Matter: Reading App评价分析

Google sign in failed after verification. Apple sign in failed. Email login finally worked. Haven’t even used it yet an already looking at a paywall. No much work, deleted. Do better.

Hi folks, I can’t recommend this app. Downloaded it got a very slick email from the CEO extolling its wonderful virtues. Then a very clever way to upgrade a pro trial. Well, their trial didn’t work so well. And Matter didn’t perform any better than Instapaper frequently coming up with a pathetic excuse that it couldn’t scrape articles from Apple News. Overpriced and Underperformed.

I tried to get it in mt phone. But my email confirmation never arrives. I wrote the company - check spam/junk, which I of course had done. No other help available I gave up and deleted it. After several emails back and forth, they never did anything with the information I gave them April Update I thought I’d give them another chance. Still no email confirmation received

App is okay, however, upon opening it, I was confronted with a subscription offer that promised a trial. Unfortunately, I did not receive a trial, and $14.99 was deducted from my account. Within 5 minutes, I attempted to request a refund from Apple, I was informed that it was not eligible. I cannot endorse any application that conducts business in this manner. I advise you to avoid it, as there are numerous reputable RSS readers available.

It downloads most webpages fine, but the way it formats them is sometimes obnoxious and counterintuitive. I looked past it because they claim in multiple places the app can download PDFs and easily convert them for reading with all the features they advertise. I tried 4 PDFs and only one worked. I tried going premium (used the free trial) and same problem. I emailed their feedback email asking for help and got nothing. I emailed their support email, got nothing. I emailed their CEO, who emails you when you sign up saying to reach out to him with concerns. Did I get a response? Nope. It’s been a week. Don’t waste your time.

I used this app to aggregate articles into a single file to send to my Kindle. Other apps allow single article send and it is very messy. I was enjoying the app; then the update happened. I lost the ability to do the only thing I used the app for. I contacted the company several times but never received a reply. I have Readwise, which is incredibly responsive. Rating a 1 because I couldn’t get help and paid in advance for a year.

maybe it will save an article, but don't rely on it to do so

I used to use this app all the time. Now, despite paying for a subscription, the app doesn’t recognize I’ve paid. This feels like fraud.

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.

Will never use it again. My reading list disappeared after update.

“Matter offers a free service and a paid service.” No, only a paid service.

The 7 day trial doesn’t let you do anything but watch the preloaded video, so you can’t truly see what the app really does. So don’t even offer the trial. Disappointed.

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.

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.

I guess it’s a good app but all the Read Something Wonderful suggestions and every writer in the Top Picks recommendations were men. Why?

Sadly, I cannot invest $80 a year on something that is this buggy. I cancelled my yearly subscription. I can forgive most of the bugs, but… NOT creating my YouTube transcripts so that I can read them? that’s a deal breaker. It’s the main reason I signed up. If you ever fix this, I may return. BUGS: ❌ YouTube transcript not working (16-17 hours) later. Though it says wait 5 minutes. This is EXTREMELY frustrating, to the point of infuriating. It’s my main reason for paying the yearly subscription. Sometimes it will say “something went wrong, please try again later” Out of the 20 YouTube videos I linked, it only transcribed 1. Respectfully as I can, when I say this.. but that’s horrendous. ❌ Very slow and buggy when adding YouTube links, takes within 6-7 seconds for the YouTube video to appear in the list. ❌ When reporting issues, on their report issue feature, it takes about (3-4 seconds) for the app to recognize I am tapping on my keyboard and typing words. So pull up your keyboard and wait about 5 seconds before you can even begin typing. MY SPECS: ✅ Latest iOS update 17.6.1 (9/1/24) ✅ iPhone 11 Pro Max (mint condition) ✅ 80gigs of free memory ✅ 4GB of Ram ✅ WiFi Internet 256mb ⬇️ - - 50mb ⬆️

Disappointed that they say you can either have a free subscription or a premium subscription. It is supposed free for 7 days before you are charged a monthly service. Sorry. Not for me. Either have a free subscription or be open and honest upfront that it is free for 7 days but then you will be charged. I could have not wasted my time.

