A new approach to the popular read-later apps
Free, with IAPs (Premium: £7.99/$7.99month, or £59.99/$59.99/year, or £149.99/$149.99 for 3 years)
FROM hq.getmatter.com NEEDS iOS 15/iPadOS 15 or later
You can customise the appearance of the Matter app to suit your needs.
Read-later apps are hardly thin on the ground. Instapaper, GoodLinks, Pocket and Safari’s in-built Reading List option are the current leaders, but Matter takes a new and different approach.
Available as an app for iOS and iPadOS and an extension for Safari and other web browsers on the Mac, Matter uses Apple’s ubiquitous Share button to save an article. It then appears in the Matter app in your queue, from where you can read it.
A saved article in Matter is generally a more comfortable read than on a web page; no tedious pop-ups, annoying adverts or intrusive links to other articles. Relevant photographs are usually retained, though they’re sometimes missed. Where this happens, you can tap an icon and return to the article on its website. There’s no problem saving articles from behind a paywall either, as long as you’ve subscribed to the website in question, and you can change the app’s appearance (fonts, background and so on) to suit your tastes.
You organise your saved pieces with tags, sync with your other devices to the furthest point read and have a piece read to you by a natural-sounding audio player. You can also save YouTube videos, and export articles as PDFs. And, very handily, save the first post in a Twitter thread and the entire thread is sent to your queue. Pay for a monthly or yearly subscription a
