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Matter: 1% Smarter Every Day
Matter is a reading app that brings together various types of content from the internet, such as articles, newsletters, Twitter threads, and PDFs, into one convenient platform. It offers modern tools like natural text-to-speech and fluid highlighting to enhance the reading experience. Matter has been praised for its improvements over previous read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper.
With Matter, users can save full articles, even if they are behind paywalls, and compile Twitter threads into a single article page. It also allows for saving PDFs and YouTube videos. The app is compatible across devices including iPhone, iPad, and the web, and users can send any article to their Kindle with just two taps.
Matter provides a unified inbox for managing subscriptions, allowing users to sync their newsletters by connecting to Gmail. Additionally, users can follow individual writers for their latest posts and add any RSS feed. It offers an elegant reading experience with features like best-in-class article parsing, readability, offline availability, night mode, and human-like text-to-speech. Users can also make fluid highlights and take notes.
Exporting knowledge is made easy with Matter by syncing highlights to popular platforms like Notion, Obsidian, Roam, and Readwise. The app offers both free and Premium services. The free version includes an uncapped read-later library, mobile, and web extensions for saving content, best-in-class parsing and readability, unlimited tags, and the ability to share directly with friends. Matter Premium, in addition to the free features, provides HD text-to-speech for articles, syncing newsletters, subscribing to writers, adding RSS feeds, unlimited highlighting, note-taking, integrations, sending to Kindle, full-text search, and customizable themes and fonts.
Matter Premium is available for purchase on a monthly basis at $7.99 per month, annually at $59.99 per year (with a 38% discount), or for three years at $149.99 (with a 48% discount). Payment is charged to the user's iTunes Account. Subscriptions automatically renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal can be managed in the iTunes Store settings. Users can access their Matter Premium subscription details in the app's Settings page.
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