I found the general feature set to be similar, but Pocket has pretty decent article discovery/curation. I now use Pocket exclusively.
The only downside is that a decent chunk of their content (~5%) is from Business Insider, and there is no way to mute/hide a source (News Republic offers this). But they've got plenty of good sources (NYT, New Yorker), and a pretty good recommendation algorithm.
Not sure if you're talking about this but Pocket recently launched Pocket Explore - it's a little nicer than the "Recommended" tab in dashboard. https://www.getpocket.com/explore/
Also - If you're looking for discovery/curation then you'd probably be interested in what I'm doing - GGather.com. Right now it's in private beta - but you can join on https://beta.ggather.com
The only downside is that a decent chunk of their content (~5%) is from Business Insider, and there is no way to mute/hide a source (News Republic offers this). But they've got plenty of good sources (NYT, New Yorker), and a pretty good recommendation algorithm.