SMRY vs Matter

See how SMRY and Matter compare for AI-powered article reading.

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Feature-by-feature comparison

Article extraction

Extract clean article text from any URL

Reading themes

Light, dark, and custom themes

11 themes

Custom themes/fonts

YouTube transcripts

Read YouTube videos as text

Newsletter integration

Read email newsletters in-app

Premium (Gmail sync)

Podcast transcription

Read podcast episodes as text

Premium

Android support

Works on Android devices

Web (any device)

Last updated March 2026

Pricing comparison

See how SMRY and Matter compare on pricing.

Pro

$3/mo

per month (annual)

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Premium

$8/mo

per month

Why people switch to SMRY

More than just another read-it-later app.

Works everywhere

SMRY is web-based — works on any device with a browser, including Android. Matter has no Android app.

63% cheaper

SMRY Pro is $3/mo (annual) vs Matter Premium at $5/mo (annual). AI features included at both tiers.

Free AI features

SMRY offers 20 AI summaries and 20 chats per day for free. Matter locks all AI behind Premium.

No signup required

Paste a URL and start reading with AI features immediately. Matter requires an account.

Frequently asked questions

For reading articles with AI, yes — especially if you're on Android or want free AI features. But Matter has better TTS (60+ HD voices vs 10), newsletter integration, podcast transcription, and native Notion/Obsidian export that SMRY doesn't match yet.

Not yet. SMRY is focused on reading web articles and YouTube transcripts. Newsletter support is on our roadmap.

Matter's Co-Reader is powered by Perplexity and provides contextual questions per paragraph. SMRY uses Llama 3.3 70B for summaries and Gemini 2.0 Flash for open-ended chat. Both let you ask questions — SMRY's chat is more conversational, Matter's is more contextual.

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