Matter: Reading App

• Matter Pro (Monthly) — $2.99/week
• Matter Pro (Monthly) — $12.99/month
• Matter Pro (Monthly) — $59.99/year ($4.99/mo)
• Matter Pro (Monthly) — $79.99/year ($6.66/mo)
• Matter Premium (Monthly) — $7.99/month
• Matter Premium (Monthly) — $14.99/month
• Matter Premium (Monthly) — $79.99/year ($6.66/mo)
• Matter Premium (Monthly) — $99.99
• Matter Patron Tier — $149.99

Last verified 5 Aug 2026

4.6 1219 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5Good app but some bugs to fix

   So far I really like this compared to Pocket but there are some bugs that are pretty annoying. Right now I’m trying to sign in on the iOS app and the link sent to my email address just doesn’t work. I click it and get to a screen where it says “Click here to complete your login” with a big blue “Login to Matter” button that is completely unresponsive to clicks lol. I noticed a similar problem when signing into the chrome extension before. Those are my biggest complaints. Overall like the app but these issues make it less usable; hope the devs can fix these and them I’m fully onboard for 4-5 stars ⭐️ Also one other issue I’ve noticed is there’s often some weird delay between saving an article and it showing up in your queue. There’s been several times I’ve saved something and then it’s not there, I try saving a couple more times, think the app’s broken, feel sad, and then 5 minutes later the article appears in my queue. Not a fatal bug but bad UX especially for new users testing it out.

   Duh reader · 5 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Serious app for readers

   This app is remarkable. It does an amazing job synthesizing both newsletters and read-it-laters. It also has additional functionality of allowing you to see new posts from writers that you can follow within the app. The text parsing is usually very good and clean. You're even able to get access to some paywalled stuff on occasion through the text parse. There are just some really thoughtful features happening within the app. The one that I like the very most is the shuffle feature for the read it later list. So fun! Highlighting is really simple, and coming back to your notes as simple as well. So much more to say, but I'm enjoying using this app thoroughly.

   nico_c_b · 5 Aug 2026

3. 5/5the best reading app bar none

   i’ve been using Matter since it was in beta, having come across it by happenstance. this is my most used app. it sits next to imessage and phone on my home screen. the joy of taking badly formatted or archived articles and importing them into matter is immeasurable. the beauty of listening to a favorite piece with — yes, the most human-like text to speech i’ve encountered — is sublime. the ability to highlight, make notes, share excerpts is delightful. what is really remarkable about Matter, though, is the fundamental ethos of how it exists. everything about the design of the app is meant to emphasize — not Matter, but what you opened it for — the text. every feature, every feed, every tool — it does not leave a distinctive watermark all over it. it instead says: here — this is what you wanted to read. here is what matters.

   armiahmad · 5 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Not a good fit for my workflow or my life

   I am not a particular fan of read-it-later apps for general reading. I do have a need for apps that assist with researching or keeping up with topics of varying scope. I want to easily extract information with an eye to acting on it. This app is not notably better than its competitors, Pocket and Instapaper, which were much earlier to market, and a bit less modern. All of them are frustrating to me. All they do is act as an extra inbox, and they do not make me more productive. They all alter and filter the contents of web pages, and often cut essential information like the authors of articles. Then there are other, more widely applicable issues: First, the price: $60/year, and it’s going up in 2024. I think it’s very expensive for what you get. Then the interface, which I find unpleasant. Each entry takes up a lot of room both horizontally and vertically. It seems thick, somehow. Finally, there’s the curation, which is unimpressive.

   Quark Gluon Plasma · 5 Aug 2026

5. 5/5My Pocket Replacer

   When I heard that Pocket was being sunset, I scrambled to find a solution and I think that this will do just fine. I want to be able to add articles that I don’t have time to read in the moment, so that I can refer to them later, tag the article so that I can group the topics I want to read, and easily save from other sites. Matter ticks all of those boxes, but it also adds features I didn’t know I needed, like the ability to convert those articles to text and listen to them. For an information hog like myself, this has been invaluable because I can listen to the articles I’ve saved in the car or on a walk or while doing the dishes. At first, I was a little bummed out to have to pay for it, but considering I’ve lost all of my saved articles now three times in 30 years of digital existence because of companies going out of business, I’d rather support a company financially and keep it going!

   Eparz · 5 Aug 2026

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