Looking for a Matter Alternative?
Matter is a great article reader. Screvi goes further: import highlights from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and physical books, then resurface them with spaced repetition and AI-powered semantic search.
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What is Matter?
Matter is a read-it-later app launched in 2020 that has earned three Apple "App of the Day" honors for its clean design and reading experience. It offers article saving, a newsletter inbox, text-to-speech with human-like voices, social following features, and highlighting. Matter supports saving articles, threads, PDFs, and even YouTube/podcast transcription. While Matter excels at article reading and social curation, it lacks book highlight management, spaced repetition for remembering what you read, and AI-powered semantic search.
Why people look for Matter alternatives
- No support for book highlights: Matter only handles articles, newsletters, and web content
- No Kindle, Kobo, or Apple Books import: no way to bring in your e-reader highlights
- No spaced repetition or review system: highlights are saved but not resurfaced to help you remember
- No AI-powered semantic search across your highlights
- No daily review emails or highlights feed for rediscovering saved content over time
- No AI topic discovery to find connections across your reading
- No physical book scanner for capturing highlights from paper books
Screvi vs Matter: Feature Comparison
Screvi: 23/25 features · Matter: 8/25 features
| Feature | Screvi | Matter |
|---|---|---|
| Save articles from the web | ||
| Distraction-free article reader | ||
| Highlight text in articles | ||
| Personal newsletter inbox | ||
| iOS & Android apps | iOS & iPad, web | |
| Browser extension | ||
| Text-to-speech | ||
| Social listening / following | ||
| Save YouTube & podcast transcripts | ||
| Import Kindle highlights | ||
| Import Kobo highlights | ||
| Import Apple Books highlights | ||
| Import PDF annotations | ||
| Import Twitter/X bookmarks | ||
| Physical book scanner (OCR) | ||
| AI semantic search | ||
| Spaced repetition review | ||
| Daily email digest | ||
| Highlights feed | ||
| AI topic discovery | ||
| AI highlight cleanup | ||
| iOS home screen widget | ||
| AI article summaries | ||
| Tags with colors | ||
| Public API |
Why choose Screvi over Matter
More than read-it-later
Matter handles articles and newsletters. Screvi is a complete highlights manager: import from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, PDFs, physical books, YouTube, Twitter, and more. All your reading in one place.
Remember what you read
Matter helps you save and read articles. Screvi also helps you remember them with spaced repetition review, daily email digests, and a highlights feed that resurfaces your best ideas.
AI-powered semantic search
Search your highlights by meaning, not just keywords. Ask "what did I read about building habits?" and find relevant passages across all your sources, even if those exact words never appear.
Book highlights support
Matter only handles web content. Screvi auto-imports from Kindle (7 regions), Kobo, Apple Books, PDFs, and physical books, making it a true home for ALL your reading highlights.
AI topic discovery
Screvi clusters your highlights into thematic topics across all sources. Discover unexpected connections between books, articles, and ideas that you might never have noticed.
Personal newsletter inbox
Just like Matter, you get a unique email address to subscribe to newsletters. They're automatically saved as articles you can read, highlight, and organize.
Switching from Matter?
You can start using Screvi alongside Matter. Save articles to Screvi going forward with the browser extension, and use Screvi for book highlights, review, and AI search features that Matter doesn't offer.
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Try it with your highlights
Create your account, add your highlights and see how Screvi can change the way you read.