Matter vs Inkling

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

Inkling is a quiet little app for people who want better conversations. You add the people you actually talk to: a coworker, your dad, a friend you only see twice a year. Tag what they care about: Yankees, Italian cooking, indie film, their grandkids, anything. Before you see them, tap "Prep" and Inkling generates 3 to 5 short cards: a hook plus three quick bullet points each. Things you could actually bring up. It pulls from dozens of real news sources you already trust. Stories from today and the last couple weeks, filtered to what matches the person you're seeing. There's also a "Me" entry pinned at the top of your list. Tap "Brief me" for a daily news rundown tuned to your own interests. Like a personal editor's morning sheet. WHAT MAKES IT WORK - Person-by-person tailoring. Inkling doesn't show you everything. It shows you stories matching the people you're about to see. - Real sources, not summaries of summaries. Every card links back to the original article so you can dig deeper if a topic catches. - Quick to scan. Hook + three bullets means you can prep on the walk to brunch. - Quiet feedback. Thumbs up, thumbs down, or "used it" lets the app learn which sources land for which people, without ever asking you to fill out a profile. - Your data, your control. Sign up with email. Delete your account anytime from Settings. WHAT IT IS NOT It's not a feed. It's not a social app. It's not trying to be your homepage. You open it when you're about to see someone, get what you need, and close it. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who has ever: - Stood in a doorway trying to remember what they last talked about with their uncle - Wanted to be a better friend without faking it - Found themselves bored at brunch and wished they'd brought something interesting - Wanted a news brief that actually matches what they care about, not the algorithm's guess CONTENT TYPES You control which kinds of sources Inkling pulls from: News, Books, Film, TV, Music, Longreads, Sports, Tech, Science, Food. Toggle them in Settings. PRIVACY We store the people you add and the interests you tag. We don't sell anything. We don't share with third parties.