A Matter alternative, for the links you keep rather than read
Matter is a polished reading app: articles, newsletters, highlights, audio. If you save essays and want to read them well, it does that. ceevo is for everything you save that is not an essay.
Matter turns links into a reading queue. ceevo turns links into folders. If most of what you save is long-form writing, Matter or a similar reader is the better fit. If most of it is tools, references, videos, and things to send people, ceevo is.
- Saving
- Share sheet, extension, newsletter forwarding.
- Paste a link or write a note on the web. Share to ceevo from any app on your phone.
- Organising
- Queue, favourites, tags.
- One level of folders you name yourself. Flat on purpose.
- Reading
- Reader view, highlights, text-to-speech.
- No reader view. ceevo opens the original page.
- Sharing
- Share highlights as images.
- Any folder becomes a public page under your name with one switch.
- Notes
- Notes on highlights.
- Notes are first-class: a note lives next to the links in the same folder.
- Price
- Free tier, paid Premium.
- Free. If paid plans ever come, nothing you saved gets locked.
The reading queue problem
A reading app is a to-do list in disguise. Every unread item is a small debt. That is fine when the items are articles you chose to read, and wrong when they are a Figma plugin, a hotel, and a GitHub repo you might need in March.
ceevo has no queue and no unread state. A folder is a shelf, not a list of obligations. You open it when you need something from it.
What ceevo adds
Folders you name, a note next to the links, and a public page for any folder. The last one is what readers cannot do: you make a folder public and it becomes a page at ceevo.me/you/folder-name that anyone can open without an account.
Use both if you read a lot
Read in Matter, keep in ceevo. They are not really competing for the same link.
Questions
- Does ceevo have highlights?
- No. Write the passage as a note in the same folder if you want to keep it.
- Does ceevo read articles aloud?
- No. ceevo is not a reading app.
- Does ceevo work on iPhone?
- Yes, through the web and the share sheet. A native iPhone app is coming.