On the Cusp of A New Read-It-Later App Era
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On the Cusp of A New Read-It-Later App Era
I’ve been using read-it-later apps since they first appeared on the scene and RSS services for even longer. So, when Matter launched its public beta and Readwise published a long post about how it’s building a modern reading app, it got me thinking. What should a reading app look like in 2021?
I started using Instapaper before it was an app. Back then, it was a web app for reading saved articles in a browser. It’s not that Marco Arment picked the web over the iPhone for the app, it’s that there wasn’t an App Store yet.