I connected my Gmail, followed the newsletters I wanted from it, and yet there are many missing articles for many of those newsletters. I see them in my Gmail but they’re nonexistent in Matter. Whatever approach they’re using isn’t working.

The app makes you go through the whole setup process before informing you of the astronomical price of $15 a month. Or $7 if you want to pay for the year upfront of $80. I don’t even pay that much for video streaming services. Oh sure, they give you a free trial but that is just another form of predatory practices. They give you a free trial but you have to remember to cancel it. They hope you will forget to cancel it. At any rate, for that amount of money, I will search my own stuff to read. I don’t need narration.

Very unclear how to cancel the app. Extremely frustrating. Buyer beware.

I am a Patreon member for this app, I like the ui but my main use case is saving Twitter tweets and this app doesnot save them and even worse they don’t even say that it won’t work, whenever u save a tweet link, it says it queued but it won’t show up anywhere on your app. I have given this app enough chances but they never made it work with Twitter. Wierd for an app that’s charging 60$ per year

Feels a bit like a bait and switch, this app isn’t free, it’s $60 a year or $15/month. Not obvious until you are out of the trial period that you don’t even realize your in. The app itself is great, just wish you could at least gather your newsletters and read them without the cost, there is obviously a lot of value in having them audible, just not looking to add another subscription.

I tried it and liked some of its features but I decided I wouldn’t benefit from it. So I went to cancel but there was no way to cancel. After repeated messages I finally got a response. I followed the directions I was given but was billed anyway.

I subscribe to a bunch of newsletters and I thought “wouldn’t it be great if I could just listen to these bad bois?” Matter seemed like a great solution. When I convert the emails to a pdf and save in matter, only some of them actually convert and remain static pdfs. There’s seemingly no rhyme or reason to which ones end up converting (it typically takes a few minutes for it to load as a listenable version). Until they get this sorted out, pretty low rating from me unfortunately:/

So I signed up with the supposed ability to cancel before you have to pay in 7 days. I tried it and by day 3 I wanted to cancel. The button to cancel was disabled. I sent 3 messages within the app requesting to cancel. No response. Today I was chaged $79. Now I was of course able to cancel. I did…well no refunds for me of course I have a year paid for something I dont want.

The articles are a pointless waste of time. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 2 Timothy 2:15

I indicated what I prefer to read, but none of the choices they gave me were anything close to what I had indicated. It’s as if they’re telling me, “we don’t like your choices. Read these instead.” Two stars is a stretch. I appear to have wasted $1.99 for a one month trial.

I have enough apps with content suggestion

I really want to like this app. It is very user-friendly, has a great UX and is just a fun to use when going through a long list of articles I want to read. BUT... Go read their privacy policy. They siphon up a ton of data about users and make no promises on how they use it or won't use it. They ramble something about "legitimate business interest" but it doesn't sit well when paying $60 a year for an app... aka you are still the product. Be careful, and don't give this app any of your logins or passwords, either!

This software is really bad. I have bought a membership for a year. When I opened the software just now, he told me that I was not a member. It's the same as logging out of the account and logging in again. Please refund my money.

If I plan to pay for an app/service…I need MacBook access! Yes, there’s a free level, but free or not, I need MacBook access. I will not proceed forward. I’ll watch from the sideline.

