Pretty, but not very functional
I didn’t see any way to search for new feeds or add my own url (only browse their directory). There’s no article listing; each shows up full screen and you flip between them. The hiding of the status bar on iPhone X prevents you from having any idea what time it is or how long you’ve been reading. I’m not sure who this app is targeted at, but it’s not a long-term RSS feed reader like me.
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I’d love it to work well but
...there are bugs and I can’t see any place to click and share on Facebook or Twitter or even by email when I find a interesting article. Maybe it’s me missing something but the app should be intuitive. So, two stars for now.
Meh.
1. Can’t import existing feeds from anywhere (like Feedly, for example) ... you take their choice or you manually add feeds one by one.
2. Can’t change their layout to be more headline-dense. Or in any way at all.
3. Subscriptions nets you changing themes and self-spamming emails. Even at a buck a month, this is a ludicrous ask.
Not impressed, particularly in light of many good non-subscription (or free) competitors. Might check back in a few versions, but ... other than the subscription, I’m not seeing anything that makes this product stand out from the crowd.
2. Can’t change their layout to be more headline-dense. Or in any way at all.
3. Subscriptions nets you changing themes and self-spamming emails. Even at a buck a month, this is a ludicrous ask.
Not impressed, particularly in light of many good non-subscription (or free) competitors. Might check back in a few versions, but ... other than the subscription, I’m not seeing anything that makes this product stand out from the crowd.
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Lacking
Lacks in so many areas that I can’t force myself to continue using for more than a couple minutes. Who curated the list of news websites? Why can’t I search for a specific website? Why does an article preview need to take up the entire screen? I fail to see how this iOS version compares at all to the inbox view on Mac OS.
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Solid idea. But...
The app design is awesome but lacking the ability to share stories. The easier feels are buggy and sometimes the app doesn't see when your added the feed. Catorgies are double like movie and movies.. Needs few tweaks back in the oven before releasing.
My new favourite
Disclosure: I was on the beta program for this app.
While it is currently lacking some power user features I find this app to be a joy to use. Its interface makes it easy to casually browse browse your feeds and it looks good on both my iPad Pro and iPhone X.
For me it has replaced flipboard because I can scan my news much faster. Also, there is no forced tie into Facebook.
While it is currently lacking some power user features I find this app to be a joy to use. Its interface makes it easy to casually browse browse your feeds and it looks good on both my iPad Pro and iPhone X.
For me it has replaced flipboard because I can scan my news much faster. Also, there is no forced tie into Facebook.
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Good start. Needs some simple tweaks.
Glad a decent RSS reader seems to be coming along. This is a good start but needs some tweaks to earn my money. Here’s a few.
1) Need to be able to open in Safari. Currently cannot send to Safari, must copy link and then manually open Safari.
2) Preferences has an option to show in reverse order (oldest first); does not appear to be working.
1) Need to be able to open in Safari. Currently cannot send to Safari, must copy link and then manually open Safari.
2) Preferences has an option to show in reverse order (oldest first); does not appear to be working.
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Needs to show full articles
I like the look of this, and I really like the iCloud syncing. But tapping on a feed shows full screen articles (partial articles), which is really unusable. There needs to be a list of the articles in the feed (like the Mac version has), with an indicator on which ones are new or not. And tapping to view an individual article should show the *entire* article. Right now you have to tap through to the source to view the whole article, which kinda defeats the purpose of using rss...
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Potential
It’s a nice app with some real potential. Unfortunately I’ve already had three occasions today where it has completely deleted my rss subscriptions. Icloud sync also doesn’t appear to work even though I have it activated. If these were fixed it would be great.
Overall great
The app is super clean, super organized and really easy to use. Highly recommend
