[codq]

As someone who pays a yearly subscription for Readwise, I have a hard justifying that price when Omnivore excels at that core functionality entirely for free.

Matter is another paid read-it-later app who's lunch Omnivore is eating, though they seem to be shipping useful features (podcast transcript parsing, send-to-Kindle, etc.) much faster than Readwise.

Tough time to be a for-profit reading app these days, when options like Omnivore exist.

[1123581321]

Why do you pay for Readwise? They must offer something different.

[codq]

I wanted something more advanced than Pocket, which integrated with my Obsidian vault and had better highlighting features and voice, so it was a choice between Matter and Readwise Reader.

I went with Readwise because they were a bootstrapped company vs VC-funded Matter, but now I'm starting to wish I went with Matter because they've been shipping meaningful updates more reliably.

Also, I interviewer with Dan from Readwise and he totally ghosted me, so I may be a little bitter about that, ha.

[philips]

Not OP but I pay for Readwise because it works and this volunteer effort funding model always makes me nervous.

https://docs.omnivore.app/about/pricing.html