Matter
A read-later app with natural text-to-speech
The verdict
Save an article, thread, PDF or YouTube video now and listen to it later, with podcasts and videos turned into transcripts that scroll in time with playback. The free tier already gives you an unlimited library, browser extensions and full-text search on iPhone, iPad and the web. Natural voices, newsletter and RSS sync and Send to Kindle need Premium at $79.99 a year, still less than Readwise Reader's $119.88.
Get it if
You save more articles than you ever read and would gladly hear some of them on a walk.
Skip it if
You want a basic save-for-later list, and Safari's Reading List does that free.
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What it helps you do
- Listen to saved articles like a podcast
- Read newsletters away from your inbox
- Send any article to your Kindle
- Search everything you saved, even offline
What it really costs
Pay once or subscribe? Drag to see the total after each year.
Pay-once totals leave out paid upgrades to future major versions.
Plans and prices
Free
Unlimited read-later library, browser extensions, unlimited tags, full-text search, themes and fonts
Premium
$79.99$79.99 a year or $7.99 a month in the App Store, adds HD text-to-speech, the AI Co-Reader, newsletter and RSS sync, unlimited highlights and integrations, and Send to Kindle
What changed
Version 4.1.18
Matter is ready for iPhone Duo! Read with your notebook, Co-Reader, chapters or links open in a side pane next to the article. Other fixes: · Fixed the Discover feed sometimes getting stuck loading · Fixed library sync occasionally stalling · Fixed changing your account email
Added to The Useful Apps
Pick something else if
Readwise ReaderPick it if you read dozens of articles and PDFs a week and want every highlight searchable later.From $9.99
NetNewsWirePick this if you follow blogs and news sites and want a free, ad-free list of new posts.Free, open source
ReederPick it if you follow YouTube channels and Mastodon accounts too and want to scroll them as 1 feed.Free to start
Matter head to head
The details
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad
- Requires
- iOS 26.0 or later
- Version
- 4.1.18
- Size
- 127 MB
- Made by
- Dig Wells, Inc.
- Rating
- 4.6 from 1.2K ratings on the App Store
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