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About Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day

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 (2022)

Save anything:
- Save full articles if you’re within the paywall (eg. Bloomberg, NYT, WSJ)
- Rollup Twitter threads into a single article page
- 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
- Sharing directly with friends

In addition to the free features, Matter Premium offers:

- HD text-to-speech for all your articles
- Sync your newsletters, subscribe to writers, and add RSS feeds
- Unlimited highlighting, note-taking, and integrations
- Send to Kindle
- Full-text search
- Customizable themes and fonts

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

What's New in the Latest Version 3.2

Last updated on May 3, 2024

Old Versions

Weekly top reader badge is back on You tab! IYKYK.
Also fixed some other minor issues.

Happy reading.

Version History

3.2

May 3, 2024

Weekly top reader badge is back on You tab! IYKYK.
Also fixed some other minor issues.

Happy reading.

3.1.4

Apr 25, 2024

Introducing an updated weekly reading activity module on You tab.
Also fixed a few crashes when syncing your library on app launch or when app enters background.

Happy reading!

3.1.3

Apr 18, 2024

Matter now shows the estimated reading time for your articles.
If you'd like to switch back to word count, you can change your preference in Settings -> Reading Options.

Happy reading!

3.1.2

Apr 17, 2024

You can now set a daily reading goal on Matter and see your progress in realtime.
Reading 5 minutes a day is equivalent to 8 books a year.
Happy reading!

3.1.1

Apr 5, 2024

You can now set a daily reading goal on Matter and see your progress in realtime.
Reading 5 minutes a day is equivalent to 8 books a year.
Happy reading!

3.1

Apr 4, 2024

You can now set a daily reading goal on Matter and see your progress in realtime.
Reading 5 minutes a day is equivalent to 8 books a year.
Happy reading!

3.0.7

Mar 25, 2024

Fixed a few bugs in onboarding flow for new users.

3.0.6

Mar 19, 2024

Bug fixes and small improvements!

3.0.5

Mar 18, 2024

You can now start a free trial to explore premium features.
Enjoy reading!

3.0.3

Mar 14, 2024

Today we're launching a new Home Tab that delivers a daily selection of the highest quality reading from the world's best minds.

Note that:
- You now have the option to pin the Inbox as its own tab.
- You can still set Queue or Inbox as your launch screen

Enjoy reading!

3.0.2

Feb 23, 2024

3.0.1

Feb 22, 2024

Today we're launching a new Home Tab that delivers a daily selection of the highest quality reading from the world's best minds.

Note that:
• Your Inbox lives within the Home Tab.
• You can still set your Queue as your start screen.

Enjoy reading!

3.0

Feb 21, 2024

2.19.9

Jan 29, 2024

Fixed an issue where article menu states were not correctly updated when you favorite/unfavorite.
Thanks for the report!

2.19.8

Dec 23, 2023

Another round of small fixes & cleanups to close out the year.

- Skip raw URLs in text to speech mode (thanks for the feedback!)
- Fixes an issue where iMessage window gets stuck after you search & share an article
- Fixes an issue where the app crashes on launch
- Fixes an issue where filter buttons are misaligned on iPad after screen rotation (thanks for the feedback!)
- Gets the app ready for some cool new features while this iOS developer is on vacation in January (hope it goes well!)

Happy reading!

2.19.7

Dec 22, 2023

Another round of small fixes & cleanups to close out the year.

- Skip raw URLs in text to speech mode (thanks for the feedback!)
- Fixes an issue where iMessage window gets stuck after you search & share an article
- Fixes an issue where the app crashes on launch
- Gets the app ready for some cool new features while this iOS developer is on vacation in January (hope it goes well!)

Happy reading!

2.19.6

Dec 17, 2023

Small improvements time! Some examples:
- Queue filters are now properly aligned to the margins (thanks for the feedback!)
- Resume reading filter is persisted across sessions
- Fixes a crash when you follow a writer from writer discovery
- Use H key to create an audio highlight when using a hardware keyboard (thanks for the feedback!)

2.19.5

Dec 13, 2023

Check out your weekly reading activity on the You tab.

2.19.4

Dec 11, 2023

Check out your weekly reading activity on the You tab.

2.19.3

Dec 4, 2023

Introducing Rediscover - a new feature that surfaces the insights that you have highlighted in the past.
Rediscover lives in the new You tab. It's also available as a widget.

The new You tab also contains your library folders, with the addition of History folder.
No more struggling to find the last thing that you have just read.

2.19.2

Nov 30, 2023

2.19.1

Nov 18, 2023

Fixes an audio issue where text-to-speech could get stuck at a certain sentence.

2.19

Nov 14, 2023

Fixes an issue where some users temporarily lost access to Matter Premium.

2.18.5

Nov 13, 2023

Fixes an issue where some users temporarily lost access to Matter Premium.

2.18.4

Nov 9, 2023

Fixed a crash when doing full text search.
Fixed an issue where Queue filters were not working if you sort by shuffling.
And other under the hood improvements and maintenance.

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