Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day

with all my newsletters now flowing into Matter either through the Gmail integration or the forwarding rule, I have them in a centralised place where I can actually now pick out the ones I’m interested in listening to and add them to my queue. I’m also loving adding articles to my queue directly from my share menu browser to be specific to my current interests. Most importantly text to speech has been a game changer for allowing me to listen to them while doing chores, commute and working out! hi, I’ve tried the competitors and this one works the best.

I was looking for a way to read transcripts of podcasts and YouTube videos and came across Matter. It does this very well - transcripts are accurate and nicely formatted, and I like that I can save highlights from them. It’s also handy being able to save them in one place alongside other materials I want to come back to.

Is this app ever going to get thumbnails in the queue view? Been waiting for months and it’s literally the only thing preventing me from subscribing and switching from Readwise Reader

Came here from another app and Matter is much better. Fast, clean interface, works really well. I love being able to have all my newsletters go to Matter rather than cluttering up my email inbox too. Having newsletters and articles I’ve saved read aloud to me is awesome as well. Also, customer support were excellent when I had a few teething problems setting things up. A few small suggestions that would make the app even better though. - The ability to auto delete newsletters from the inbox. For example I’d like to set any newsletters I haven’t highlighted or added to my library to delete automatically after 3 days. - The ability to categorise my inbox with tags. I.e. to add a tag to an email address to say that newsletters from The Athletic are sport, from the NYT are News etc and then to be able to filter my inbox down to just see my “news” newsletters or “sports” newsletters etc. - The parsing is the best I’ve seen on a read it later app but I’d really like to be able to correct any mistakes the system does make by manually changing the author, publication name etc. - would love to be able to download articles I’ve saved, as PDFs rather than having to go back to the original website if I need to share or print for whatever reason. All in all though an excellent app, well worth the sub and I look forward to seeing where the devs take it next.

I’ve been a long-time subscriber to Pocket Premium but have recently cancelled my subscription after giving up on v8. Although I’m gutted to have lost my Pocket reading history, Matter offers so much more functionality, whether it’s an immeasurably better reading experience or native support for email subscriptions and RSS feeds. If you want a read-later app, Matter is the best one out there. PS Also, the support from Alicia T when I had a problem onboarding was first-rate!

.. the ‘Subscription Scourge’ has ‘Scuppered’ it, for me. Plus, one of the best features was ‘Binned’. The ability to post/repost Articles, and add your Own Comments to them was - Brilliant! It was taken away, with a small paragraph to say ‘We think otherwise!’. This was the Big thing I didn’t like. I’d started to repost quite a lot of stuff and built up a following (which as a ‘New’ Writer/Author was a huge deal), once this went, it kind of became ‘irrelevant’ to me. Then, chuck in the ‘overpriced’ Subscription, end of interest. Developers need support ☑ 100% ‘Boutique’ Subscription Pricing’ (where all the ‘Big’ & famous apps who believe they are ‘trendy & hip’ decide they are going to ask/demand unrealistic & expensive prices: because! After all, trendy folks (Customers) want to be seen using the most trendy and expensive apps to show off to their friends and online followers!) Well, there’s my thoughts, anyway. As you can tell, subscriptions, to my mind, have reached ‘Exhaustion’, completely & utterly. Folks can’t sustain them any longer. the average person, paying subscriptions for all the apps they use in their workflows and entertainment flows would be utterly broke and unable to pay all of their bills (on average). All the developers are achieving is to alienate customers (away from their apps), ensuring their user base is far inferior to that which it could be, and, if they are honest with themselves, over valuing their product. No subscriptions, One-time pricing, and realism will see them in a far more equitable position.

Love the app, happy to subscribe, but the share sheet in the latest version seems to have a bug. The sharing/tagging dialog doesn’t show properly, and my queue is not updating. Can you fix please?

Can’t read your own email newsletters without paying…

I realise developers need to get something back for all the work they’ve put in developing apps. But we’ve come to a point where you can’t even breath, without having to pay a monthly fee (figuratively). And for me going forward I’ve made the decision to only buy apps that use a one-off payment and maybe an x-year upgrade to a new version. So for this reason i’m out.

…subscription charge is an expensive dealbreaker. No speed reading either. Will consider joining if the prices change.