Matter comes to fill the gap after Pocket closed down, and I love its simplicity and useful features. Finding things to read in the discover or related articles section is nice. You can also add newsletters or rss feeds. Adding things to read later is simple as using the share sheet anywhere on iOS or via browser extensions for other devices. With premium you get a natural sounding voice reader, article summaries, highlights, search and no limits on the archive. I like sending links from google news or social sites to fill the download queue for stuff to read later. Wish they’d make an android app for my BOOX devices…

This app without a doubt has the best vocalization capabilities, but it’s pretty poor in terms of enabling you to identify sources within or through the app

This app is a great alternative to doomscrolling, and has helped me read a lot more

I’m a longtime read-later app user, from Feedly to Reeder to Instapaper and beyond. I’ve been using matter since it launched a few years ago, and it’s surpassed them all. I love its ability to redirect newletters so my mailbox stays clean. It allows me to save, favorite, and highlight my favorite articles and newsletters. Its AI “readers” are the most natural and “listenable” I’ve experienced. It provides a beautiful reading experience. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

A widget for unread articles would be a game changer, or the option to buy once. I just can’t justify paying monthly.

I love the concept of the app, but it falls far short of being your go-to reading app. It’s very difficult to get PDFs or text emails into the app. Sometimes the emails are in your queue quickly, and sometimes they don’t show up at all. The browser extension sometimes pulls in the article, and sometimes it only creates a browser link, which is no better than a bookmark. You can supposedly add content via the iOS share menu, but it’s very limited in what can really be shared to it. I’m a paying “pro” user, but there is no response to support questions. They don’t seem to be updating the app.

Great product that allows me to save news articles from multiple sources, and provide text to voice playback from a saved queue. Saving works great with paywalled articles, but the caveat is that if you are on ios, the paywalled article must be brought up in Safari to allow the full article to have text to voice playback. For desktop systems, the Chrome extension works with paywalled articles.

For my use case (listening to articles), this is so much better than readwise reader. Rarely it gets messed up on the TTS.

I’ve tried several different apps but Matter is the prettiest and best interface. I just always go back to Matter.

makes it realy easy and intuitive to have all my newsletters in one spot. reduces clutter and actually makes me wanna read them

Solid and customizable reader, appreciate the Discover tab and being able to follow writers/publications. Support for any and all RSS feeds so I don’t have to rely on newsletter workarounds would be appreciated.

I like what this app has to offer, but I don’t have anything nice to say about the support. I’ve opened multiple tickets with the support team via the Slack channel available via the app and I’ve heard nothing in weeks.

I enjoy it so much.

Devs responded in a timely manner to a complaint I had, so I felt listened to and encouraged by their continuous work to improve the app. Much appreciated!

Hello, I love the articles recommended to me but often you continue to recommend articles that I have already read.

Matter has everything a reader could want. You can select any article and file it to read later. The app also gives you useful reading suggestions based on your previous usage.

I have been using Matter as part of decluttering my life and replacing doom scrolling with more focused reading. Matter works great for this. I would love to subscribe to support them, but $80/year is a bit steep, and I don’t want to pay for AI “features”; I’ll never understand how AI would help me to read. This seems antithetical to reading.

They finally responded. It seems you need to write a bad review for the to pay attention which is a shame. New version is nice, and Matter is probably still the best app to organize your reading, but some key features have gone for no good reason (they confirmed it). A good example is the ability for bulk delete both in your inbox and archive. It seems they assumed people don’t mind accumulating documents, but for many it’s key to keep their archives organized. Hope it comes back. Original review: The app is good, but despite being a paying and loyal customer and their claims of being user oriented, they never answer when you contact them. Good luck if you need support.

I love this app I use it every day

A really thoughtful and featured reader, and even better than what it replaced for me (the discontinued app Pocket).

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!

Longtime Pocket user having evaluated everything I can get my hands on as a replacement! Matter feels like the winner for me. It is a very thought full app which is precisely what I want! Thought full content and more-so an engaging well thought out interaction that feels smart. No wasted moves, space or fluff, while addressing what I want to track beyond the norm. It’s tight - I dig it!

