Newsify — the beautiful RSS Reader has released Version 4.9 on the App Store this week and introduces a new App Icon, along with support for iOS 11 and watchOS 4. We first wrote about this app back in 2012 and it’s good to see this fresh new icon on the app. Newsify is available Free with Ads on the App Store. About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of post we’re introducing on...
Unread App — the remarkably elegant RSS app for iOS has been acquired again. We’ve been big fans of the app since its release three years ago and even today, it offers an incredible user experience when it comes to reading and consuming your RSS feeds. It features stunning typography, intuitive gestures & 13 different themes to choose from, and offers by far one of the best reading experiences on iOS. The app was originally developed by Jared Sinclair (known...
Feedbin has been my personal favorite choice of feed aggregation services after the death of Google Reader back in 2013. Although several other services have cropped up since then, some even free, the simplicity and elegance of Feedbin has me hooked to it. While I use Feedbin primarily as a feed syncing service between my Macs and iOS devices, and I’m sure most others do too, I do at times hop onto the Feedbin website to use the web interface. I love how Ben continues to improve various aspects of the web version of the service, including some minor things.
In an update earlier today on the Feedbin blog, Ben announced a minor but fantastic change to the new feed subscription workflow. The previous method was cumbersome and required too many clicks and this new method makes things so much easier now.
ReadKit for Mac has been my choice of RSS app for over 3 years now and I spend several hours in a day reading through the content it brings to me via FeedBin and Instapaper/Pocket. However, the app’s development had somewhat stagnated in 2016 with lack of updates and bug fix releases, so much so that I was looking for a replacement. Thankfully, the developer has been working on a substantial update over the last few months and version 2.5 of the app is now ready for the Mac App Store.
ReadKit 2.5 introduces a new design, a new theme and a host of other improvements to the app. The app now sports a unified toolbar instead of the two toolbars at the top and bottom in the previous versions. I like that the Search field has been moved to the top now. This update also introduces support for the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros and adds a new “Black” theme to the app. I do wish there was a way to customize or add your own themes though.
ReadKit 2.5 is a Free Update to existing users and the app is available for $9.99 on the Mac App Store.
I have been a Fiery Feeds user for a little over three years now. The app has been evolving remarkably well since 2013 and continues to add improvements with every update. Today’s release (v1.9) adds full support for the BazQux Reader — the feed sync service that’s slowly and steadily getting more attention, and wallabag — the self-hosted read-it-later service. This release also adds support for on-demand preview images supplied by the server as well as a bunch of other improvements.
Fiery Feeds is available Free on the App Store with a $4.99 IAP to unlock Premium features. This free version of the app was released in October 2016 and the original paid app was renamed to Fiery Feeds Premium.
Reeder has long been one of my favorite apps for Mac. After NetNewsWire died, Reeder was the app that I quickly latched onto and it did a wonderful job of helping me consume my RSS feeds. Over the years, although its development has been slow and I had moved onto ReadKit as my primary RSS app, Reeder has had a special place in my heart, and on my Mac. After about two months of a Public Beta, today marks the...
