Tagged: rss

Web

23 Mar, 2017

Feedbin Improves the Subscribe Flow for New Feeds

Feedbin: Subscribe Improvements

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.

Here’s a GIF of it in action.

Mac

9 Feb, 2017

ReadKit 2.5 Introduces a New Design, Touch Bar Support for New MacBook Pros and other improvements

ReadKit 2.5

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.

iPad / iPhone

7 Feb, 2017

Fiery Feeds Adds Full Support for BazQux & Wallabag

Fiery Feeds Adds Full Support for BazQux & Wallabag

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.

Mac

30 Sep, 2015

Reeder 3 for Mac

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...

iPad / iPhone / Mac

6 Mar, 2015

Breaking — A Today Widget for your Favorite RSS Feeds

Breaking is a new app loving built by the guys at Robocat, the brilliant designers and developers behind several notable iOS apps, most of which have been featured here on Beautiful Pixels. Available for iOS as well as Mac, Breaking allows you to follow the news from your favorite online sources via a Today Widget that you can add to your Notification Center tray. The app is actually pretty simple and straightforward — When you launch the app the first...

iPad

9 Jun, 2014

Unread for iPad

Unread for iPhone is one of the best iPhone apps available today. It provides the best reading experience on the iPhone and is an absolutely joy to use. Today, Jared Sinclair brings us Unread for iPad. It has been a privilege to use Unread on iPad from the early betas and the final product is nearly perfect.

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