Overall it does a good work but search needs work urgently

Pretty good app. The content is very much lacking. I’m a big proponent of female authors and for whatever reason content from female authors is completely lacking. I’ve “followed” and “favorited” female authors but the content is so narrow that I consistently am not provided with any articles from them. Most of the days out of the week there’s just no options. I’ve falling back to simply finding my own content for which there’s no reason for me to pay for this service anymore.

I’m a few months in now, and this app has become part of my daily routine. There are a few things that could be improved to make it perfect: (1) RSS limitations: with a standard like RSS, I don’t understand why so many legitimate feeds are not recognized (2) sometimes I’m afraid to open an article because I don’t want to be flooded with “since you read…” the next day (3) the reading minutes meter seems to not go away unless you uninstall and reinstall—I just don’t want to see this at all. I’m hoping more updates are coming—haven’t seen any updates in a while.

Been using Matter for a couple months now, switched over from Pocket and I’m loving it! The feed is clean and the keyboard shortcuts for highlighting and notes are super convenient. I’ve especially enjoyed the ability to listen to my articles and cleanly save video and text in one queue. I’d really like the newsletters feature to work better for me. I got it all hooked up with email forwarding, and I can see them come in on the desktop version, but I do most of my reading on my phone, where I cannot find the Inbox. Hoping that this can be added to a menu in the future.

I can’t speak more highly of Matter; for 2+ years now I have been using it to actually read, listen, and reflect, rather than other apps/systems which just help you build a queue but never help you tackle it. Hop on board!

Truly amazing as a reading app. I use it for all my newsletters, long-form articles, you name it.

Gave up another subscription newsletter organizer that I liked better, because of the curated content Matter offers. Quite enjoyed the material to start with but several months in most of the content is on repeat. There are days without a single article I haven’t seen before (other than my newsletter inbox). At this price point and based on what is being advertised, I would have expected more.

This app is dead. Developers are no longer updating the app as frequently. The transcription service no longer works. When you email them, they just tell you that they would look into it. Go find another app

Fdsd

My only request is for an Android app so I can read on my BOOX Palma 🙏

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

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.

The app appears to disable iPhones spoken content accessibility feature, seemingly to incentivize you to purchase a subscription to use Matter’s text to speech. This seems to violate some disability rights. Other than that, phenomenal app and game changer

I did the trial of this app and liked how it asked your interests and then provided you with articles that you would have never known about to read ontop of whatever you have forwarded into the app. I also like that it challenges you to read daily or at least listen...yes, listen! My only issue is the cost. For those of us who aren't in the workforce any longer and living on a budgef, but still want to keep up our mental sharpness by reading, it would be nice if there was another price option.

Been using the app to clip topic specific content and it simply works!

Great app because reader are leader

I’d like to subscribe at $4.99/month and selected that option but matter remained inaccessible.

Really elegant!

This app helps me with a few things. Being able to get all of my favorite authors in one spot, read and grow, and hit upon screen time needs that are slowly dwindling. While other apps completely block you from apps, it’s nice to be able to gain knowledge while pulling back from time draining social media platforms. Thank you for this.

I’ve been using this app for around two weeks and it’s a game changer if you really want to learn and increase your knowledge. I wish I came across this earlier. I particularly love the transcription feature and the ability to note take and highlight while watching.

I was charged immediately for one full month when signing up - when the app was saying there was a free one week trial. Had to reach back to them to get refunded. Apparently it can happen if you subscribe from the App Store from your phone. Was bothersome

Truly valuable read it later app. Saves my favorites where I can find them, provides a continuing flow of interesting writing and knowledgeable discussion.

Despite preferring physical books, I gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised! Found three new favorite writers in just two days. Its user-friendly interface and diverse range of literature keep me engaged, away from mindless scrolling. Highly recommend!

It’s so easy to mindlessly scroll through the internet. Read something wonderful instead.

Excellent app! Best reader ever created. I sincerely hope they consider merging with Artifact News. It be a great way to preserve the best of Artifact in a growing platform like Matter.