Feedly
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
- Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
- Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
- Team boards for collaborative research
Compare Feedly and Matter side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
A curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
Here's how Feedly and Matter compare across the features people actually look for. They share 12 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Feedly | Matter |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox | |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear |
| Save from email | Premium | |
| Save tweets | Quoteshots + X integration | |
| Save YouTube videos | Via channel feed | Premium; with transcription |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | ||
| Save audio files | Podcast episodes | |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | Premium | |
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Pro | Premium |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | ||
| Full-text search | Pro | Premium |
| Semantic / AI search | Pro+ (Leo) | |
| Highlights | Unlimited on Premium | |
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | |
| Tags | Boards | |
| Collections | Boards | Partial |
| Public sharing | Quoteshots for individual quotes | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | Pro | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | ||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | |
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | Pro+ (Leo) | Premium (AI Co-Reader) |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | Partial | Partial |
| Send to Kindle | Premium |
Feedly is free, paid from $6.99/mo and Matter is free, paid from $8/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.
Free
Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.
Pro
Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.
Pro+
Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.
Enterprise
Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.
Free
Unlimited library, web + mobile extensions, parsing, unlimited tags.
Premium
HD text-to-speech, AI Co-Reader, RSS feeds, newsletter inbox, unlimited highlights, Kindle send, integrations.
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the web, with a free tier capped at 100 feeds and Pro/Pro+ plans that layer on AI summaries (Leo), team boards, web alerts, and enterprise intelligence. Pro is $6.99/mo, Pro+ is $12.99/mo (annual billing only), and Enterprise covers the threat and market intelligence verticals at custom pricing. The product has spent the last several years pivoting from consumer RSS to a serious monitoring and research platform. The free tier is still a legitimate RSS reader; the paid tiers are increasingly aimed at analysts, PR teams, and security researchers who need to track topics across thousands of sources.
Matter is a read-later app that leans hard on typography, audio, and AI as a co-reader. The free tier covers unlimited saves, the parser, mobile and web extensions, and unlimited tags. Premium at $8/mo or $60/yr adds HD text-to-speech, an AI Co-Reader that summarises and explains, full-text search, RSS feeds, newsletter syncing, unlimited highlights, integrations, and Kindle send. The reading UI is one of the nicest in the category. The team is small, which shows in a smaller feature set than Readwise Reader but also in a more coherent product.