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The first time I tried Matter, I immediately deleted it. In those days, the app pushed you hard to use its social features. I returned to the app after you could set your saved queue of articles as the default tab, and that time, the app stuck. I liked the reading experience a lot, but the heavy focus on the social angle felt like the kind of thing that could set the app off in a direction I didn’t like at any time. To Matter’s credit, they recognized that the social features were dividing their users and dropped them. In the months since then, the renewed focus on the reading experience has resulted in a series of refinements to the app that have made it my favorite read-later app.
Most Club members probably already have a read-later app or system that they prefer. It’s one of the oldest app categories on the App Store, so instead of covering the basics, I want to focus on the features of Matter that set it apart from other options and those that it does better than its competitors.