Useless
This app hasn’t been updated in a year, and the only reviews are from two years ago, so it’s clearly neglected and it shows. The reading reminders work for a day or so and then stop, requiring a reboot, but then the problem happens again. Ad infinitum.
Syncing Never Implemented
Despite an initial tweet from the lead developer promising a fix for the syncing problem, it has been almost a year and no resolution has been delivered. I subscribed to the pro plan of Alfred in May 2022 for the syncing feature, but it has never worked properly. It was a featured heavily advertised within the app, but never implemented. I regret investing my time and money into this service as it has been a frustrating experience from the beginning. I advise against using Alfred until these issues are addressed and resolved -- and, honestly, I would love a full refund.
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Alfread makes reading a pleasure
Lovely app with a great clean UI. I love being able to send news articles from the web or an app to Alfread so that when I get more morning coffee I have some great articles to read. You can toggle between article view (reader) and the web view. You can copy/paste text, share article, favorite it, etc.
I would love to see is support for Apple News. I pay $10 a month to Apple but it doesn’t bring the article into Alfread (just a link to the source which won’t load if behind a paywall).
Hoping the developers are doing well. Would love to have paid upgrade features for highlighting the text while reading out loud, the ability to look up words, etc.
I would love to see is support for Apple News. I pay $10 a month to Apple but it doesn’t bring the article into Alfread (just a link to the source which won’t load if behind a paywall).
Hoping the developers are doing well. Would love to have paid upgrade features for highlighting the text while reading out loud, the ability to look up words, etc.
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Fatal Flaw
I want to give this a higher rating, but it simply isn’t working for me. Originally, it worked great and fast, but over time, as I added more articles, had several in progress, and ticked off more and more, the app stalled and got slower. Eventually it took 20+ seconds to launch. Then it started to force quit between articles. Then it stopped launching in general. Now I can’t even get back the articles I’ve lost because the app won’t launch (which is half of why I wanted to use Alfread in the first place - so I would never lose articles from other random app shutdowns). I only have an iPhone 7, so maybe my phone is partly to blame. I also read a TON of articles, so maybe the app wasn’t built for so much content. Anyway, fantastic idea in theory, but in practice it gets bogged down. Fix this force quit/slowdown problem and the app deserves 5 stars
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Updated my review to 4 stars after developer interaction
The developer kindly explained to me an alternate way to disconnect my pocket account after my recent bad review. i appreciate them taking the time and am changing my review to 4 stars based on that interaction alone.
