Leave a Review An Otter RSS Reader
You can't find any better RSS app than this
I definitely love it for how powerful and simple it is!
Josh, you again did it!!Makwan.BK
Background app refresh
Can’t wait for automatic refresh to come to the app!
However, the background app refresh is not working. I had the same number of unread feeds from what I did twelve hours ago on launch. I pulled down and did a refresh and 30+ articles popped into my feeds. So it appears that is not working.Medicchop28
Developer Response
Hello! Auto refresh is coming is coming in version 1.1.1 later this week 🙂 Background refresh is scheduled by the OS. It will get refreshed at every 30 minutes at the minimum but could take longer. The more you use the app the bigger the priority those refreshes will come. iOS stuff 🤷♂️ And I wanted to have the same webview on Mac as iOS but there is a bug on Mac that didn’t allow me to use the same webview ☹️ Me and my wife also just had a baby so I couldn’t sink all of my time into fixing that the (yet). I do have plans to get some reader view working on Mac though! Thank you so much for the kind review ❤️ I hope you keep enjoying your Otter experience!Not bad for an early release
Already after one update many of the request I and others have been added as well as comlaints being addressed. Updating to 5 stars. Check app update history for what's been addressed.
The reader mode is nicest I've seen so far. You can create folders and move your feeds into them, you can import opml from other apps which maintains folder hierarchy if that app supports folders.
What it needs.
Mark articles read on scrolling past them
Option to hide read articles by default instead of manually hiding all the time.
When clicking on a top level folder it expands the folder clicking the arrow should expand the folder. There is no way to view all stories in a top folder. For example I have a tech folder and have to go to every single sub folder and read the stories I should be able to just click the tech folder and see the stories in that folder.
Needs swipe gestures example swipe right mark read/unread swipe left add to favorite.
When viewing stories there is about a quarter inch of empty space on the left and right making appear almost window boxed. The story headlines should go the width of the screen to see more words in the title.
Need to add an option to sort by oldest and newest first.
If in reader mode hitting the safari button should open in the in app browser instead of leaving the app. If we want to leave the app from that screen the safari button should open in your default browser.
Under notifications there should be an option to show badge count with unread articles.
Should be an option to see favicons to the left of the headline to quickly see at a glance which site posted the story as well as an option to enable images if there is one in the story. Either a small image to the right of the headline or a large image below the headline.
All in all it's a really good start it's just not ready to be my main RSS app for now I'm sticking with Reeder and NetNewsWire. I am going to keep Otter installed and look forward to future updates.Show lessHeftybags
Can't get it to work
Edit: 1.0.4 still won't open my opml and I did email support and never got an answer
Edit 2: got two responses here and still no email from support. Developer seems to care more about reviews than providing support
Original "review":
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Nothing special
This app has only base functionality, it’s slow and looks cheap.
Crashes when l try to import an OPML file.
Now it’s no chance in front of competitors.Il'genio
Crash when I try to import the feeds from the opml file.
As a new app, I hope it becoming better and better. I give this review just to tell the developer the bug I am suffering. Know it from Michael Tsai’s blog. I trust him, and download it. Give me the chance to use it please.duduwei
Developer Response
Hello! This importing should be fixed in version 1.0.4. There was a small bug but I couldn't get it out fast enough due to an issue with uploading builds to the App Store. Please feel free to email me with any issues in the future :) I'd be happy to help.Crashes
Every time I try to import a Feedly OPML file on my iPad the app crashes.jcherepy
Golly gee this app is amazing!
Like woah... it’s the perfect amount of RSS features! It’s not too much. Not too little. Super clean. Easy to use and understand.
You gotta get it!joshdholtz
Clean and no ads.
I will pay you .99 cents a year to keep this app ad free and not bloat it!
Great release and congrats on the success!PhatSlimBoi
Love the minimal design
Love the minimal design. Would like slightly more if there was a share shortcut by long pressing an individual item. Otherwise I agree it’s the okayest RSS reader. Will keep using it. I like the iCloud sync.Johnlovesdata
