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Shihab Mehboob

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Can’t handle more than 1 feed

Such a shame the ai summary is an amazing feature and so useful, however they have these predetermined categories that you have to unselect and when you add a custom feed plus a personalised predetermined feed nothing loads. It’s so disappointing. Also having a search function that will add news sources based on their name only would be really smooth and make it quicker and easier to get started as importing a bunch of rss feeds is a nightmare.

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Sharnzie

a month ago

Need better filtering

The stories are not curated at all. You’d have to do a lot of work to make it yours.

Dexter Lively Morgan

a month ago

Takes over .ics files

It automatically becomes the default handler for .ics files so Calendar events don’t open in the correct app.

Edward R.

a month ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the constructive feedback. I will work on a fix for this very soon. Thank you, Shihab

Very well designed and thought out. App

It is well designed without needed log in. It’s Ai implementation is very well made and thought of. Has very good and grateful free options but if you want more it has a one time purchase option, which is welcomed.

JamesBond007?

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the very kind feedback. This made my day. Thank you, Shihab

Ugly app

I’m not a big fan of how the feeds are displayed in the boxed squares. It seems like the developers could use some modern design skills to improve the app’s appearance.

USA36

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the constructive feedback. You can head over to the app's settings page and change the default style of news articles, picking from a variety of different ones, many of which don't have a 'cards' style appearance. Hope this helps! Thank you, Shihab

TV app is not working..

The app works great on iPhone, but the TV app is in a perpetual state of loading…

Please fix!

Thank you

shortschwartz

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the constructive feedback. I will work on a fix for this very soon. Thank you, Shihab

Poor UI on iPad

Update:

I tried the free trial period and have determined that the AI summaries are very poor. They don’t summarize the main point of the article. It merely summarizes the beginning of articles which often do not get to the main point of the article in the first few paragraphs.

The iPad still has the same horrendous UI with no customization in the app.

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I continually do not understand why RSS apps don’t use the full iPad screen in portrait orientation for reading articles. It should at least be an option to hide the sidebar. This issue alone makes it a hard pass from me.

This app looks good at first, but after just a few minutes you realize how restrictive it is. It doesn’t allow you to hide categories and you can’t customize feeds beyond hiding them. It also doesn’t allow adding any feeds either as far as I can tell.

And a personal nitpick of mine: I much prefer opening articles in Safari Reader view by default. It's a better UX in my opinion and provides consistency across the OS. It should at least be offered as option as some other apps do.

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Sofa King Cynical

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the constructive feedback and suggestions. I will take these onboard and reimagine the portrait layout for iPad to make better use of space. You can hide categories via the manage section, and you can hide or remove feeds from there too via long-press Context Menus. You can also add feeds by pasting URLs into the manage section there, or from the Share Extension via Safari and across your device. There's also a settings option to open articles in Safari reader mode directly when tapping to view them. Hope this helps! Thanks, Shihab

Wish it would run on Big Sur

I like this app on iOS, it works well and is a welcome addition to my iPhone and iPad.

I do wish that it was not restricted to OS 13 , as I have 2 devices limited by their age and Intel chipsets to Big Sur (11.7.10)

If it would run on my Mac, I would definitely give 5 stars...

Steve264

2 months ago

Great apps

Love the interface. The next toggle is really noice. A lot of sources. The AI summary is a cool feature. Great job!!

KevLee123

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for the kind and constructive feedback. This made my day. Thanks, Shihab

Great design and interesting functions, but still not a good app

I want to love this app since it’s beautiful design and interesting AI functions really catch my eyes. However, some buggy problems and unacceptable limitations makes it not a good app.

First, it seems like too quick to sync everything before I modify it, which cause the initial feeds when install and I deleted in on device always sync and restored to another devices which I deleted them, and now I had to disable iCloud sync to solve the problem.

Second, for some feeds (for example, CBC News), I don’t know why the app never load first picture in article to thumbnail and just leave a blank thumbnail to the list. If the developer believe this is feed’s problem, the I bet it is not since other RSS platforms don’t have such problem for same feed.

And lastly, which makes me decide delete this app and leave 1 star, is the limitation for free plan is unacceptable. It is common today that developer use subscriptions to let users enjoy premium features, but limited 20 articles for free plan is ridiculous! If this app focus on its AI feature, then the premium subscription should focus on more AI features, not the basic features only can read 20 articles that kills the app’s chance to compete with others.

As I said, this app looks great, both in appearance and AI functions. However, bugs and free plan makes it is not worth to keep since there are many other RSS readers better than this exist.

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