Matter: Reading App

This app is faulty, in a way I have not experienced with other apps/programs. The current “monster of the week”, are the AI “voices”, that read articles aloud. For ~a month, selecting between voices has been broken. Instead, there is a single voice, which does a poor job of speaking. For example, “GPT5.1” will be read aloud as “GPA”. The model often confabulates, or makes up gobiltygook. Meaning, that listening while the app is closed, is a great way to not understand what you’re reading. Maybe this would be fine, if the following along while reading aloud feature, worked consistently. But instead, it reliably jumps around the text, causing me to often lose my place in whatever I’m reading. I do not feel like this app is a ‘work of heart’. I feel unseen as a user, having made extensive complaints, over the past two years I have used this app. I stay, because of the obsidian integration. If it didn’t have that feature, I would have left a long time ago. Also, for gods sake, just add functionality to select different highlighter hex codes already!! I’m so sick of the Johnny Harris, piss yellow highlighter! Also, why did you choose perplexly? Please just let me use my Claude API in the app. I never use the AI functionality, because it consistently disappoints. I’m just going to keep ranting, because I’ve got mountains of pent up frustration with this app. There are features that I’m sure could be one shot vibe coded by Gemini 3 pro, that would make the app meaningfully better; that just… don’t exists. I get the minimalist style; I like that about the app! But some “advanced settings” really wouldn’t hurt. For example; highlighter color! Why do emails from OpenAI consistently show up in my feed? Even when it’s “your payment has been processed”. The app feels stagnant. I think there have only been two major changes, in the two years I have been using it. 1. ask AI was added 2. Switched to using 11labs voices Is there a blog, where I can find out what you guys are working on? I feel like a total dick, writing this. Surely there is critical information that I’m missing? Something that’s making development of this app much harder for you? All this being said. I am stuck with you. Because I like this app; it’s a good app, sir. But it’s so frustrating, that bugs that I report, never get fixed!

um, i don’t usually write reviews but every time i click to watch the ‘Getting Started’ video the whole screen goes black and restarts my iphone?

if only Matter was integrated with Natural Reader… oh well. Currently only USA voice reader accents. Wont pay high subscription for half-baked voice experience. Will come back in a year to re-evaluate when my natural reader subscription is running out.

i’ve been looking for a good text to speech app with an RSS feed reader on Google and I found Matter and I haven’t regret my purchase since

Has saved me hours … and I only downloaded the ap 24hrs ago !

Don’t get me wrong, this is lovely looking app. UI is a chef’s kiss. The problem is it just doesn’t work. I’ve tried to save numerous websites using the share shortcut on ios and it just doesn’t appear in Matter when I open the app. Pocket had a great feature whereby if you copied the url of a website and then opened pocket it would ask you if you wanted to save the website to pocket. Does Matter have this function? No it doesn’t. Clear the bugs and this app might actually operate as nicely as it looks.

I’m just a student and this app is really helpful :)

After try this app, I delete my pocket immediately

Matter does a great job of bringing in email subs, read later links and author suggestions. I’d love to see it improve its rss feed, and to integrate subs and read later in a timeline - that way it can be my one stop shop. Integration with Obsidian makes it an awesome app for managing Knowledge

I’ve been using Matter for a few weeks and already know I’ll be using it for a very long time and I will happily pay for it if they go to a subscription model.