Matter vs Pollster Pass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matter
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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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
Pollster Pass
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Stay up to date with the latest in real-time polling averages with Pollster Pass — your go-to source for polling data, approval ratings, and electoral research. A REDESIGNED LATEST TAB Open the app and see what's changed: a time-aware greeting, an election countdown, a compact 7-Day Trends card covering the generic ballot and every major approval rating, National Pulse cards for the generic ballot and Trump approval, and a Biggest Mover hero card that spotlights the single race or metric that shifted the most this month — ranked fairly across the generic ballot, national approvals, and every race you follow. FOLLOW THE RACES YOU CARE ABOUT Star any race from the Polling tab and it lands on your Following list — a personal dashboard with per-race cards, cross-race Watchlist Insights, and a Race Watch section that surfaces the closest race on your list, the one that's been polled most this week, and the one that's gone quiet. Free accounts follow up to a handful of races; Pro removes the limit. WEEKLY BRIEFING — AI, ON YOUR PHONE Pro users can tap the sparkles button on the Following tab to generate a Weekly Briefing — an on-device AI summary of every race you're watching that ties poll shifts to the headlines behind them. Runs privately on your phone using Apple Intelligence, never sent to a server. IN THE NEWS A curated news surface pulls headlines from major outlets and tags each article to the races you follow — right on the Latest tab, on Following, and inside every race detail. Pro required. POLLING DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Browse the latest polls from top pollsters. Filter by poll type, pollster, subject, and date range. View generic ballot matchups, presidential approval ratings, and primary race standings. INTERACTIVE CHARTS Visualize trends over time with polling average charts for the generic ballot, approval ratings, and primary races. See who's gaining momentum and who's falling behind. Every long list also gets a "jump to top" button once you've scrolled a screen down. ELECTORAL COLLEGE MAP Explore an interactive electoral map. Tap any state to view its electoral votes, current rating, and margin. Pro users can build custom predictions, save presets, and edit electoral vote allocations. SENATE MAP Interactive United States Senate map with real time polling presets, user presets and more! HOUSE MAP Interactive map to give the user the ability to create unlimited custom outcomes for the House of Representatives. HOME SCREEN & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Keep polling data visible without opening the app. Add widgets for 7-day trends, approval ratings, the generic ballot margin, and primary race leaders — plus a Following widget for the races on your watchlist. PRO FEATURES Upgrade to Pollster Pass Pro to unlock the on-device Weekly Briefing, News-Aware Race Insights, unlimited Following, extended chart history, the full curated news feed, advanced search filters, the full interactive map editor, and premium widgets. iPad SUPPORT Fully native on iPad — the same rich Latest, Following, News, and Charts surfaces scale up to the larger screen, with two-up card layouts and grid-based charts. Great for education, group briefings, and side-by-side comparisons. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Matter at weekly against Pollster Pass's every 2 months. Matter also leads on chart position (#76 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Matter sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Pollster Pass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Matter ships an update weekly, Pollster Pass every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matter | Pollster Pass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #76 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dig Wells, Inc. | Matthew Harrington |
Bugs and requests
Matter
Reported bugs
4 issues- Subscription issues and inability to cancel
- Delayed or missing newsletter delivery
- Syncing problems across devices
- Crashes and freezes on certain content
Requested features
5 requests- 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
Pollster Pass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Matter
- Matter Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$7.991 Month
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$9.991 Month
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- Matter Pro (Monthly)$12.991 Month
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$13.991 Month
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$14.991 Month
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$15.991 Month
- Matter Premium (Monthly)$19.991 Month
- Matter Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$59.991 Year
- Matter Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Matter Pro (Annual)$59.991 Year
- Matter Premium (Annual)$69.991 Year
- Matter Premium (Annual)$79.991 Year
- Matter Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Matter Premium1 Month trial2 variants$79.991 Year
- Matter Pro (Annual)$79.991 Year
- Matter Premium (Annual)$99.991 Year
- Matter Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Matter Patron Tier$149.99
- Matter Premium (3 years)$149.99
Pollster Pass
- Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
- Annual Pro$9.991 Year









