFs into a single, elegant reading experience. Enjoy features like natural text-to-speech, fluid highlighting, and offline access. Sync your highlights to popular knowledge management tools.

✓Save articles, newsletters, PDFs, and YouTube
✓Natural text-to-speech for articles
✓Fluid highlighting and note-taking
✓Sync highlights to Notion, Obsidian, Readwise
✓Send articles to Kindle
✓Unified inbox for subscriptions
✓Offline reading
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Matter. Based on 1.2K reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 6 positives and 5 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.

Positive things

  • 🚀Seamless reading experience
  • 👍Elegant and intuitive UI
  • 🔊Excellent text-to-speech functionality
  • 💡Unified inbox for newsletters and articles
  • 🌟Best read-it-later app on the market
  • 📚Helpful for discovering new content

Negative things

  • 🔒Concerns over privacy and data collection
  • 💰Expensive subscription model
  • 🐛Inconsistent article parsing and formatting
  • 🔍Limited author/feed discovery options
  • 🔇Audio playback issues and bugs
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What's New in Matter

4.1.13

July 27, 2026

- Improved multi-device library syncing, including offline and background updates. - Improved saving from non-Safari share sheets. - Fixed rare crashes and data-recovery issues.

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Subscription plans

Matter Premium (Monthly)

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$7.991 Month
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In-App Purchases

$149.99

Matter Patron Tier

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Charts

Top Grossing

📉 97-4

News

This app dropped -4 positions in News chart.

Last updated on August 9, 2026.

Top Free

📈 152+4

News

This app rose +4 positions in News chart.

Last updated on August 9, 2026.

Events

Read more about Welcome, Pocket Readers
Event EndedSpecial Event

Welcome, Pocket Readers

Transition to your new home for reading.

May 30, 2025 — Jun 30, 2025

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2023 Wrapped

Discover a recap of your reading activity.

Dec 15, 2023 — Jan 15, 2024

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User reviews

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Has Potential, Poor Customer Service

This app is great, nice UI and works fairly well at parsing content, great TTS engine. I signed up for Pro for a month, but cancelled due to the non-existent support (out of 3 requests I got 1 response). Shame as this hits better than Readwise, but I’ve learned when the app is decent the support is usually poor.
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BananamanOneBananamanOne

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 Underperformed.
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NoneYa225NoneYa225

Bad Support

Tried to cancel in the 2nd year, sent a lot of e-mails and had no answer. I don't know what to do to recover my money...
Leandro GouveiaLeandro Gouveia

Frustration

Sends email to try new discover Feature. Installs app. Blocked by pro paywall. Uninstalls app
backside10backside10

Okay app let down by unresponsive support

No way to opt out of subscription auto-renewal (when not subscribed via the App Store). Unresponsive support to both genuine feedback and cancellation requests. Better apps out there. Avoid
Stan_TTStan_TT
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

4 issues

Subscription issues and inability to cancel

Bug

Delayed or missing newsletter delivery

Bug

Syncing problems across devices

Bug

Crashes and freezes on certain content

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Requested Features

5 requests

Ability to manually add blogs and RSS feeds

Feature

Customizable highlighter colors

Feature

Offline mode for audio playback

Feature

Integration with more note-taking apps

Feature

Improved search and filtering capabilities

Feature

FAQ

What does Matter do?

Matter is a reading app designed to bring together all the content you want to read, such as articles, newsletters, Twitter threads, and PDFs, into one unified place. It provides tools like natural text-to-speech and fluid highlighting to enhance your reading experience and make it more comfortable and effective.

What are the key features of Matter?

Key features include saving full articles even behind paywalls, podcast transcriptions with synced playback, saving PDFs and YouTube content, and reading across devices including sending articles to Kindle. It also offers a unified inbox for subscriptions, best-in-class article parsing, offline reading, a night mode, human-like text-to-speech, and the ability to sync highlights to tools like Notion and Obsidian.

How much does Matter cost?

Matter offers a free service with unlimited read-later library access, mobile and web extensions, best-in-class parsing, unlimited tags, full-text search, and customizable themes. A premium service is available which includes HD text-to-speech, an AI Co-Reader, newsletter syncing, unlimited highlighting, note-taking, integrations, and the send-to-Kindle feature. Premium is available via monthly or annual subscriptions.

What devices is Matter compatible with?

Matter is available on iPhone, iPad, and the web. You can access your saved content and reading experience across these devices seamlessly. The app also offers functionality to send articles directly to your Kindle device.

What are common use cases for Matter?

Common use cases include saving articles from news websites and blogs to read later, organizing and reading newsletters in one place, consuming podcast transcriptions, and saving research papers or documents in PDF format. Users also leverage it to consolidate content for later study or reference, syncing their notes and highlights to knowledge management systems.