Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day

You can use the app only if you subscribed. Otherwise, you can only use the web version

Everything good but not RSS function. Even if the RSS link works on all other rss reader, the same won’t work in Matter app. Quite disappointed.

Some functions are really useful, like turn a video into words through the transcript. It is a smart organiser of the read / to be read articles. However, the ui is not quite user-friendly. Premium plan is not cheap too

Really nice reader! Love the very high quality voices. A few features that would be great to add: 1. Ability to read epub 2. Ability to change whether done tap highlights a sentence or makes that the new tts playing position 3. Table of contents - possibly AI generated when one is missing 4. Better view of progress in the article

Been using this for several months and am getting the same assortment of articles . Mostly directed to business people. I am a retired educator with many interests but none of them are business. Digging through my history and queue I can find something worthwhile. It would be great to have these upfront and daily instead of stuff for the corporate bros.

This app has lured me away from twitter and I am so thankful for it

I’m a long-time Pocket user, but that product has really fallen off (GUI, reliability, voices, etc) so I’m looking for a new tool that’s similar to what Pocket used to be. I tried Matter, but wasn’t super impressed. The GUI is good, but no better than Instapaper (free). The summarization sounded promising, but didn’t work very well. The idea of managing my RSS feeds sounded great, but Matter couldn’t process half of the feeds I tried to set up. The product has potential but seems half-baked on the advanced functionality that I would actually pay for. So I guess I’ll use Instapaper for now.

Cheap developers, bad design, trying to milk the crowd using subscriptions. Waste of time.

After the 7-day free trial the options are: $79.99/year $14.99/month It’s a pretty ok app, but I don’t like the lack of transparency or documentation.

Really annoyed by these psychological and statistically optimal onboarding procedures that ask you a million questions and make you create an account before they reveal that there is only a limited 7 day trial before you’re paying. I’m so over wasting my time with these apps that are so confident in themselves that they think there’s no way you’re not going to want to pay $80 a year because you can save what mark manson writes on any random day. I should have known when they didn’t have a pricing tab on their site. Also because it had apples “app of the day”, since they’re getting a share of every subscription, they’re gonna award it to pricey apps. They’re all out of touch, I’ll stick to my free castle player, omnivore, and news explorer apps which do the same thing.