# Matter: Reading App — Save Articles, Text to Speech

> Unified reading app for articles, newsletters, PDFs, and more with text-to-speech. (iPhone/iPad app by Dig Wells, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/matter-reading-app/id1501592184 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dig Wells, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1498971378)
- Category: News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 1,223 App Store ratings · 364 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 114 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-06-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/matter-reading-app/id1501592184/reviews.md

## What is Matter?

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

## Key features

- 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

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $7.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $9.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $19.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $14.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Annual) | $69.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium (Annual) | $99.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium (Annual) | $79.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $13.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Monthly) | $15.99 | per month |
| Matter Premium (Annual) | $79.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium | $79.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium | $99.99 | per year |
| Matter Pro Weekly | $2.99 | per 7 days |
| Matter Pro (Annual) | $79.99 | per year |
| Matter Pro (Annual) | $59.99 | per year |
| Matter Pro (Annual) | $59.99 | per year |
| Matter Pro (Monthly) | $12.99 | per month |
| Matter Pro (Annual) | $59.99 | per year |
| Matter Premium | $79.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matter Patron Tier | $149.99 | one-time |
| Matter Premium (3 years) | $149.99 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #129 in Top Grossing · News (US App Store)

## What do users think of Matter?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 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

**Cons**

- 🔒 Concerns over privacy and data collection
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🐛 Inconsistent article parsing and formatting
- 🔍 Limited author/feed discovery options
- 🔇 Audio playback issues and bugs

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Subscription issues and inability to cancel
- Delayed or missing newsletter delivery
- Syncing problems across devices
- Crashes and freezes on certain content

**Most requested features**

- Ability to manually add blogs and RSS feeds
- Customizable highlighter colors
- Offline mode for audio playback
- Integration with more note-taking apps
- Improved search and filtering capabilities

## Recent user reviews (10 of 364)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/matter-reading-app/id1501592184/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Ability to add more than one email for email news letters.

*2026-08-11, version 4.1.13*

The app is great, highly functional does everything it promises. My favorite features are ai summary of an entire page, audio book feature where you can listen to the content rather than reading, article recommendations based on saved articles, learning with Ai flashcard style. My only misgivings are the fact that you can only add one email address for your email newsletters. Also organizing is rather limited. There should be the option of saving links or articles in different folders, tagging within said folders. Currently the only organizational option is tags. Not enough

### 5/5 — Lovely

*2026-08-05, version 4.1.13*

This app is a great alternative to doomscrolling, and has helped me read a lot more

### 3/5 — Has Potential, Poor Customer Service

*2026-07-17, version 4.1.12*

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.

### 1/5 — Better Than Instapaper – Not

*2026-07-01, version 4.1.12*

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.

### 1/5 — Bad Support

*2026-06-30*

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...

### 1/5 — Frustration

*2026-06-05*

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

### 2/5 — Okay app let down by unresponsive support

*2026-05-30, version 4.1.10*

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

### 2/5 — Buggy and shuts down, stick with a competitor

*2026-05-16, version 4.1.9*

Great design and nice audio voices but it repeatedly shuts down as an app for no reason. I’ve done all the trouble shooting several times and it hasn’t improved. Customer support has not been very helpful; just repeating the same “have you tried this?” and also asking for screenshots of the issue which isn’t going to help diagnosing it further realistically. I can’t be the only person with this issue, so overall a disappointment and I will return to a competitor.

### 5/5 — Reduced pro fee is appreciated

*2026-05-15*

The fee used to be insanely high and now it’s much lesser

Thanks for this guys

Appreciate it

**Developer response:** Thanks for the kind words. Really glad the updated pricing feels better.

-The Matter Team

### 5/5 — Essential

*2026-05-14, version 4.1.9*

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 experienced. It provides a beautiful reading experience. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

## Frequently asked questions about Matter

### 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.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.1.13 — 2026-07-27

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

### 4.1.12 — 2026-06-09

Fixed a few issues with discover feed not loading for users on free trial.

### 4.1.11 — 2026-06-01

Introducing our new discover tab. It contains recommendations based on your reading history, trending articles on Matter, new posts from your favorite authors, and more.

### 4.1.10 — 2026-05-26

Introducing our new discover tab. It contains recommendations based on your reading history, trending articles on Matter, new posts from your favorite authors, and more.

### 4.1.9 — 2026-04-25

• Fixed an issue where widget is blank due to memory usage issue.
• Fixed audio playback progress not being saved when the app was terminated in the background.
• Fixed a bug where the Co-Reader answer view could get stuck on iPad.

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